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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The owner of the Guardian Media Group is expected to announce on Friday that it has agreed to the sale of The Observer to digital start-up Tortoise despite two days of strikes from staff over the

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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. Aviva, the UK insurance heavyweight, has agreed a £3.6bn takeover deal with Direct Line, after winning over its smaller rival with a sweetened bid. The preliminary deal, announced in a joint statement by the companies

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is chancellor of the exchequer After nearly a decade and a half of stagnation and decline, this country has a radically different government. One that is relentlessly focused on delivering what matters most

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Last month, the UK’s government announced a series of proposals to “get Britain working”, premised on the claim that the country is facing “spiralling economic inactivity”, with “2.8mn people locked out of work due to

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Investors have pumped almost $140bn into US equity funds since last month’s election as traders bet Donald Trump’s administration will unleash sweeping tax cuts and reforms in a boon to corporate America. US

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like many teenagers, I read The Dice Man because the idea of the novel’s protagonist making decisions based on the roll of a die sounded rebellious and fun. I gave it a try too —

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world President-elect Donald Trump has named venture capitalist David Sacks as the White House’s artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency tsar, the latest confidant of Elon Musk to receive a top appointment in the new government.

A fortnight-long rally for Wall Street took a breather, as investors turned their attention to Friday’s government jobs report and its potential implications for the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting later this month. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite on Thursday finished about 0.2 per cent below their record closing highs notched up in the previous

Large companies rushed to assess whether top employees have sufficient protection after the slaying of a US insurance executive in New York stoked broad concerns about corporate security. Heads of security for groups on both sides of the Atlantic raced in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting to share intelligence and make inquiries with specialist companies

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US oil supermajor Chevron will cut capital spending next year for the first time since the pandemic oil crash, dialling back its shale expansion plans just as Donald Trump enters office with a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. French President Emmanuel Macron came out fighting against opposition parties who he said “chose chaos” by bringing down his premier in a historic no confidence vote, vowing not to step aside before the end of

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A US judge has rejected Boeing’s guilty plea agreement stemming from twin crashes of the 737 Max, citing diversity, equity and inclusion considerations in selecting a monitor to oversee compliance. Judge Reed O’Connor

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thames Water has received a bid from Covalis Capital that would see France’s Suez flown in to help manage a break-up of the UK’s largest water utility before listing it on the stock market. The

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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 Labour party will not have to apply for a renewal of its lease on power until eight months after the end of Donald Trump’s second term as US president. Or, to put it another

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Detectives in New York are investigating inscriptions of “deny”, “defend” and “depose” on bullet casings left at the scene of the murder of the UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marks and Spencer will knock down its flagship art deco store on London’s Oxford Street after it received approval from UK housing secretary and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner. The retailer said it had secured

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The number of individuals being taxed at 60 per cent on part of their earnings has risen by almost half in two years, new figures seen by the Financial Times show. The numbers, revealed by

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has resigned after his government was ousted by MPs in a vote of no confidence. The Élysée said on Thursday Barnier had handed in his resignation but that President Emmanuel