Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Venezuela will hold its presidential election on July 28, ending speculation over when polls will be held as political repression increases in the South American country. Socialist strongman President Nicolás Maduro is expected to run
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Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Rates are up and so are the markets, baffling the bears. Today on the show, FT correspondents Ethan Wu and Katie Martin look at five reasons the market might be rationally booming, including investor sentiment numbers,
The UK’s Conservative party has traditionally prided itself on being a strong supporter of business. But ahead of chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget on Wednesday, directors of small businesses expressed concern over high costs — including interest rates — an impending rise in the living wage, a shortage of skilled workers and difficulty accessing tax breaks
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bitcoin traded as high as $69,200 on Tuesday, briefly setting a new all-time record for the world’s largest cryptocurrency before falling back. The price has surged since US regulators in January approved spot bitcoin exchange
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Emmanuel Macron’s remark last week that sending western troops to Ukraine could not be ruled out was immediately slapped down by many European counterparts — notably German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Russia’s Vladimir Putin still seized
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accounting & Consulting services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. PwC stripped three senior partners of their management roles and disqualified one of them from the race to run its US business after finding they breached leadership election rules. Neil Dhar, who had
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China is the global savings superpower. In the past, in a fast-growing economy with superb investment opportunities, its high savings have been a big asset. But they can also cause huge headaches. Today, with the
Welcome to the Financial Times’s live coverage of Super Tuesday, perhaps one of the busiest days of the US presidential election calendar. Fifteen US states head to the polls, potentially shedding more light on who the Republican and Democratic parties will pick as their nominee for president. Stay with us through the day for updates
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This is an on-site version of the US Election Countdown newsletter. You can read the previous edition here. Sign up for free here to get it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Email us at electioncountdown@ft.com Good morning and happy
With just weeks to go before the UK government rolls out the first stage of its flagship childcare expansion package, Catrin Blackwell has been told she will not be able to take advantage of the free hours it offers. The nursery used by the full-time nurse for her two-year-old twin boys has said it is
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. After the USSR’s collapse in 1991, the Kremlin made it a priority to retain a pre-eminent position in the newly independent former Soviet republics on Russia’s western and southern borders. This was apparent even during
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European Central Bank staff are in revolt over the board’s approach to climate change after an executive said new recruits had to be “reprogrammed” to ensure they support its green policies. The ECB’s staff committee
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Singapore’s Temasek Holdings is holding talks about investing in OpenAI, a deal that would mark the first time a state-backed group has funded the ChatGPT maker. Senior executives at Temasek, one of the world’s biggest
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to cut national insurance rates as he puts personal tax reductions at the heart of his Budget on Wednesday. Government insiders confirmed that Conservative whips had been told to
When Yemen’s Houthis attacked a ship carrying 21,000 tonnes of fertiliser from Saudi Arabia to Bulgaria last month, they had a simple justification: they said the Rubymar was a “British ship”. But the Rubymar, which sank on Saturday, flew the flag of Belize, was partly managed by a Beirut-based ship management company, was on a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s plans to target economic growth of about 5 per cent this year should prompt some scepticism. Uncertainty from a property sector crisis and weak consumer spending make it difficult to be optimistic. But one
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Monzo has secured a fresh round of funding that has boosted its valuation to $5bn, as the London-based fintech prepares a second attempt to break into the US market. The digital bank on Tuesday confirmed
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has just released a report criticising the government for failing to track whether it is doing a good job in its borrowing strategy. You can read mainFT’s write-up here.
Hawkish policymakers at the European Central Bank have been emboldened to resist calls for an imminent cut to interest rates at their meeting this week after inflation proved stickier than expected in February. Until a few months ago, investors were betting the ECB would cut borrowing costs as early as this month, encouraged by how
Academics at Imperial College London have worked with scientists at Chinese institutions linked to Beijing’s armed forces and defence sector on research with potential military applications. Since the beginning of 2023, academics at the world-leading British university have been named as co-authors on at least five studies with figures from Chinese organisations at the heart
Christian Kroll is frustrated. The founder of Berlin-based search engine start-up Ecosia says he has been feeling stressed these past few months about how his company’s larger rival Google will abide by new EU rules aimed at opening up competition. In order to comply with the Digital Markets Act, Google must present its users with