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Swamp Notes: Trump’s big play to save steel production
US President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on steel to 50 per cent this week. He’s also allowing Japan’s Nippon to buy the US Steel Corporation. The m…
1 year, 1 month ago
Trump and Xi break the ice
US President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping agreed to launch a new round of high-level trade talks, the European Central Bank cut interes…
1 year, 1 month ago
Bulgaria moves into the Eurozone
Apple’s rollout of artificial intelligence services in China with Alibaba is being held up, Wells Fargo faces an uphill battle to catch up with its r…
1 year, 1 month ago
Mexico’s new supreme court
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof resigned after far-right leader Geert Wilders walked out of his coalition government, Mexico’s new supreme court is …
1 year, 1 month ago
Trump’s push to privatise Fannie and Freddie
Elon Musk’s xAI is launching a $300mn share sale that values the group at $113bn, and China’s property sector woes are compounded by tariff worries. …
1 year, 1 month ago
South Korea plots a post-coup future
Private equity dealmaking around the world slowed down in the second quarter of 2025, and South Korea holds elections on Tuesday after months of poli…
1 year, 1 month ago
Swamp Notes: Do Republicans still care about debt?
Republicans are often known as the party of fiscal responsibility. This week, Swamp Notes unravels the US House of Representatives’ “big, beautiful” …
1 year, 1 month ago
Trump’s tariffs in legal limbo
The White House is fighting court rulings that US President Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariff scheme is illegal, and a former Goldman Sachs bank…
1 year, 1 month ago
The challenge to Delaware’s corporate dominance
A US court invalidated President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff scheme yesterday. Nvidia reported a nearly 70 per cent surge in quarterly rev…
1 year, 1 month ago
Rio Tinto’s surprise CEO hunt
US stocks jumped yesterday after President Donald Trump said trade talks with the EU were headed in a "positive" direction, and McKinsey cut 10 per c…
1 year, 1 month ago