What the f**ck happened @minkfossa.bsky.social? ⚽ 🤯

🇺🇸 Washington is funding a "crusade to save Europe" The US State Dept is deploying a fund to Maga-aligned think-tanks to challenge "tyrannical" UK safety laws and EU tech regulations DC, it seems, is now funding the opposition of its own closest allies 🤔 FT: www.ft.com/content/f869...

🚨 Bitcoin dips below $70,000, wiping out its post-election gains After surging following Trump’s victory in November, the rally has fully unwound #BTC #Bitcoin #Crypto

🇺🇸 🎬 The new #Melania documentary has divided opinion, creating a very odd star-rating distribution on IMDb -- 87% of users rated it 1 star while a not insignificant 9% gave it a perfect 10 Southern females over 55 made up 72% of the opening-day audience, notes HR IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt3529...

💰 Bitcoin slides to its lowest level since the April tariff shock That matters because the fortunes of crypto-heavy buyers like Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) are tightly bound to bitcoin’s price If the sell off continues, Monday's open is going to be interesting... #BTC #bitcoin #crypto

Insane… #Brexit

🇺🇸 Tesla trims car line-up in pivot to AI as annual revenue falls for first time Tesla said it will scrap its Model S and X vehicles and invest $2bn into Elon Musk’s xAI as the company shifts focus from cars to AI and robotics FT www.ft.com/content/78d5...

Including charts from @raydouglas.bsky.social showing how the market has shifted to anticipate a higher-than-expected growth and inflation path as every policy lever is pulled www.ft.com/content/8cbb...

🇰🇷 Korean automakers slip after Trump threatens 25% tariffs on South Korea Hyundai fell as much as 4.8% in early trading, but overall the reaction’s been pretty muted. It appears that Trump's pronouncements may no longer pack the same punch. Even the Kospi index is up FT www.ft.com/content/9982...

🥇 Gold hits $5,000 for the first time, touching $5,050 in early trading The surge follows heightened geopolitical tensions last week, propelling the haven asset to a weekly gain of more than 8% -- its biggest weekly jump since 2008 #Gold #Markets #Geopolitics

Memory chipmakers are the new hot stocks in the AI trade as the Mag 7 rally fizzles Supply shortages have unleashed "eyewatering" gains for the once unsexy sector — and billions in profits for some hedge funds Read here: as.ft.com/r/fabb2746-3... with @tim.fo, charts by @raydouglas.bsky.social

🇺🇸 Democrats threaten government shutdown after Minneapolis killing Such a move could possibly delay closely-watch data releases, such as those published by the Bureau of Labour Statistics

🇺🇸🇨🇦 Here we go again… Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs after Carney agreed with China to lift trade barriers on EVs and canola 🥱

The Taco trade has eaten itself - Long View column by @katie0martin.ft.com. Graph by @raydouglas.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/5c1a...

The "buy gold" people have their day in the sun as US policy rattles the dollar. Data viz by @raydouglas.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6d7a...

🇺🇸 🇪🇺 Trump drops European tariff threat as he touts ‘future’ Greenland deal This, one hopes, is a good thing 🤞 FT www.ft.com/content/1369...

🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 This is a fairly calibrated response from Scandinavian investors to Trump's threats of tariffs over Greenland The falls across these indices are modest, notes @rachel-rees.bsky.social and Emily Herbert FT www.ft.com/content/8d2b...

🇳🇴 Donald Trump links Greenland pursuit to failure to win Nobel Prize This is what he told Norway's prime minister... FT www.ft.com/content/ff64...

🇺🇸 When in doubt, head to the havens... Gold and silver have just leapt to record highs following Trump's tariff threats over Greenland. Spot gold hit a fresh all-time high of $4,689.39 while silver touched $94.08

🇺🇸 The Trump administration is asking countries to contribute at least $1bn in order to secure a permanent spot on his new Board of Peace — a possible “alternative, or rival, to the UN, which [Trump] has long criticised” Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.

🇪🇺🇺🇸 Trump to hit Europe with 10% tariffs until Greenland deal is agreed “The new levies would apply to France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and would rise to 25% in June” FT www.ft.com/content/6055...

