President Donald Trump has hosted top investors for one of his cryptocurrency projects at his luxury golf course in Northern Virginia. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump rewarded top investors in one of his cryptocurrency projects with a swanky dinner on Thursday night, an event that showed the ascendance of an emerging financial industry —
Share Trump administration blocks Harvard’s ability to enroll international students The Trump administration has halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students amid an ongoing standoff between the government and the Ivy League school. Harvard has refused to adhere to a set of demands issued by the Trump administration’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism that included sweeping reforms to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cyber attacks, such as that carried out on Marks and Spencer (M&S), are not uncommon. They are events that are increasing in number and sophistication, making them a big challenge for businesses — and what’s
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump rewarded top investors in one of his cryptocurrency projects with a swanky dinner on Thursday night, an event that showed the ascendance of an emerging financial industry — and also the president’s willingness to mix public office with personal profit. Some 220 of the biggest investors in the $TRUMP meme
We talk a lot on this program about the yield on the 10-year T-note. That’s the interest rate on U.S. government Treasury bonds that investors hold for ten years. But a different bond has been in the news this week, and that’s the 30-year Treasury note. Yields on 30-year bonds rose above 5% earlier this
It’s the second stretch this spring that stocks and bonds, along with the dollar, have slumped in sync — a rare trifecta we last saw in April when Trump’s tariffs spooked investors. “They were getting yippy,” Trump said of investors as he explained his decision last month to delay so-called reciprocal tariffs, a move that
US stock futures edged cautiously higher on Thursday as investors worried about the US debt pile braced for a looming House vote on President Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill. S&P 500 futures (ES=F) nudged up roughly 0.2%, while contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) added about 0.3%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) clung
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. American exceptionalism in markets is starting to feel like a weird dream. At the end of 2024, this was all any investor could talk about. It was deemed a nailed-on certainty that US stocks would
How much cash to hold is one of the trickier questions in investing. There are good arguments both for being fully invested and for keeping some dry power on the sidelines, and the volatility of the current stock market with a trade war brewing and the risk of a recession rising is causing some investors
With many investors looking to park their cash in higher-earning accounts, Ankur Nagpal, who founded and exited Teach:able, is jumping into the fray. His fin-tech startup Carry is officially rolling out Smart Yield, an alternative to traditional high-yield savings accounts, today. It has been testing the product for a little under two weeks, he says.