Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US House of Representatives has voted to censure Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic representative from Michigan, accusing her of “promoting false narratives” about the Hamas attacks on Israel and “calling for the destruction”
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First came a month-long aerial bombardment. Then Israeli armour and infantry moved in behind a rolling barrage of air and artillery strikes that cut besieged Gaza in half and isolated Hamas’s military stronghold in the north of the territory. The encirclement this week of Gaza City by Israeli forces is the latest step in their
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a science commentator The machinery of government can move surprisingly quickly, especially when oiled by outrage. Within days of the UK’s leading scientific research funding agency assembling an advisory committee on equality, diversity
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Central banks are at odds over how to respond to a possible jump in energy prices should the Israel-Hamas war escalate. While rate-setters have conventionally ignored volatility in the energy markets, central bank heads in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google and some of Europe’s largest telecoms operators have called on Brussels to designate iMessage as a “core” service that would require Apple to make the chat app fully compatible with rivals. The European Commission,
Rivian plans to make an additional 2,000 vehicles this year, while cutting its full-year projection for adjusted losses to $4bn. The California carmaker said it would make 54,000 trucks and vans this year, rather than the 52,000 it forecast in August. It cited improvements in the supply chain and increased production of the motors it
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK employment myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK recruiters registered a sharp rise in the number of people looking for work last month, according to a survey published on Wednesday, as companies being squeezed by higher interest rates and slowing demand cut
Two of the world’s biggest private equity firms have reported starkly diverging fortunes as KKR boosted its fundraising expectations while Carlyle axed jobs as part of a cost-cutting drive. The results on Tuesday underscored how the two investment groups, which were roughly the same size a decade ago, have since moved apart, with KKR boasting
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cravath, Swaine & Moore, the elite US law firm that has customarily set the pay standard for its peers, has established a non-equity partner tier, in a departure from its traditional structure designed to reward
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Oil prices tumbled to the lowest in more than three months on Tuesday, reversing all gains made since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, with hedge funds betting that the conflict will not
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Voters are heading to the polls in several states across the US on Tuesday, in off-year elections that will be seen as an indicator of which way the political winds are blowing for President Joe
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Britain’s accounting watchdog has abandoned most of its overhaul of boardroom rules, a move it says protects competitiveness but which critics say marks the unravelling of long-promised corporate governance reforms. Richard Moriarty, Financial Reporting
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey has raised $2.5bn in its first deal on the dollar bond market since April as the country’s broad economic policy shift lures back investors who abandoned Turkish assets in recent years. The country received
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On November 19 1919, the US Senate repudiated the Versailles Treaty. With that decision, the US withdrew its might from maintaining what had been agreed in the aftermath of the first world war, leaving this
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ and distinguished fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics Lebanon, and perhaps much of the world, breathed a sigh of relief on Friday when Hassan Nasrallah, leader
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Portuguese prime minister António Costa resigned hours after prosecutors issued arrest warrants and raided government buildings in a corruption investigation that reached his inner circle. Costa, a Socialist who has led Portugal since 2015, said
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Short-term UK gilts rallied sharply on Tuesday as traders seized on comments from a senior Bank of England policymaker suggesting it may be willing to consider interest rate cuts in the middle of next year. The
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 Central banks have had one consistent message over the past two weeks — “we are not close to cutting interest rates”. Financial markets were listening, of course,
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK grocery inflation has slowed to single digits for the first time in 16 months, according to sector data that will add to hopes of food prices normalising in the coming months after a long
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. King Charles III on Tuesday set out the 21 pieces of legislation that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes will frame the next UK general election, as the countdown started to polling day. The King’s Speech,