🇺🇸 Trump plans to sue JPMorgan, the largest US bank by assets, for “inappropriately debanking me after the January 6th protest…”

🇺🇸 Kevin Warsh emerges as the bookies’ favourite for Fed chair after Trump plays down the chances of nominating Kevin Hassett Warsh’s name now tops many lists as markets and strategists speculate on the next Fed leader FT www.ft.com/content/ef71... #FederalReserve #FedChair #Markets #Warsh

🇺🇸 Shares in US credit card issuers slide after Trump calls for a 10% rate cap The US president proposed capping credit card interest rates at 10%, to take effect on Jan 20 and last one year FT www.ft.com/content/5b1e... #Markets #Credit #InterestRates #Trump

🇺🇸 Haven asset gold hits a record high after US prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into Fed chair Jay Powell, stoking fresh concerns about central bank independence FT as.ft.com/r/92f78904-b... #Gold #FederalReserve #JayPowell #Markets

🇺🇸 2025 marked the weakest year for US job creation outside of a recession since 2003 Non-farm payroll growth slowed to a crawl in 2025, highlighting a sharp deceleration even without a formal downturn #USEconomy #JobMarket #Payrolls #EmploymentData #LaborMarket #NonfarmPayrolls

🇺🇸 US economy undershoots expectations to add just 50,000 jobs in December What's initially striking is the hefty revision to October's numbers, which have been revised down from -105,000 to -173,000 FT www.ft.com/content/026e... #JobsReport #USEconomy #LabourMarket

UK gloom overdone - from a markets PoV anyway - says Caxton CEO >> Markets signal a brighter UK future after lost decade www.ft.com/content/9217...

🇺🇸 Are we seeing the first real cracks in OpenAI’s dominance? ChatGPT’s global traffic share just slipped below 65% for the first time in January, per Similarweb There are also broader signs of weakness in the sector, with daily visits to AI tools falling back to late-summer levels #AIBubble

🇻🇪 🇺🇸 One user on Polymarket made more than $400,000 betting that Maduro would be out by January 31, 2026, building a roughly $32,500 position while the contract was trading at around 7 cents

🇬🇧 Best year for UK stocks in 16 years In a rare bright spot for Britain, London's blue-chip benchmark ended 2025 up more than 20%. The FTSE 100 even beat Wall Street's S&P 500 #FTSE100 #UKStocks #Markets

🇺🇸 US measles cases top 2,000 -- a three-decade high The surge in 2025 now puts the US at risk of losing its globally recognised measles “elimination status” #PublicHealth #Measles #CDC

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Groundhog day... 🤨 FT www.ft.com/content/0072...

This amazing animation by @raydouglas.bsky.social shows just how many $tns in value US big tech companies gained this year - and how Nvidia doubled its market cap April-Oct to leapfrog to the top More @financialtimes.com 2025 markets charts to go with your mince pies here as.ft.com/r/d8b0748f-6...

Bitcoin and Gold this year. #markets #investing #investors #bitcoin #gold @financialtimes.com

🇺🇸🇳🇬 Donald Trump says US struck Isis targets in Nigeria over attacks on Christians FT www.ft.com/content/f095...

⚽ 🚀 I should be surprised by Fifa’s World Cup ticket pricing but I'm not... FT www.ft.com/content/3c9c... #Fifa #WorldCup2026 #football

🇬🇧 I was not expecting that… The Bank of England is on TikTok, with governor Andrew Bailey “answering your questions”

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Crucially, “Oracle will oversee the algorithm that recommends videos in users’ feeds” and that’s the secret sauce that has made the Chinese network so successful www.ft.com/content/7a77...

🇺🇸 Tariffs were supposed to bring back manufacturing to the US but there's little evidence of that yet... FT www.ft.com/content/17a1...

🇰🇳 Can't fathom why billionaires get a bad rap... 🤔 "Destiny is part of a trend in which wealthy figures in technology and crypto try to establish their own, more libertarian, territories, known as the 'network state' movement," writes @joshspero.ft.com FT www.ft.com/content/cd17...

New🍿📉: Netflix originals are now rated lower than rivals on IMDb — although things have improved since 2022 (funnily enough, I think I cancelled my subscription that year). Interactive version here if you want to see the individual titles: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Rates traders position for a turn in the cycle, with hikes beginning to be priced for several big economies next year. US increasingly looks the outlier as.ft.com/r/c5f820a3-6...

US widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes—“US growth is largely dependent right now on AI and AI-related capex driving wealth,” said Rebecca Patterson, a senior fellow… www.ft.com/content/8beb... @senojerialc.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Per the FT: “An Atlanta Federal Reserve analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that, after years of above-trend growth, pay for America’s lowest earners has slowed more sharply than for the highest.” And this as the US labor market risks weakening further. #economy #wages #inequality

America’s widening economic divide endangers Trump’s midterm hopes on.ft.com/4rzRNDE

🇺🇸 US private employers shed 32k jobs in November November's slowdown was "led by a pullback among small businesses", said Dr Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP Companies with fewer than 50 employees shed 120k jobs -- the largest one-month decline since May 2020 FT www.ft.com/content/7d41...

🇺🇸 Republican Matt Van Epps wins Tennessee House race but by a reduced margin Trump carried the seat by 22 percentage points a little over a year ago NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

🇬🇧 Pro-Brexit newspaper makes (partial) U-turn? Warner's words aren't quite the climbdown the headline suggests, with lines like "... its economic opportunities have so far been squandered". Still, the column marks a rare admission of #Brexit’s failures Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...