Both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) have been on a prolonged uptrend and have been gaining popularity, with BTC breaching $21,000 and ETH crossing the $1,500 mark recently.The rise in cryptocurrency usage has been attributed to a variety of reasons, such as the positive China…

UK inflation slowed for the second consecutive month in December after it hit a 41-year peak in October suggesting the price surge has peaked.The annual rate of consumer price inflation declined to 10.5 per cent in December, from 10.7 per cent in November and further…

Ruurd Brouwer is the chief executive of TCX, a currency hedging fund set up by several development banks to help developing countries ameliorate FX risks. In last week’s FT, Martin Wolf made a just case that high income countries should support emerging and developing economies…

The CEO of Ukrainian state energy giant Naftogaz said the company is working toward resolving its debt default problems quickly.Yuriy Vitrenko told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday that he is in the final stages of getting the company…

Australia has ordered 40 US-made Black Hawk helicopters after scrapping an existing deal with Europe’s Airbus over performance issues with its existing fleet, as Canberra increases defence alignment with the US in the Indo-Pacific region.The switch, which was initially announced in 2021 but not formalised…

Good morning. Goldman’s earnings disappointed the market yesterday. A bad omen for the rest of earnings season? Probably not: investment banking and trading say more about markets than the real economy. Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com.The case for a soft landingWe noted yesterday that markets…