Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Deloitte is rolling out a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to 75,000 employees across Europe and the Middle East to create power point presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity. The
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A pile-up of bad debt threatens to sour investors’ growing optimism about the prospects for the US’s largest banks when they report fourth-quarter earnings this week. Non-performing loans — debt tied to borrowers who have
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is head of research at Barclays Regulators and investors are worried about the fragility of government bond and funding markets. This is understandable. These markets are vital for financing governments, for monetary policy
In the worst of her mania, Isobel Hallett planned to put her magical powers to use by jumping off the local viaduct and flying over the town of Knaresborough in Yorkshire. “People telling me ‘you can’t fly’ just made me cross,” Hallett says of her first fully manic episode in May 2022. She was subsequently
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Forget the S&P 500, and the frenzied excitement of recent weeks as the US index flirted with record levels. The FTSE MIB index of Italy’s 40 biggest stocks is where the real boom story is
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. This may be the year that content creators finally fight back against surveillance capitalism. Over the past few weeks, there have been multiple lawsuits filed by news providers large and small, as well as comedians,
Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill have reached a $1.66tn agreement on the level of US federal spending for 2024, in a breakthrough that moves Congress one step closer to avoiding a costly government shutdown. The news was jointly announced on Sunday by Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, and Mike Johnson, the
Rishi Sunak, prime minister, will on Monday claim that Britain enters an expected election year “pointing in the right direction”, as he put the promise of tax cuts at the heart of his attempt to revive Tory fortunes. Sunak is attempting to emulate John Major’s unlikely 1992 Tory election win by deploying the same core
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill have reached an agreement on the level of federal spending for 2024, in a breakthrough that moves Congress closer to avoiding a costly government shutdown. The news was
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Members of the RMT union have called off a week of strikes across the London Underground network after a late breakthrough in discussions with Transport for London, the capital’s public transit body. The UK’s largest
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A dangerous mid-air breach in the fuselage of a 737 Max is just the latest production lapse at Boeing, raising questions about whether the manufacturer can deliver a quality product as it strives to build
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has taken the blame for concealing his hospitalisation this week in a breach of protocol that left US President Joe Biden in the dark about his health. The
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the next 12 months, voters in countries representing more than half of the world’s population will get the chance to head to the ballot box — a record-breaking year for democracy. And yet in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Federal investigators in the US have launched a probe into how a section of a new Boeing 737 Max blew out mid-flight, as airlines in Turkey and Panama grounded their planes for inspection. The withdrawals
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military says it has successfully destroyed Hamas as an organised fighting force in northern Gaza and has shifted its focus to the centre and south of the battered territory in a fresh stage
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European Council president Charles Michel has announced he will run in EU-wide elections in June in a move that would force him to step down early from his current role if elected and could hand
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two-thirds of Republican voters say they trust Donald Trump more than any other GOP presidential candidate to manage the US economy, according to an FT-Michigan Ross survey that underscores his dominance on bread-and-butter issues a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A G20-led push to speed up international payments risks enabling financial crime and hindering the enforcement of sanctions against Russia and other states, industry experts have warned. The plans to make digital payment systems more
Russia’s record number of aerial attacks on Ukraine over the New Year period has highlighted Kyiv’s struggle to bolster its electronic warfare technology aimed at jamming and diverting enemy drones and guided missiles. Both sides have invested heavily in systems that can neutralise each other’s drone armies, but Moscow maintains the upper hand as it
Russia’s presidential election in March will not be an election, in the sense of a genuinely competitive contest, at all. Every Russian voter knows in advance that President Vladimir Putin will win. This ritual will nonetheless throw useful light on four aspects of the country’s political system — sycophancy, persecution, vulgarity and conspiracy theories. Another
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I can’t pinpoint the precise time it happened but my transformation from a great parent to an embarrassing one was reinforced the other day when I casually dropped “rizz” into a conversation at home. It