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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. Jürgen Klopp is to leave Liverpool FC at the end of the season after saying he has “run out of energy”, bringing the reign of one of the most successful managers in English football to

Elon Musk wants you to know he’s a bit bored of cars. He built a ridiculous one but it didn’t make him happy. He turned the EV industry pacesetter into a mass-market producer of generic-vehicle-shaped-objects, which didn’t make him happy. He put the world’s most valuable marque on knick-knacks for the purpose of owning the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There was a slight gasp among my headset-wearing neighbours in the World Economic Forum’s congress hall when Javier Milei blamed all political movements except his own for the west’s woes. “Whether they proclaim to be

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The International Energy Agency has warned of volatile gas prices this year, with conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine creating “an unusually wide range of uncertainty” in its forecasts. The west’s energy watchdog said

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s xAI is in talks to raise up to $6bn, as the Tesla and X chief looks to global investors, including in Hong Kong, to finance his challenge to Microsoft-backed OpenAI. The billionaire’s artificial

During the winter, when there are no leaves on the trees, Jeanette Gilmour can clearly hear the sound of the M6 motorway from her home in the village of Audley. But she is worried that the rumble of background noise might soon become a big problem. The farmer’s field between the motorway and her village

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Companies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. I loathe watching a bargain crumble click by click, crushed under the weight of unexpected charges. These irritants are known as “dripped fees” or “junk fees”, but other names came to mind including “situational-monopolist fees”, “too-exhausted-to-resist

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the most well-established patterns in measuring public opinion is that every generation tends to move as one in terms of its politics and general ideology. Its members share the same formative experiences, reach

His wavy hair billowing in the wind, Rashed al-Haddad looked into the camera as his dinghy neared the Israeli-linked cargo vessel that has become an unlikely tourist attraction since it was seized late last year by Houthi rebels. In a video recorded in the shadow of the Galaxy Leader, now languishing off the Yemen coast,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government’s top migration adviser has accused ministers of taking a “do as I say, not as I do attitude” by forcing the private sector to pay high wages for skilled workers, while allowing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK consumer confidence reached a two-year high in January, according to research company GfK, in the latest positive sign for the economy. The consumer confidence index, which measures people’s views of their finances as well

The S&P 500 notched its fifth consecutive record close on Thursday, with the market making broad gains after solid economic growth data. The blue-chip index traded choppily in the afternoon, but eventually closed 0.5 per cent higher for the day, with more than three-quarters of stocks in the index rising. The energy sector led the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon has shuffled his leadership team and consolidated some of the bank’s businesses, grooming potential candidates who could eventually take over from him. The leadership changes give new responsibilities to

About £75mn of assets linked to Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her husband have been frozen or restrained by court order as the pair face a National Crime Agency investigation into alleged PPE fraud. The court order seen by the Financial Times covers assets including a six-bedroom Belgravia townhouse, a country estate on the Isle

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’s hopes of offering big pre-election tax cuts have suffered a setback after the Treasury produced internal forecasts suggesting he will have only limited scope for giveaways. The Treasury’s internal analysis said

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. New EU digital regulations will worsen the experience of users of Apple’s products and expose them to security risks, a senior executive at the iPhone maker has claimed. Phil Schiller, who heads up Apple’s App

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. England’s senior doctors have narrowly rejected a government pay offer aimed at averting further industrial action, as the NHS contends with one of its toughest winters on record. The British Medical Association called on the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s foreign ministry has written to diplomatic missions in the country to ask if they have back-up generators and satellite phones in case of a “security escalation”, amid fears its war with Hamas could spiral

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak’s allies have claimed that supporters of ex-home secretary Suella Braverman are running an “embarrassing” campaign to bring down the prime minister, at the end of another week of Tory infighting. The claim has

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into the partnerships between Big Tech cloud providers and generative AI companies, targeting the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and OpenAI with demands for more information about their

Should the Federal Reserve cut policy rates in March? If you look at the so-called Taylor rule — named after the legendary American economist John B Taylor — the answer is a definite “yes”. After all, this formula — which projects the optimal rate using variables such as price levels, unemployment and real income —