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Policymakers can raise growth by targeting economic agility

Projections about the coming year assume market shifts will be dictated by Donald Trump. But the global economy is unlikely to revolve around the US

Total capacity of ships on order overtakes pandemic levels despite uncertain outlook for global trade

Tax and wage rises have caused confidence to ‘slump’, warns British Chambers of Commerce

Plus, UK retail earnings, South Korea’s Yoon summoned to parliamentary hearing and Venezuela’s Maduro sworn in

Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

Comparisons with the US stock market undersell the continent’s companies and their potential

Almost half of analysts polled by the FT accuse rate-setters of being ‘behind the curve’

China is marshalling its forces for long-term competition against an America that it believes is divided and in decline

Maverick economist turned presidential adviser Peter Navarro has helped bring back a world in which power takes precedence over economic exchange. Will he prove his critics wrong?

Tom Barkin’s comments come just weeks before the president-elect takes office with a vow to raise tariffs

Investors have no clue what the returning President Trump will actually do

Also in today’s newsletter, cold winter snap stokes US heating prices and a shake-up at the top of Meta

People are worried about the economy

Sonja Hutson talks to Will Schmitt and Susannah Savage

Washington’s leverage over countries in the region is waning as China’s influence grows

What appears on the surface to be a flat trend masks churn beneath

The FT’s annual poll forecasts better performance than France and Germany

Below are full responses to the FT’s annual survey about the British economy

German conservative leader predicted to be next chancellor rejects retaliatory tariffs