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The government is due to decide very soon whether to adopt “zonal pricing” – i.e. whether people should pay different amounts for their energy depending on whereabouts in the country they live. All indications are that Downing Street will reject the idea but it’s yet to be confir ... Show More

President Donald Trump has vowed tariffs of 50% on imports of copper into the US. The announcement sent prices for the metal soaring. It’s the president’s latest salvo in a tariff war which has hit companies in all sorts of sectors. Sean Farrington hears from the co-founder of a ... Show More

US President Donald Trump says countries will now have until August 1 to agree new trade deals with the White House. He’d initially set a deadline of July 9 – this Wednesday – but has pushed it back by three weeks. All the same, he’s doubled down on a threat to hit two of the US’ ... Show More

US Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, confirmed just last month, speaks to Bloomberg minutes after learning that nonfarm payrolls rose by 228,000 in March easily beating the estimate of 140,000. She says this won't be the last positive jobs report under President Donald Trump a ... Show More

In today's video we examine Donald Trump's plan to rebalance global trade using tariffs, try to understand the issues with international trade that have been pushing the United States and other countries in this protectionist direction, and if tariffs can be expected to improve t ... Show More

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez talks to Dan Loney about the latest jobs report, why we're on pace to recover much faster than we did after the Great Recession, and why workers have all of the leverage. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 

Stocks jumped and the dollar rose after President Donald Trump said he had no intention of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell while optimism grew that trade tensions may be easing. Trump's comments on the Fed chief late Tuesday in Washington walk back opinions expressed e ... Show More

European stock indices have outperformed the S&P 500 so far this year. The FT’s Aiden Reiter joins Katie Martin to discuss why investors are finally looking beyond US stocks and why Donald Trump’s policies could accidentally benefit global exporters. Also, we go short posthumous ... Show More

Our Global Head of Fixed Income and Public Policy Research Michael Zezas and Chief Asia Economist Chetan Ahya discuss the potential impact of U.S. tariffs in China and beyond. ----- Transcript ----- Michael Zezas: Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Michael Zezas, Morgan Stanl ... Show More

Workers are being afforded more responsibility with no uplift in pay - but how commonplace are ‘dry promotions’? How do we decide the value of a job and therefore how much an employee gets paid? Does the UK have a work ethic crisis? And can you fail ‘intelligently’ or do mistakes ... Show More

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US and China agreed to a trade truce and that more trade deals are on the way. He speaks to hosts Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

As President-elect Donald Trump lays out his plan for increasing tariffs on goods made in China and Mexico, some U.S. businesses are stockpiling. Small business owner Jason Junod explains what he thinks the impacts of the proposed tariffs will be, and why he hasn’t been able to g ... Show More

The down-to-the-deadline nature of Trump’s trade policy has created market uncertainty. Our Head of Corporate Credit Research Andrew Sheets points out a silver lining.  ----- Transcript ----- Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Andrew Sheets, Head of Corporate Credit Research ... Show More