Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chief executive of Boeing said the company would acknowledge “our mistake” after one of its 737 Max aircraft lost a section of its fuselage in flight last week, as a regulator said it would
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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 UK government awarded billions of pounds of contracts involving Fujitsu on Rishi Sunak’s watch after the Japanese company’s software was found to be at fault in the Post Office scandal in a landmark 2019
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
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
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
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
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
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump is attending a federal appeals court hearing in Washington on Tuesday to determine whether he is immune from criminal prosecution for his alleged actions while serving in the White House. The oral argument
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Post Office’s former chief executive Paula Vennells will hand back her CBE after the UK prime minister backed calls for a review into whether she should be stripped of her honour. Vennells said in
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.
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
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,
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
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
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has called on Boeing to improve quality control, warning his airline’s profits will fall and fares will rise because of manufacturing issues plaguing the US group and its rival Airbus. Both
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Substack is to email newsletters what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners in the UK and Colgate to toothpaste in Zambia: none of the companies involved created the original product, but they did so much to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The hunger for appetite-suppressing drugs remains unsatiated. Weight loss treatments are tipped to rake in $80bn a year by 2030. Danish pioneer Novo Nordisk and rival Eli Lilly have made the running. But others are
In Jiaxing, a manufacturing town on the outskirts of Shanghai, 400 steel industry executives and engineers gathered last November to tackle an enormous task: weaning the world’s biggest steel producer off coal-fired blast furnaces. The subject is of burning political urgency. The Chinese government is trying to decarbonise a sector that relies heavily on coal
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
The 230-tonne metal cylinder emits a roaring hum as it spins at 600 revolutions per minute, driving a pump buried underground that brings new meaning to the idea of pushing water up a hill. Far from the analogy of an impossible task, it is the core of a Portuguese power plant aiming to show that