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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the ESG investing myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Launches of funds claiming environmental, social or governance attributes all but dried up in the past six months, as investors baulked at increased scrutiny of sustainability claims by companies and asset managers.  Just six funds
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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 dramatic blowout of a section of the fuselage on an Alaska Airlines flight has put the focus back on Boeing’s 737 Max — the US company’s most popular plane and also its biggest source
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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 underlying idea of democracy — that governments are accountable to the governed — is still valued in large parts of the world. How else is one to explain the fact that more than half
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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. French president Emmanuel Macron has promoted his popular 34-year-old education minister Gabriel Attal to prime minister as he seeks to reboot a second term hindered by a fractured parliament. The Élysée Palace confirmed the choice
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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. Barclays and Santander have announced cuts to their mortgage rates, adding to momentum for cheaper UK home loan deals after HSBC and Halifax reduced rates last week.  Santander led its announcement with a sub-4 per
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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. Two months ago, ITV thought it had found a way to hijack the UK’s national political conversation: pay arch-Brexiter Nigel Farage £1.5mn to appear on the reality show I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here.
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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. Last autumn, Rishi Sunak stopped pretending that HS2 was a conscionable use of finite public resources. He wasn’t thanked. In fact, for scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the high-speed rail line, the prime
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Sentiment analysis is tablestakes quant stuff these days. Any slack-jawed yokel with a Bloomberg terminal can now systematically parse and trade central banker comments or newspaper chatter. However, most only use exhaust from social media,
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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. Shares in recruitment group Hays fell by almost a fifth on Tuesday after it warned that its half-year profits were likely to come in below expectations. The UK-based company blamed a “clear slowdown” in global
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UK ministers are examining plans for a blanket exoneration of hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in what has been described as the biggest miscarriage of justice in modern British history. Justice secretary Alex Chalk will this week discuss with senior members of the judiciary swifter redress for those prosecuted by the Post Office for theft
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center and special adviser to the European Commission After years of wrangling, a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 per cent is finally
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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. Bain & Company has picked the head of its European private equity advisory business to be its next global chief executive, as the consulting group deals with an industry slowdown and the fallout from a
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