The Federal Reserve is not expected to cut interest rates on Wednesday but the US central bank’s policy is already under scrutiny from President Donald Trump. Investors overwhelmingly expect the Fed to hold rates at their current level of 4.25-4.5 per cent, after three consecutive cuts since September.

André Corrêa do Lago, the experienced Brazilian diplomat and climate negotiator appointed this week, told the Financial Times that the exit of the US could also allow nations such as China, India and Brazil to take a bigger role in the world’s most important climate talks.

President Donald Trump’s call for a new oil boom will be thwarted by Wall Street’s reluctance to approve another drilling binge, shale bosses have warned.

This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing, where we talk about all of the things happening in US politics. I’m Sonja Hutson. And this week we’re asking: how far will Donald Trump take his vendetta agenda? Here with me to discuss is James Politi. He’s the FT’s Washington bureau chief. Hi, James.

Vanessa Wruble was a driving force behind the Women’s March in the US capital, inspired by the perceived threat Trump posed to reproductive and civil rights. For now, though, she is done marching. “What would it actually accomplish?

Trump is expected to make early moves to help the US oil and gas industry as part of his promise to usher in a new era of American “energy dominance”. Among his day one executive orders, he has vowed to direct the federal government to slash red tape and “end all Biden restrictions on energy production”.

Good morning. Donald Trump had a busy first full day back in the Oval Office, as the US president kicked off massive shifts in the country’s economic infrastructure. Here are the key changes.

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Donald Trump imposed no new trade tariffs on the first day of his second term, as feared by markets, but the US president did lay out the official blueprint for an “America First Trade Policy”.

Donald Trump has raised hopes in London that he could have a constructive relationship with the UK, telling reporters he liked Sir Keir Starmer “a lot” and that he could travel to Britain on his first foreign trip since returning to the White House.