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GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The debt limit is still a thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus copper tariffs]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b1d70ab7-b679-4ff0-94db-15fb2c046626</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b1d70ab7-b679-4ff0-94db-15fb2c046626</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 05:30:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ditch snobbery about secondary listings to revive London, says CBI chair]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rupert Soames calls for more ‘vroom vroom’ in the promotion of the London Stock Exchange to overseas companies]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/738e2a03-7f1c-4f05-83dc-1b421976038f</link><guid isPermaLink="false">738e2a03-7f1c-4f05-83dc-1b421976038f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:03:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denmark and Finland reject more common EU debt ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The two countries back joint borrowing to boost defence spending, but oppose it for other purposes]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/45592d3f-c243-4108-9e9d-7c5ff0387d0e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">45592d3f-c243-4108-9e9d-7c5ff0387d0e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:33:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asset Management: BlackRock’s troubled history in private credit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus, investors snap up gilts, ‘buying the dip’ and the best summer books of 2025]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/7e25ad41-38ad-4945-b26a-c9d7ea5fb6ec</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7e25ad41-38ad-4945-b26a-c9d7ea5fb6ec</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 05:00:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors pile into tokenised Treasury funds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stablecoin issuers and traders are attracted by yields on offer and potential use as collateral in some derivatives transactions]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/24133257-62eb-41f5-9778-0be200fd3b7d</link><guid 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unpredictability rattles the markets  ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/f5392196-726d-4ede-8c8d-72a5ad8a2f9b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f5392196-726d-4ede-8c8d-72a5ad8a2f9b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 04:00:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nervy markets put Reeves and Starmer on notice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investors are getting fed up of being used by governments around the world as a low-cost cash machine]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ce1d3967-62a3-4871-aef0-079a26bd0d6c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ce1d3967-62a3-4871-aef0-079a26bd0d6c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:00:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investor fright over Reeves’ tears shows fragility of UK finances      ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Market fears that replacing chancellor would imperil fiscal rules  ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a000f4d8-8032-42a0-8cc2-7105fbdd7c26</link><guid 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03 Jul 2025 11:35:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brussels to seek more joint debt in EU budget plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[European Commission to propose mechanism to issue common bonds to fund member states in emergencies]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/2f12781a-c087-4884-a6ae-92479fa20a3d</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2f12781a-c087-4884-a6ae-92479fa20a3d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:07:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan’s great unsticking has begun]]></title><description><![CDATA[The end of the zero-interest era is unleashing competition in the banking sector and changes in saver and investor behaviour]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d742fa39-e55e-4b76-b7f7-b8d40775d936</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d742fa39-e55e-4b76-b7f7-b8d40775d936</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:00:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irish mogul insists on $300mn to walk away from debt-laden empire ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Coulson in talks over restructuring packaging business saddled with $10bn of debt built up in era of cheap money ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/af4633de-7a5f-4691-a265-6d00ad863164</link><guid isPermaLink="false">af4633de-7a5f-4691-a265-6d00ad863164</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:00:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trades that will shape a new financial crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are multiple vulnerabilities and faultlines that could be ruthlessly unpicked]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/fd7ec715-d99a-4ae2-b287-83926836522e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fd7ec715-d99a-4ae2-b287-83926836522e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:00:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the US heading for a debt crisis?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio sounds the alarm]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/0dfc60db-5abc-405a-b9b5-08095f099d91</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0dfc60db-5abc-405a-b9b5-08095f099d91</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warner Bros Discovery’s ‘Red Divorce’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even the index providers are puzzled by the ambush ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ac218054-0a35-40b9-bf5e-68654f43a28c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ac218054-0a35-40b9-bf5e-68654f43a28c</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:27:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[European junk bond sales hit record as investors cut US exposure]]></title><description><![CDATA[June issuance of about €23bn comes as companies take advantage of lower borrowing costs]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/7c6fa795-6e6e-457c-bc0e-54fbd2c5a65a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7c6fa795-6e6e-457c-bc0e-54fbd2c5a65a</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:00:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU’s shift to a US savings model risks dismantling its social contract]]></title><description><![CDATA[Political choices should be debated democratically, not hidden in technocratic agendas of ‘financing gaps’]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/052e4794-915c-475a-8179-6b5ca2de75f0</link><guid isPermaLink="false">052e4794-915c-475a-8179-6b5ca2de75f0</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risks of funding states via casinos]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is easy to imagine conditions in which money simply dries up, perhaps in response to large movements in bond yields]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/182f4ea1-15cd-40e6-a34b-05c27dc125bf</link><guid isPermaLink="false">182f4ea1-15cd-40e6-a34b-05c27dc125bf</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:57:02 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>