Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Veteran politician John Swinney is poised to become Scotland’s first minister this week after being appointed leader of the Scottish National party. Swinney, who led the party in the early 2000s, is expected to face
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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. The Israeli military has told tens of thousands of Palestinians to leave the southern Gazan city of Rafah as Israel’s defence minister warned of an imminent military “operation” as talks to free Israeli hostages appeared
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is chair of Rockefeller International At a time when two big economies, the US and India, are attracting a lot of hype for their enduring strength, it is worth looking at nations that
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The number of new homes being built in England could fall to roughly half the official target unless the government steps up financial and policy support for new housing, according to a forecast from Savills.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shareholders in BP are preparing for the company to scale back its climate targets further after a shift in tone from the oil major’s new chief executive. BP is alone among its peers in committing
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Arab nations have begun to swing behind the idea of a multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza and the occupied West Bank, as they scramble to develop a viable postwar plan for the region. The draft
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Finland has successfully tested its ability to run a war economy and has begun storing military equipment outside its national borders as the Nordic country renowned for its high level of preparedness deals with an
In Falls County, about 30 minutes’ drive from Waco in the heart of Texas, clean energy company Avangrid is building its largest ever solar project. Due to be completed early next year, the True North solar project will have a capacity of 321 megawatts, equivalent to enough energy to provide power for more than 55,000
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A US crackdown on banks financing trade in goods for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has made it much more difficult to move money in and out of Russia, according to senior western officials and Russian financiers. Moscow’s trade volumes with key partners such as Turkey and China have slumped in the first quarter of
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ArcelorMittal has warned the UK government that one of its main divisions may be forced to leave the country if an application to redevelop a commercial port in south-east England is approved this week. The
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK governments expecting to do badly in local elections like to leak disaster scenarios in advance, in hope they can later claim to have done better than expected. In the event, the results for Rishi
Over the course of 48 agonising hours, Rishi Sunak saw his Conservative party crushed in elections across England and Wales, culminating in Andy Street’s agonisingly narrow defeat as Tory mayor of the West Midlands. The dark outlook was summed up by the ConservativeHome activists’ website which said: “These elections have only confirmed that the Conservatives
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine will look to mount a new counteroffensive in 2025 after receiving a $61bn infusion of US military aid to help it stop Russia from making additional gains this year, Jake Sullivan, the US
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak was told by Conservative MPs on Sunday to show some vision and start digging his party out of the “hole” it was in after a disastrous set of local election results. Although Tory
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has a small polling lead over Joe Biden in the critical swing states with six months to go before US voters elect their next president on November 5. It marks a stunning reversal
Goldman Sachs this week celebrated 25 years as a public company. The Wall Street investment bank has not always wanted to act like one. In the early years after the initial public offering, longtime chief financial officer David Viniar was said to privately joke that “disclosing the weather is too much information”. Goldman’s IPO in
For many years, journalists have analysed public figures through a simple, cynical lens: why is this lying bastard lying to me? But maybe we also need to ask the opposite: why are they telling us the truth? Exhibit one: Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota. She had been mentioned as a possible vice-presidential candidate for
Warren Buffett said Greg Abel should have the final decision on investments at Berkshire Hathaway, making clear that his successor will have authority over not just takeovers but the sprawling conglomerate’s mammoth stock portfolio as well. At Berkshire’s annual general meeting in Omaha on Saturday, Buffett gave his most direct answer yet on how responsibilities
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shell sold to Canada’s largest oil sands companies millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. As
Xi Jinping arrives in Europe on Sunday on a mission to ease escalating tensions that threaten to ignite a trade war between China and the EU. On his first trip to the region since 2019, Xi will face tough talks in France on trade and Ukraine before enjoying a warmer welcome in Serbia and in