Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s military said on Friday that its soldiers had made errors and violated its operating procedures in their strike on a humanitarian convoy this week that killed seven aid workers. The deaths of the workers
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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 Biden administration is drawing up plans to require goods produced in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to be clearly labelled as coming from there, according to US officials, another sign of White
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK house prices myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK house prices fell 1 per cent in March from February, marking their first fall after five consecutive monthly rises and surprising economists who had expected a slight increase. Mortgage lender Halifax, which compiled
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The question of how to squash government debt is about as fresh as a pickled turnip. And given rising interest rates and feeble growth, the answers are about as sour. But a new working paper
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation in South Africa Since the advent of democracy in South Africa three decades ago, our mutually beneficial economic relations with the United States have surpassed
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The boss of one of the City’s biggest independent investment banks has sounded the alarm over the future of London’s capital markets, saying they will end up “dead” on current trends. Peel Hunt chief executive
Hedge funds are pouncing on the UK’s £200bn investment trust sector as it is shunned by investors and hit by competition from cheaper rivals. Investment trusts, a cornerstone of UK equity markets with roots stretching back more than a century, have seen a gap open up between their share prices and the value of the
Joe Lewis, the British billionaire whose family owns Tottenham Hotspur football club, will avoid being sent to prison for insider trading, after a federal judge in Manhattan agreed on Thursday to sentence the 87-year-old to a $5mn fine and three years of probation. Lewis pleaded guilty to fraud charges in January, following an investigation in
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The global benchmark oil price has topped $90 a barrel for the first time since October as flaring tensions in the Middle East exacerbate an already-tight market. Brent crude oil futures rose 1.5 per cent on
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden has warned Benjamin Netanyahu that US support for Israel’s war in Gaza depended on its efforts to address the humanitarian suffering in the enclave, as he called for an “immediate ceasefire” in the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Lewis, the British billionaire whose family owns Tottenham Hotspur football club, will avoid being sent to prison for insider trading, after a federal judge in Manhattan agreed on Thursday to sentence the 87-year-old to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government on Thursday came under increased pressure to end arms sales to Israel following the killing of seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza earlier this week. In a letter to
Early this year Donald Trump participated in a live town hall event on Fox News. In previous years, this would not be a surprise, or even noteworthy. As president, the former reality-television star and obsessive cable news viewer made Fox an extension of his White House, where he installed a large flatscreen TV in the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The global boss of consulting firm Accenture has been accused of publicly “shaming” an ousted senior executive, who has alleged that the firm discriminated against him because of a neurological disability. Peter Lacy, Accenture’s former
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What can be done to cut inflation? That is a question haunting central bankers right now, given the “disappointing” trajectory of consumer price data in America, among other places. It is also worrying politicians such
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Is Intel in the middle of one of the greatest turnarounds in business history? Or has Washington just committed to pouring tens of billions of dollars into a flailing has-been in a vain attempt to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A grandson of French billionaire François Pinault has joined the board of Christie’s in the first sign of third-generation succession planning within the family behind luxury group Kering. François Louis Nicolas Pinault, 26, replaced family
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European house prices fell for the first time in a decade last year, as strong growth in the property markets of some eastern and southern countries was masked by declines in many northern EU states.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sell signals come in many forms. Traditional City of London wisdom, for instance, holds that a splashy new headquarters is reason to steer clear of a stock. That is one way to look at Kering’s
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Police in Italy and several other European countries have arrested 22 people and seized assets worth €600mn in connection with alleged fraud involving the EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund. The Italian financial police said it had
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Seventy-one years ago, Francis Crick burst into the Eagle pub in Cambridge to announce to startled lunchtime drinkers that he and his fellow researcher James Watson had discovered “the secret of life”. Their deciphering of