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This year is a crunch year for the London market. Nearly four years after Lord Hill’s review of UK listing rules kick-started reform efforts, the stock market remains in the doldrums. New companies listing in London raised the least amount of money on record in 2024, at just £737mn according to Dealogic data, underscoring the

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Asian stocks fell across the board on Monday as investors updated their projections for “higher for longer” interest rates after strong US economic data last week. Equities in Australia, Hong Kong, mainland China, India and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s chemical industry is heading for extinction because of a combination of high energy prices and carbon taxes, according to Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire owner of petrochemicals group Ineos.  The company, which owns several

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Manufacturers have warned that the UK government must deliver on its promise of an effective industrial strategy in order to offset soaring employment costs imposed by chancellor Rachel Reeves in last October’s Budget. A post-budget

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer will on Monday promise to make Britain “the best state partner” for artificial intelligence companies in the world, as he tries to boost UK growth prospects against an ominous economic

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK will invest in a huge expansion of government-owned AI computing capacity over five years including building a new supercomputer as it seeks to establish a globally competitive artificial intelligence sector, ministers will announce

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The California wildfires could be the costliest disaster in US history, the state’s governor said, as forecasts of heavy winds raised fears that the catastrophic fires would spread further. In remarks to NBC’s

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private equity-backed petrol station company EG Group has fired the starting gun on a stock market listing in New York, expected to come as early as this year.  The initial public offering, which could value

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russian forces are heading towards Ukraine’s Dnipro region, bypassing an anticipated heavy urban battle in the eastern Donetsk area. Ukraine has been preparing for urban warfare in Pokrovsk, a key logistics and transport hub

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s City minister Tulip Siddiq is under renewed pressure to step down, with the leader of the opposition calling for her to be fired after she became embroiled in a property scandal tied to

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US hedge fund boss Boaz Weinstein has said he wants to be a “white knight” for UK investors and the London stock market by buying into the £266bn investment trust sector. The founder of New

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financials myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Private equity groups ramped up activity in Europe last year, taking advantage of the continent’s economic woes to snap up big companies at depressed valuations. The total value of European buyout deals worth more than $1bn

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first trial stemming from a wave of UK class action antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech is due to start on Monday as Apple faces a £1.5bn legal claim it levies “excessive and unfair” charges

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Baby boomers and users of weight loss drugs suffering from “facial sagging” are flocking to injectable aesthetic treatments and boosting sales, according to dermatology group Galderma.  The Swiss company, which was spun out from Nestlé

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’ve been sceptical that artificial intelligence will radically remake labour markets in the short term, in part because so much hype comes from the tech industry itself. But in the last couple of months, I’ve

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The price of fuel for nuclear reactors has surged to a record high as demand from artificial intelligence data centres exacerbates a squeeze on the market following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prices for enriched uranium

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves has vowed to act if her fiscal plans are blown off course by turmoil in the gilt market, as she announced a deal with China intended to boost Britain’s stagnating economy. The UK