Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investing is not immune to passing fashions. In recent years, it has mainly been a macro game, with Fed tea-leaf readers, consumer-spending trackers and China analysts much in demand. Big shifts have sunk whole sectors
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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. Senior British MPs have raised concerns about TikTok’s ownership in the UK, after the US House of Representatives last week approved a bill that would ban distribution of the video app unless it is sold
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Changes to UK planning rules introduced by the ruling Conservative party last December are already causing local councils to cancel housing developments. The reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) introduced by Michael Gove
Shares of Micron surged more than 12 per cent on Wednesday after the US chipmaker swung to a profit for the first time since 2022 and shared a rosy outlook for the current quarter, crediting strong demand for artificial intelligence-related products. Micron projected $6.6bn in revenue for the current quarter, about $600mn higher than analysts
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. FTX’s caretaker chief executive has branded Sam Bankman-Fried a deluded criminal who masterminded a “colossal fraud”, and accused the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange’s founder of lying about the losses incurred by former customers in an attempt
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US Federal Reserve officials indicated on Wednesday that they still expected to cut interest rates by 75 basis points this year, a sign of confidence that inflation is cooling sufficiently to reduce borrowing costs. The
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A prominent British-born Israeli government spokesman has been suspended from his role after an online spat with the UK foreign secretary David Cameron over humanitarian aid to war-torn Gaza. Eylon Levy had responded to a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The New York attorney-general has rejected Donald Trump’s claim that it was a “practical impossibility” to post a bond while he appeals against a nearly half-billion dollar fraud judgment, escalating the threat that the state
Detective Constable Joe Ryan arrived at a red-brick manor house in Hampstead, north London, early on the morning of October 31 2018. Ryan, a veteran money-laundering investigator with the Metropolitan Police, had obtained a warrant to search the property as part of an investigation into the activities of a 36-year-old woman named Jian Wen. A
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak pointed to falling inflation as evidence that his economic plan was working on Wednesday as he attempted to launch an end-of-term fightback in the House of Commons. Speaking at prime minister’s questions, Sunak
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For anyone who thinks the Conservative party is turning back towards its small state beliefs, may I present the Football Governance bill. This measure creates a new regulator for the business of soccer, designed to
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. For Donald Trump, it would not be seven times a charm. His first six bankruptcies all took place before he went into politics. Most of these occurred in two phases: in the early
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bitcoin has fallen 16 per cent from its all-time high last week, as the investor flows into new stock market funds that had driven a huge rally this year go into reverse. The world’s largest
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If nothing else, Thames Water’s chair Sir Adrian Montague can be commended for courage. The City veteran agreed to oversee Britain’s biggest privatised water utility last July. Since then, fears over its financial health have
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boeing has warned that it will burn more cash in the first quarter than previously expected as the US plane maker grapples with the consequences of the blowout of a door panel in mid-flight from
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Property sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Finally some good news for people struggling to get on the property ladder. For too long, Americans have suffered from a convoluted property system that condemned them to pay some of the world’s highest commissions,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Christine Lagarde has said the European Central Bank will be unable to commit to a particular path of interest rate cuts once it starts to ease monetary policy, despite signs that wage growth has peaked
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Property sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK rental costs rose at a record pace in February, while house prices stabilised, according to official data. The average UK private rent increased by 9 per cent in the 12 months to February 2024,
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK’s inflation rate fell sharply in February, bolstering arguments for the Bank of England to start cutting interest rates this year as it makes headway in bringing price growth under control. The consumer prices
A pink dawn rises above the low-slung warehouses of Grimsby’s docklands while men in white coats and wellies call out prices for pallets of fish on ice. The fish are not caught locally but are instead mostly imported from Iceland. It is a far cry from the 1960s, when Grimsby was the biggest fishing port
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