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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 writer is former chief of MI6 and UK Ambassador to the UN Iran was wrongfooted by Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel. Tehran hadn’t been consulted and the operation risked pulling Iran into a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I know this sounds heretical. But if I had a kid working at EY or Bank of America who was being told to show up more often, I’d side with the bosses. While the younger

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ministers should increase policing to prevent vehicle thefts instead of funding tax cuts in the coming year, the boss of JLR said, after the Range Rover maker was hit by a spate of thefts over

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US economy added 353,000 jobs in January, almost twice as many as expected, leading investors to rein in expectations of interest rate cuts. Economists had expected the country to have added 180,000 jobs last

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has been killed in a suspected Israeli air strike in Syria, the second attack targeting Tehran’s forces in the country in as many weeks. A military adviser identified as

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Surging US oil production helped ExxonMobil and Chevron notch their second-biggest annual profits in a decade despite a slide in prices that tempered earnings from the records hit in 2022. America’s oil supermajors

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BAE Systems has bought a UK technology specialist developing innovative, “heavy-lift” drones capable of delivering supplies or evacuating troops.   The FTSE 100 defence group said on Friday it was buying Berkshire-based Malloy Aeronautics for

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine a company, several of whose board directors used to go on family holidays with its chief executive and who recruited another director after he took a break with them. Imagine that they then granted

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spending on new players by English Premier League clubs has dropped sharply as increased enforcement of financial rules sent a chill through the market during the winter transfer window. The total outlay in the past

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta is paying its first-ever dividend as it tries to win round Wall Street and convince shareholders that years of unproven bets on the metaverse and costly new investments in artificial intelligence will deliver results.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I knew I would find The Traitors, a televised version of the party game Mafia, about as relaxing as waiting in accident and emergency with an open head wound. But the show has become a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The cost of UK carbon emissions permits has fallen to an all-time low, raising fears it will weaken the incentive to build cleaner renewable energy sources. Futures contracts tracking the UK carbon price to December

The online retailer Shein has been accused of breaching its own legal settlements and continuing to sell copycat items despite pledging to stop, with one of the world’s largest fashion groups accusing the company of being “repeat counterfeiters”. Shein has long faced criticism that its blistering growth relied on cheap knock-offs of other people’s designs.

Man Group, the world’s largest publicly listed hedge fund, is retiring the GLG brand and merging some of the firm’s teams as it advances into credit markets, in the first big changes made by its new chief executive Robyn Grew. The firm is dropping the brand, one of the best known in the industry, and

The 2024 US presidential candidates’ campaigns and the political action committees supporting them released several gigabytes of data on Wednesday. Here are four things we learned. Biden has much more money to spend than Trump, whose legal problems are sucking up cash Joe Biden led Donald Trump in the 2023 money race, with his campaign

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, has announced its first ever dividend and an additional $50bn in share buybacks as bumper fourth-quarter results sent its shares up by more than 12 per cent in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple’s revenue returned to growth during the holiday period, beating analysts’ expectations with a boost from its services division and solid iPhone sales, but ongoing concerns about declining sales in China made investors wary. Apple’s

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Amazon reported accelerating sales growth in its cloud division and a healthy outlook for the start of the year, as earnings came in ahead of Wall Street’s expectations. Sales at Amazon’s closely watched cloud computing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden has approved financial sanctions on Israelis responsible for “extremist settler violence” against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, amid rising tensions between the US and Israel over a two-state solution in the region.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Milton Friedman believed the “long and variable lags” of active monetary policy made its goal of hitting an inflation target essentially unachievable. Central bankers invoked these flaws earlier in this cycle to allay fears of runaway

This article is an on-site version of our Britain after Brexit newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every week Good afternoon and happy fourth anniversary to all the good burghers of Brexitland.  You might think, four years after the UK formally quit the EU, there wouldn’t be much