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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. Tehran has warned Israel it could review its nuclear stance if its atomic facilities are threatened, as tensions rise following Iran’s attack on Israeli territory last weekend. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday it may

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Two, seemingly contradictory, stories are told about the impact of artificial intelligence. The first is that the industry will be dominated by a handful of giant tech companies, which boast the data, compute power and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ken Griffin’s Citadel has agreed a ‘‘dramatic increase” of its London office footprint, with a deal to move into British Land’s new flagship City tower. Hedge fund Citadel and its sister firm, market-maker Citadel Securities,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blackstone has said it will take time for private equity firms, which are sitting on record amounts of unsold assets, to return cash to investors even as the market for mergers and acquisitions comes back

Liz Truss would love it if, for one week only, this feature could be known as “Lunch with the Deep State”. After all, only a few weeks ago, Truss launched an audacious attempt to become the FT’s new global brand ambassador, waving a copy of the newspaper around at a rightwing conference in Washington, declaring

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two senior women are leaving BP in the first major changes to the company’s management team since the departure last year of chief executive Bernard Looney in a scandal over his past relationships with colleagues.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A fifty-something friend emailed the other day: “Will likely stop full-time work this year . . . retirement beckons!” I was surprised, because it seemed only about 15 minutes ago that he’d been my twenty-something student-housemate, sprawled on the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Qatar’s prime minister has said the Gulf state is re-evaluating its role mediating between Israel and Hamas to secure a ceasefire and the release of hostages held in Gaza, saying Doha’s efforts were being undermined

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A UK Conservative MP has been suspended from the parliamentary party pending an investigation into allegations that he misused campaign funds. Mark Menzies, MP for Fylde and a government trade envoy, has been accused of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the listed UK music rights investment company, has agreed to a $1.4bn takeover from Apollo-backed rival Concord Chorus. The deal follows a strategic review by the company’s board after it lost a

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Central banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Welcome to what Goldman Sachs is calling “reflation desperation”. For policymakers and investors, this will be a nauseating and probably lengthy ride. The embarrassing reset has come about because it turns out the inflation dragon

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A swift demise is better than a slow one. That would certainly be true for Thames Water.  A period of temporary public stewardship is generally framed as a worst-case scenario in discussions about the future

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Michael Gove has insisted ground rents in England and Wales would eventually fall to nominal levels under his leasehold reforms as he accused Conservative opponents to the changes of acting like “rentier” capitalists defending broken

In April last year, a group of nearly 60 EU officials travelled to Sweden on a fact-finding mission to meet Nasdaq Stockholm, operator of the country’s highly successful stock market. During a two-hour session on “capital markets ecosystems”, the exchange’s executives explained why so many small and medium-sized businesses are deciding to list in Stockholm.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran is exporting more oil than at any time for the past six years, giving its economy a $35bn-a-year boost even as western countries discuss stepping up sanctions in response to its attack on Israel.

They used to say the British didn’t complain. We were known for our sense of reserve. But the apparent death of customer service in the UK has moved the national conversation on from talking about the weather. Today, we’re more likely to bond over our gripes with banks, energy companies, online delivery firms, airlines, car

A Boeing whistleblower testified to a US Senate committee that the aircraft manufacturer “absolutely” has a culture of retaliation against employees who raise safety concerns. Sam Salehpour, a quality engineer at the company, said he was berated by a manager in response to repeatedly questioning the safety of the 777 and 787 aeroplanes. Separately, he

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, has poured cold water on US-backed proposals to use more than €260bn of frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s war effort, warning they risked breaking international

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The House of Lords on Wednesday insisted on further changes to the government’s flagship Rwanda asylum bill, dashing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s hopes of the measure becoming law this week. MPs are due to vote

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Boeing whistleblower testified to a US Senate committee that the aircraft manufacturer “absolutely” has a culture of retaliation against employees who raise safety concerns. Sam Salehpour, a quality engineer at the company, said he

Throughout the six months that Israel has been fighting in Gaza, the public has overwhelmingly supported the war effort, with the vast majority of Israelis backing the goal to destroy Hamas and free the hostages still held in the enclave. But there is no such consensus on how to respond to the threat from Iran,