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The FT’s Alan Beattie and Andy Bounds replied to reader questions

Following the government shutdown and data drought, views that the Fed will cut on December 10 are near unanimous

Also in today’s newsletter: investor concerns about Hassett, and Meta faces fresh EU antitrust investigation

Blistering GDP reading raises doubts about RBI cut amid questions about quality of official data

Beijing’s tight export controls on critical minerals have strained relations with the US and EU

French and Chinese leaders stress need for multilateralism amid rising trade tensions

Petrostates becoming ‘more assertive’, Wopke Hoekstra tells FT

Decision sparks concern among China hawks that Donald Trump is sacrificing national security to maintain trade truce

President insists prices have come down despite voter frustration over high cost of living

Some market participants worried candidate for top central bank job will be swayed by Trump on interest rates

How one year of President Donald Trump has reshaped the world economy, democracy and capitalism

A decade after Thomas Piketty’s unlikely bestseller, his ideas are getting renewed political attention

Country’s $3bn ‘dim sum’ bond will help finance war in Ukraine and could lead to many more

Commodity trader says growth in India will overtake that in China for first time

Just please don’t call it quantitative easing, for Fed’s sake

Also in today’s newsletter: Anthropic taps law firm for IPO and Binance names new co-CEO

Policy would force EU companies to buy certain products domestically in an effort to cut reliance on China

Small, often invisible barriers to trade affect products from businesses across Europe, including a fluffy Ikea pachyderm

Martin Wolf and Paul Krugman on exploiting male rage – and America’s affordability crisis

Diverging fortunes of technology and other sectors spark concern despite rapid growth in GDP