Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Robin Harding pushes back against Cardiff’s argument that the Fed shouldn’t overreact to incipient signs of ...

It may already be too late to save the planet from human-caused global warming. That's according to the boss of the United Nations, who warns that 'much greater ambition is required' to fight climate ...

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are set to hit a record high this year, exacerbating climate change and fuelling more destructive extreme weather, scientists said. The Global ...

In the wake of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve dropped the federal funds rate to near zero to bolster the U.S. economy. Recent research suggests that the constraint preventing this rate from ...

The history of climate change is one of people slowly coming to terms with the truth. None but a small minority still question whether it’s real and caused by humans. Now most grapple with the reality ...

Currency crises are usually associated with large nominal and real depreciations. In some countries depreciations are perceived to be very costly ("fear of floating"). In this paper we try to ...

China vowed to prevent the yuan’s exchange rate from overshooting, sending yet another clear signal of its intention to slow the currency’s appreciation. The People’s Bank of China said while it will ...