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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nvidia’s share price plunged by 10 per cent on Friday, helping to seal the worst run for US stock markets since October 2022, as investors shunned risky assets ahead of a flurry of Big Tech
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. New York’s attorney-general has urged a judge to invalidate a $175mn bond posted by Donald Trump to halt enforcement of a half-billion dollar fraud judgment against him and his businesses, arguing that it is not
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jeremy Hunt is targeting cutting another 2p off national insurance in a pre-election September mini-Budget that would allow the Conservatives to boast they had halved the rate of the tax in a single year. Hunt
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A $95bn US aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan is set for a final vote on Saturday, after Democratic lawmakers backed the plan put forward by the House of Representatives’ Republican Speaker Mike
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mysterious wreckages photographed in Iraq have given the clearest indication yet of how Israel might have launched its counterstrike against Iran. The pictures, scoured by military analysts and open-source intelligence enthusiasts, suggest that Israel may
Since Iran launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel last week, Benjamin Netanyahu has faced the highest-stakes decision of his career: how to respond to Tehran’s first direct strike on Israel without sparking an all-out war between the Middle East’s two most powerful militaries. On Friday, the result of the deliberations between the
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. It may ultimately come to naught. But Joe Biden’s Middle Eastern acrobatics over the last week would make Henry Kissinger blush. As long as there is no war between Israel and Iran, the US
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’, distinguished fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics and an FT contributing editor Iran and Israel’s repeated misreading of each other’s intentions and thresholds has led to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities has called the former congressman who runs Donald Trump’s media business a “loser” after he named the powerful trading firm in a letter suggesting that an illegal form of short
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and an adviser to Allianz and Gramercy National security experts and financial market traders seem to disagree on what will follow the recent escalation of tensions between
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s water regulator has lashed out at the country’s water utilities for paying “significant dividends” to shareholders while failing to fix their poor environmental record, in comments that pile more pressure on the industry
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple said it had removed Meta mobile communications applications WhatsApp and Threads from its online store in China under direction from the country’s internet regulator. The iPhone maker said on Friday that the Cyberspace Administration
Leading shareholders in Royal Mail’s parent company have criticised Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský’s £4.5bn approach, with one large investor calling his initial offer an “absolute joke”. International Distributions Services said on Wednesday that it had recently rejected an approach from Křetínský’s investment group that valued the former British postal monopoly at 320p a share. IDS
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. EY made “grave” and “repeated” violations of professional duties in its audits of defunct payments firm Wirecard, Germany’s audit watchdog Apas concluded on Friday. The Munich-based fintech company Wirecard collapsed into insolvency in June 2020
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was quite the turnaround. At the end of last year, futures markets had priced in six interest rate cuts for the US in 2024. As stubborn inflation data kept coming in over the first
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Oil prices fell on Friday after Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Iran provoked a shortlived spike, in a sign of investors’ confidence that the action will not escalate into a broader conflict in the Middle East. Brent
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boris Johnson breached UK government rules by failing to disclose his relationship with a hedge fund that organised his visit to meet Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, according to the Whitehall appointments watchdog. Lord Eric Pickles,
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“Death. Death. Another death. Old. Young. Old. Young. Young. Killed in action while defending Ukraine. This is what my feed looks like,” Julia Tymoshenko said of the posts filling her social media timelines this week. “Somehow we [Ukrainians] are expected to keep it together,” the Kyiv-based marketing specialist said. “To be professional. To be grateful.
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