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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 US Federal Reserve held interest rates at a 23-year high on Wednesday, but gave little immediate indication of when it would begin cutting borrowing costs this year. The Federal Open Market Committee’s decision to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Arc’teryx apparel brand owner Amer Sports is poised to raise less money than hoped in the largest US initial public offering since October, in the latest sign of investor caution amid a tentative reopening in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An Informa employee attempted to deny an Israeli company access to an event in London, underlining the tensions western corporations must manage as the conflict in the Middle East rages. An employee at the publishing-to-events

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was pushed to publicly apologise to the families of people who said they had been harmed by his social media platform, a dramatic moment in a heated congressional hearing over child safety

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer’s opposition Labour party will step up efforts to woo the private sector on Thursday by hosting a “business day” for 400 corporate leaders. That tickets reportedly sold out within hours suggests it

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US Treasury will hold some of its largest-ever debt auctions in the coming three months in an effort to fill the yawning federal budget deficit. The Treasury said on Wednesday it would increase the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. German chancellor Olaf Scholz slammed the far-right Alternative for Germany’s plans for “Dexit”, saying any move to leave the EU would be catastrophic for the bloc’s largest economy. “That would be the biggest destroyer of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak has hailed “the prospect of power-sharing back up and running” within days in Northern Ireland, as the UK government published details of a plan to revive the Stormont executive. The prime minister said

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boeing withheld its usual financial guidance for the coming year and vowed to focus on the safety and quality of its operations, as the US plane maker tries to stem the fallout from a mid-air

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US government bonds made their biggest gains of the year on Wednesday, after weak employment data spurred investor bets on an early interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. The two-year US Treasury yield, which

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Brussels has made a last-minute offer to Hungary’s prime minister in a bid to secure his support for the bloc’s €50bn financial aid to Ukraine, amid frenzied diplomatic efforts to reach a deal at

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak’s Conservative critics are not wrong. The prime minister is leading their party over a cliff. The only flaw in their analysis is the failure to see that their demands for extreme solutions are

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The difference between a Donald Trump or Joe Biden victory in November could be the future of the US republic. But it does not follow that a Biden second term would bring an end to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Former UK chancellor George Osborne has joined the advisory council of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, as the company faces increasing regulatory scrutiny. The San Francisco-based exchange is expanding in jurisdictions ranging from Singapore to Bermuda, and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In retrospect, it was personal. The fact that Elon Musk’s personal lawyer had acted as general counsel of Tesla made all the difference. On Monday, a Delaware corporate law court ruled that a 2018 remuneration

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An Iraqi militia said it has suspended its operations against US troops in the region, days after three US soldiers were killed in a drone attack on a base in Jordan that Washington blamed on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a science commentator Witchweed, a parasitic plant, is scarier than any fictional triffid. It feasts on sorghum — a crop used across Africa for food, construction and industrial processing — by clinging

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The French government is pushing British ministers to provide loan guarantees for Hinkley Point C to try to ease EDF’s financing costs on Britain’s new flagship nuclear power station as its price tag has soared.

When Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, walked into a conference room in Tel Aviv on January 18, he did not realise the meeting would trigger the deepest crisis in the 75-year-old organisation’s history. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) had survived several wars, combative relations with

This is part of a series, “Economists Exchange”, featuring conversations between top FT commentators and leading economists The potential of generative artificial intelligence dominated discussions at Davos this month. Business leaders and policymakers are wondering if last year’s hype over large language models (LLMs), which fuelled a stock market rally, will actually be matched by