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Donald Trump is still demanding higher interest rates.

Trump will be furious but his man’s hands are tied

A surprising jump in the latest jobs figures is good news for America but it spells doom for one of the US president’s biggest wishes.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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Donald Trump has backed down on his threats to strike Iranian energy facilities, sending oil prices down and Wall Street up.

Oil traders are too optimistic about a Trump ‘victory’ in Iran

The outline of a deal to end the war with Iran is emerging, but its aftermath will be higher oil prices and the humiliation of the Trump administration.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Trump has made things very difficult for his new Fed chair.

Trump has handed his man a poisoned chalice

Donald Trump has finally got what he wanted, with Kevin Warsh taking over as head of the Federal Reserve. But the president’s actions will make it difficult for his hand-picked choice to deliver on his promise.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Australia is passing on a huge amount of debt to future generations.

Our $1 trillion debt doesn’t scare markets – but it still has a cost

Markets appear unfussed about a looming milestone for public debt. Should taxpayers be a bit more concerned about it?

  • Clancy Yeates
Earlier this month, Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired his AI group, xAI, which gave the combined entity a valuation of $1.75 trillion.

Dreaming big: Elon Musk’s $2.5 trillion vision is about to become reality

The prospectus for the sharemarket float of SpaceX has been filed. The mega IPO’s real value lies in the eyes and hopes of the beholders, and their faith in Elon Musk,

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump.

Trump’s mood swings are holding the world’s financial system hostage

Donald Trump’s war has been a disaster on every level and now the oil shock it created is mushrooming into a wider financial crisis.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Donald Trump’s summit meeting with Xi Jinping failed to produce a concrete offer of help from China to re-open the strait

Trump faces a reckoning as the markets start to wobble

The US president returned home from his trip to China without the main thing markets wanted.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
President Donald Trump promised to fill the US strategic petroleum reserve “right to the top” when he took office. Yet he failed to do so even when prices were low and the cycle was his friend.

The cracks are widening in Trump’s America

The economic growth the US is generating this year is built on a shaky foundation that could fall apart very quickly.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Jerome Powell’s decision to hang around rather than depart quietly will inevitably incense Trump, who has said he will fire Powell if he didn’t retire when his term as chair ended.

Trump will be furious as an old foe digs in his heels

Fed chair Jerome Powell has long been one of Donald Trump’s favourite targets. But he might have the last laugh after a historic move that will incense the president.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump.

Wall Street is playing a very dangerous game with Trump

Wall Street is operating in a parallel universe to the one its peers are in as the war rages on. If these two worlds collide, the aftershocks could be violent.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz