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Global chief executives including Apple’s Tim Cook, ExxonMobil chair Darren Woods and HSBC’s Noel Quinn will attend China’s version of Davos in Beijing this weekend, as international criticism mounts that Chinese industrial oversupply could lead to a “slow-motion train accident” for world trade. Almost 90 CEOs, as well as heads of multilateral organisations such as

The Bank of England governor has signalled markets are right to expect more than one interest rate cut this year, saying he is increasingly confident inflation is heading towards target. Andrew Bailey told the Financial Times that rate cuts were “in play” at future meetings of the BoE Monetary Policy Committee amid signs that tighter

When Stephanie Cohen joined Goldman Sachs right out of college 25 years ago, even her fellow analysts could tell the fast-talking Chicago native was going to go far. Fizzing with energy, she was “scarily smart” and thrived on the long hours investment banking required. Blunt yet very funny, she joined the elite partner ranks while

Last November, Meta started offering users in the EU a new version of Facebook and Instagram. In exchange for as much as €12.99 per month, the company promised neither to process data for personalised adverts, nor to show any ads at all. I dislike being hounded to buy stuff, and watched with envy. Could changing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When US political strategist James Carville, then a senior aide to presidential candidate Bill Clinton, declared that one of the keys to winning the 1992 election was “the economy, stupid”, he was stating one of

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, warning the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The

A famed Apple advertising campaign exhorted customers to “think different”. In a sweeping antitrust lawsuit the US on Thursday alleged that the iPhone maker had betrayed that slogan, locking millions of its users into a powerful monopoly that has made it one of the most valuable companies in the world. The long-awaited lawsuit is a watershed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK consumers’ confidence about their personal finances has hit the highest level in more than two years, according to a closely watched survey. Research company GfK said on Friday that people’s outlook on their own

FedEx has lifted its full-year earnings guidance, sending shares 12 per cent higher in after-hours trading on Thursday even as the company missed sales and profit expectations for its most recent quarter. The logistics group, a bellwether for global growth, forecast adjusted earnings of $17.25 to $18.25 a share for the fiscal year, up from

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A legal stand-off between Donald Trump and a former business partner is coming to a head, with a vote set to determine whether or not the former US president can unlock a potential $3.5bn windfall

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. FT correspondent Josh Oliver spent years covering crypto and the legal troubles of Sam Bankman-Fried. Last week, he published Hype Machine, a book about it all. Today he joins us to talk about SBF’s sentencing next

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the years it has taken Nvidia’s graphical processing units, first developed for video gaming, to find their way to the centre of the computing world, chief executive Jensen Huang has been nothing if not

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Republican Speaker of the House plans to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, in a move likely to deepen tensions between the White House and Israel over the war in Gaza. The speech would

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels is actively exploring how to work around an EU treaty clause prohibiting arms purchases from the union’s budget, as it steps up efforts to increase financing for defence and Ukraine. The European Commission, the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in social media company Reddit leapt more than 38 per cent on its market debut, in a vote of confidence for initial public offerings after two years of subdued activity. The stock opened at

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is chair of the Investor Coalition for Equal Votes and senior investment manager at Railpen This week Reddit has gone public on the New York Stock Exchange in a highly anticipated listing. However,

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Property sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. That doughty — somewhat dull — Canadian insurance company known as Manulife does not often attract attention. This week, however, it caused a frisson in the real estate world. Shortly before Jay Powell, Federal Reserve

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Markus Jooste, the former chief executive of retailer Steinhoff allegedly at the heart of South Africa’s largest corporate fraud back in 2017, has died, according to a person close to him. Jooste’s death comes a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US is suing Apple for allegedly using its power in the smartphone sector to quash competition from rivals and limit consumer choice, in the latest broadside against the dominant Big Tech companies from Joe

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former central banker and a professor of finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business The push for international openness to trade and capital flows has always been an

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’, distinguished fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics and an FT contributing editor A year has passed since Saudi Arabia and Iran made their