Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If anyone is as excited about Nikki Haley’s second-place finish in New Hampshire as Donald Trump, it would be the man who watched Tuesday night’s returns from the White House. Joe Biden’s campaign has been
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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. Donald Trump will win the New Hampshire Republican primary, the Associated Press projected on Tuesday night, cementing his frontrunner status and raising questions about whether Nikki Haley would end her bid for the White House.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump continued his romp through the Republican presidential primaries on Tuesday with a victory in New Hampshire, where he was on track to win a comfortable majority, with 53 per cent of the vote
US stocks ticked higher on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 closing at a record high for the third session in a row. The benchmark ended the day 0.3 per cent higher, notching a four-session winning streak, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 0.4 per cent. The 10-year Treasury yield rose 0.05 percentage points to 4.14
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Conservative MPs must oust Rishi Sunak or risk “extinction”, a former cabinet minister said on Tuesday, amid growing rightwing pressure on the prime minister. Sir Simon Clarke aimed a volley of criticism at Sunak, saying
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey’s parliament has voted in favour of Sweden joining Nato, marking a significant step forward in the Scandinavian country’s long-fought bid to enter the western military alliance. The vote late on Tuesday paves the way
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s flagship Hinkley Point C nuclear plant has been delayed until 2029 at the earliest and could end up costing up to £35bn, or nearly twice the initial budget, in the latest blow to a
Last week, I discussed five long-term drivers of the world economy — demography, climate change, technological advance, the global spread of knowhow and economic growth itself. This week I will look at shocks, risks and fragilities. Together, I suggest, all these shape the economy in which we live. A “shock” is a realised risk. Risks,
On the sidelines of Donald Trump’s Monday night rally in New Hampshire, several supporters shared their reasons for backing the former president. Debra O’Donnell, 53 a former pre-school teacher wearing a T-shirt saying “Jesus is my saviour, Trump is my president”, lamented high inflation and rampant immigration, and that the US was losing its “boundaries
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK asset manager Abrdn is preparing to make hundreds of job cuts as part of a drive to cut about £150mn in costs. The cuts could amount to about 10 per cent of Abrdn’s 5,000-strong
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bitcoin has lost 16 per cent of its value over the past two weeks, as some investors use the much-hyped launch of bitcoin exchange traded funds earlier this month to take profits and exit their
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia’s war in Ukraine has turned into “a battle of ammunition”, Nato’s head has warned, as supply shortages have forced Kyiv’s military to ration artillery rounds. “Increased production of ammunition is an absolute necessity
This article is an on-site version of our Chris Giles on Central Banks newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Tuesday It has been a difficult week for the small army of economists at the European Central Bank. Many will be reeling from the tongue-lashing they received from
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli forces suffered their most deadly day since the start of the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza, with 24 Israeli soldiers killed, most of them in a single incident. Reservist units were clearing houses
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, has warned his party to avoid “nostalgia” about Britain’s NHS, saying it needed reform rather than just extra money. Streeting prompted criticism from the left of the party after
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. With Donald Trump on an apparent glide path to the Republican party’s nomination for the White House, another race is under way: to be his running mate. Back in 2016, Trump landed on Mike Pence,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government borrowed much less than expected in December, in a boost to chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s plans to cut taxes ahead of this year’s expected general election. Public sector borrowing fell to £7.8bn last
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is editorial director and a columnist at Le Monde Emmanuel Macron burst on to the European scene in 2017 as the innovative politician who stopped the populist wave then sweeping Britain, America, Italy
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Investments myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Passive investment is a reasonably simple process that generates more than its fair share of bellyaching. Users love it. Rather than poring over spreadsheets to try to beat the broader market, investors from have-a-go punters to
The battle between Donald Trump and Nikki Haley has emerged as a contest of competing foreign policy visions, with voters in New Hampshire set to deliver a verdict on America’s role in the world, including on whether to keep funding Ukraine. The vote in the New England state on Tuesday could represent an early watershed
The International Court of Justice has heard its share of high-profile cases. But few have been as closely watched, or as politically explosive, as South Africa’s suit alleging that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the war in Gaza. A final ruling on South Africa’s claims — which Israel has furiously denied as