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Celebrations will ring out across Asia and beyond this Saturday with the beginning of the next lunar year — the year of the dragon for most countries that mark the occasion. Before that, Pakistan goes to the polls amid heightened political controversy. Former prime minister Imran Khan will not be taking part, having been sentenced
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Federal Reserve’s rate-setters still expect to make around three quarter-point rate cuts this year, its chair Jay Powell said in an interview that aired on Sunday. Powell told CBS’s 60 Minutes show that “almost
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The head of Emirates Airline has warned Boeing was in the “last chance saloon” as he prepared to send his own engineers to oversee the plane maker’s production lines after witnessing a long decline in
Iran used two of the UK’s biggest banks to covertly move money around the world as part of a vast sanctions-evasion scheme backed by Tehran’s intelligence services. Lloyds and Santander UK provided accounts to British front companies secretly owned by a sanctioned Iranian petrochemicals company based near Buckingham Palace, according to documents seen by the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak will arrive in Northern Ireland on Sunday evening to meet politicians and community groups after the historic restoration of the region’s devolved government following two years of paralysis. The UK prime minister is
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak is poised to drop plans to fine boiler makers who fail to meet strict production targets for heat pumps in the UK prime minister’s latest retreat from measures to tackle climate change Industry
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Jeremy Hunt has ordered Whitehall’s fiscal watchdog to review the “tourist tax”, raising campaigners’ hopes that the chancellor is poised to reverse the policy. The Conservative government scrapped VAT-free shopping for international visitors to the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the UK’s two state-of-the-art aircraft carriers will not take part in the largest Nato exercise in Europe since the cold war after last-minute checks identified a problem with its propeller. The Royal Navy
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Labour is delaying plans to abolish the House of Lords as Britain’s main opposition party hones its policy platform ahead of the general election expected this year. Sir Keir Starmer’s party has axed proposals to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A former Clifford Chance lawyer has been acquitted of insider trading in a London trial after the judge ruled there was no case to answer. Suhail Zina was found not guilty by the jury on
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The British people are disillusioned. That is the conclusion to be drawn from recent polling on their trust in their government and politics. This is bad enough in itself. But low political trust risks creating
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s education secretary has admitted she cannot guarantee all parents in England will be able to access the government’s extended childcare offer. From April, the current entitlement to 30 hours of free infant care a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Taylor Swift could make history on Sunday if she wins music’s most coveted prize, album of the year, for a fourth time — becoming the first artist to do so since the Grammy Awards were
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As Iran’s best-known moderate Hassan Rouhani was being blocked from the powerful body with responsibility to appoint the country’s supreme leader, his hardline successor as president, Ebrahim Raisi, was handed a clear run at the
As Jay Powell faced reporters on Wednesday following the US Federal Reserve’s first policy meeting of 2024, his mood was confident. Hailing “six months of good inflation” and predicting more to come, the Fed chair said: “Let’s be honest: this is a good economy.” Maybe a little too good. On Friday, markets were stunned by
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a law professor at Texas A&M University and the author of ‘The Just and the Good: Twelve Laws That Made the Modern World’ (forthcoming) In December the Supreme Court in
The grip of the so-called “Magnificent Seven” tech companies on US stock markets has loosened as investors focus on concrete results rather than solely on artificial intelligence’s potential. The seven largest tech groups — Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Tesla and Nvidia — drove most of last year’s stock market gains as traders bet that
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Sovereign bonds myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Eurozone governments have rushed to raise debt early this year in an effort to take advantage of bumper investor demand. The bloc’s members have sold €200bn of bonds since the start of 2024. Issuance in
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Pensions industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Senior industry professionals say they are worried about the growing involvement of overseas reinsurance firms operating outside UK regulation in corporate pension deals. Many UK businesses with large pension schemes have offloaded them to life
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Top oil industry executives have hit out at US President Joe Biden’s decision to pause approvals for new liquefied natural gas export terminals, with Shell’s CEO warning it will “erode confidence” in an