Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accounting & Consulting services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. KPMG has underscored its position as laggard of the Big Four after it posted the slowest growth in global sales among the accountancy and consulting firms during the latest financial year. The smallest
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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. New Hampshire’s Republican governor Chris Sununu endorsed Nikki Haley for president, in a boost for the former South Carolina governor as she challenges Donald Trump for the GOP nomination for the White House in 2024.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Netflix, the streaming service that has been long criticised for a lack of transparency about how shows and films perform on its platform, will begin publishing a “comprehensive deep dive” into what its subscribers are
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak may have won in the Commons on Tuesday night, but victory came at no little cost to his authority and followed allegations of the government deploying “dark arts” tactics. The crunch vote followed
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden has said Benjamin Netanyahu must change tack, warning that Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza risked leaving the country isolated. Offering his harshest criticism of the Israeli prime minister’s far-right coalition since Israel began
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK “muddles through”. That was the theme of an excellent recent book by Duncan Weldon. Yet muddling through is no longer enough. This was the argument of my column a week ago, which was
Washington expects the most intensive phase of Israel’s war on Hamas in southern Gaza to be scaled back and become more targeted as soon as early January, US officials said. Israel still has military aims in Gaza’s south that justify its continued assault around Khan Younis and other areas where senior Hamas militants are thought
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US inflation edged lower to 3.1 per cent for November, bolstering arguments by Federal Reserve officials that interest rates should remain at current levels during the spring. The headline consumer price index figure fell marginally
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Harvard’s board has given Claudine Gay its full backing to remain as the university’s president after her Congressional testimony on campus antisemitism stirred furious backlash and a movement to oust her. The board announced its
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Yemen’s Houthis have attacked a Norwegian tanker in the strategically important Bab-el-Mandeb strait, in the latest sign that the Iran-backed group is extending its targeting of ships in the critical trade route.
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Federal Reserve should be required to stress test US banks’ ability to “withstand a potential sudden loss of market access to China”, according to a congressional committee. The proposed legislative change was among dozens
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An asylum seeker has died on board the Bibby Stockholm barge that is accommodating more than 250 men as part of the UK’s plan to toughen conditions for migrants and cut the cost of housing
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 Three leading central banks meet this week to set interest rates with the Federal Reserve due to give its verdict on Wednesday, followed swiftly by the European
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak supported Brexit before Boris Johnson did. He argued for looser lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic. He put a great office of state in the hands of as strident a conservative as Suella Braverman.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak has mounted a last-minute operation to save his Rwanda migration bill as Conservative rebels demanded he pull the legislation before a House of Commons vote on Tuesday evening. Sunak held breakfast talks in
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK employment myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK wage growth eased in the three months to October as a decline in vacancies became the longest on record, adding to evidence that the labour market is softening. Average pay grew by 7.3 per
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. German insurers including Munich Re and Allianz have amassed more than €3bn of exposure to the struggling property empire owned by real estate billionaire René Benko. The network of firms in Benko’s Signa group not
In 1989, Michael Lewis chronicled the excesses of Wall Street in his seminal book Liar’s Poker, named for a game of chance on which traders gambled thousands of dollars. But the sums wagered by Lewis’s colleagues pale in comparison to those deployed within the world’s most profitable law firm. Partners at Kirkland & Ellis 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 director of the Center-Left Renewal project at the Progressive Policy Institute and former Labour executive director of policy 2020-22 As the Labour party looks increasingly likely to form the next UK government,
India’s appeal to the likes of Apple as a “China plus one” manufacturing hub may depend on how the country and foreign investors resolve one glaring issue: how and where to get enough workers in the right place. In China, hundreds of millions of migrant workers played a crucial role in the country’s rise as
12/12/2023, 1:56:59 AM Google loses antitrust lawsuit against Epic over its app store Michael Acton in San Francisco A federal jury on Monday found against Google in a lawsuit brought by Epic, the company behind popular video game Fortnite, which accused the search giant of suppressing competition in the Android app market to secure billions