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  • Elon Musk jumping for joy in front of US flag

    What a second Trump presidency means for big US tech firms

    Instant boom enjoyed by some sectors belies complex decisions to be made on AI, monopolies and social media
  • Elon Musk joins Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 5 October 2024.

    Tesla hits $1tn market value after Musk-backed Trump win

  • Elon Musk with both hands in the air

    Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10

    Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit
  • a man in a suit, tie and glasses speaks in front of an American flag

    Fed chair says he will not resign even if pressured by Trump as interest rate cut

    Trump has been a persistent critic of the Fed, which lowered rates for the second time in a row as inflation continues to ease
    • Donald Trump in a hard hat reading 'President Donald J Trump' pumping his fist on stage next to a steelworker

      More tariffs, less red tape: what Trump will mean for key global industries

    • Dollar bill with £1 coins and one euro coins

      Wall Street and bitcoin soar to record highs as Trump wins US election

    • two men side by side

      Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and other business leaders congratulate Trump

    • Workers inspect the raised bonnet of a car on the BMW production line in Munich, Germany

      German carmakers’ shares slump on fear Trump will impose steep tariffs

In depth

  • A woman crouches by a small pond, a spade in her hand and a bucket beside her

    ‘I do an illegal job, stealing’: the women forced to scavenge in Bolivia’s tin mines

  • US-AEROSPACE-SPACE-NASA-BOEING<br>A media member listens during a Boeing Starliner post-landing news conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on September 7, 2024. Boeing's beleaguered Starliner returned to Earth empty September 7, 2024 after NASA deemed it too risky to bring home the astronauts who rode the spaceship up to the International Space Station. (Photo by Mark FELIX / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

    Raised eyebrows as Boeing reportedly mulls sale of stellar space enterprise

    Company that helped build Nasa’s Saturn V rockets said to be keen to focus on fixing problems in core aircraft business
  • A visitor looks at giant Hello Kitty display with large figure of the character

    As Hello Kitty turns 50 her cuteness is still earning £3.1bn a year

    Japanese character said to be second-highest grossing media franchise after Pokémon is also a TikTok superstar

    Around the world

    • Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and Viktor Orban walk towards their microphones at a joint press conference

      EU leaders vow to make bloc more competitive in face of Trump threat

    • a vast housing estate development shows rows upon rows of tower blocks

      China unveils 10tn yuan support for debt-stricken local government

    • Donald Trump in Make America Great Again cap

      Trump tariffs would halve UK growth and push up prices, says thinktank

    • TikTok app logo is seen on a phone

      French parents whose children took own lives sue TikTok over harmful content

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