Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China has planted its red flag across Latin America this century, displacing the US as the main trading partner in South America and investing more than $130bn in everything from ports to copper mines. Now … Read more
The tariff fees are typically paid on a product’s declared value rather than the retail cost. So a $170 price bump could be close to what the company’s US arm will pay to import the Watch 3 in the midst of a trade war. Many technology firms have attempted to stockpile products in the US … Read more
While Nintendo could theoretically avoid tariff impacts by moving Switch 2 production into the US, Wedbush’s Ives pointed out that the process would cost “tens of billions of dollars” and require “four to five years” to get a US factory of that scale up and running. Even then, the individual parts to make consoles like … Read more
Are US president-elect Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs an admission of American economic defeat, a tacit acknowledgement that US manufacturers can no longer compete with foreign rivals and must now find protection behind tariff walls to meet domestic demand? It seems so. Moreover, if Trump’s use of the tariffs as a weapon turns out to … Read more
Though 2025 won’t mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How many of these moon landings will succeed? Will the number top the two-ish (one of which made a heckuva comeback) last year? … Read more