Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK mortgage approvals sank in September to the lowest since January 2023 while money supply contracted further, according to official data that reflects the impact of high interest rates on lending days before the Bank
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A newly elected far right German politician has been arrested for sedition and possession of Nazi materials after a tense manhunt over the weekend. Daniel Halemba, 22, had been due to take up his seat
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Historians are fascinated by the outbreak of the first world war. How could the assassination of an Austrian archduke in Sarajevo in June 1914 have led, just a few weeks later, to a conflict that
A video screengrab shows pro-Palestinian protesters storming the airport in Makhachkala © via REUTERS Russian police have arrested 60 people after an angry antisemitic mob stormed an airport in the southern city of Makhachkala on Monday, some waving Palestinian flags and searching for Jews among passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv on Sunday. Police
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel expanded its ground operations in Gaza, bombed targets in Syria and carried out a raid in the occupied West Bank overnight, as its war with Hamas militants sent tensions rising across the Middle East.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. David Solomon started at Goldman Sachs in 1999, joining in his mid-30s from the scruffy Bear Stearns, as a partner in the junk bond group of the investment bank he now runs. Alan Waxman came
Injured in an Israeli strike, Omar Ahmed’s treatment at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, is the story of a medical system close to collapse. During his five days on the ward, he has never had a moment without pain. His burns were cleaned without anaesthetic and he was left to recover with
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel and Hamas have continued indirect negotiations over the release of civilian hostages seized by the Palestinian militant group, despite Israeli ground forces moving deeper into the besieged enclave of Gaza. A Qatari official said
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. HSBC has announced up to $3bn in additional share buybacks, taking total buybacks to $7bn this year, as the bank said higher interest rates were continuing to boost its growth. The move came even as
The Bank of England is likely to hold rates unchanged at their highest levels since before the financial crisis this week, signalling the battle against stubborn inflation is far from over despite evidence of weakening growth. The bank’s Monetary Policy Committee will opt to keep the benchmark rate at 5.25 per cent, according to pricing
It was during her maternity leave that Megan Gray, a corporate lawyer at an elite international firm, realised she could not return to her job as it was. “In corporate, transactional practices the model is being always on, always working, with no shut-off or delineation between work and home,” she says. “I started thinking how
A record number of companies have dropped plans to list on Shanghai’s tech-focused stock market, with regulators raising the bar for initial public offerings in order to pick out domestic champions that can help Beijing’s drive towards technological self-sufficiency. Public records show 126 companies have cancelled or suspended IPO applications on Shanghai’s Star Market so
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A mob stormed the main airport in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan late on Sunday, brandishing Palestinian flags and reportedly searching for Israeli passengers from a flight that had landed from Tel Aviv earlier
Israel responded to Hamas’s devastating assault on October 7 with the biggest mobilisation in the nation’s history. But when its tanks and troops finally entered Gaza this weekend, it was not the full-scale invasion some had expected. Current and former officials said the seemingly limited scope of Israel’s initial incursion — which Benjamin Netanyahu, the
A record number of companies have dropped plans to list on Shanghai’s tech-focused stock market, with regulators raising the bar for initial public offerings in order to pick out domestic champions that can help Beijing’s drive towards technological self-sufficiency. Public records show 126 companies have cancelled or suspended IPO applications on Shanghai’s Star Market so
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thousands of Palestinians broke into Gaza’s aid warehouses over the weekend, as a UN official warned that the current system for bringing humanitarian relief into the besieged territory was inadequate and “set up to fail”.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has become embroiled in a bitter row with the Israeli government after offering to provide satellite internet to Gaza, which ministers say Hamas will use for “terrorist purposes”. The argument was ignited by
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Five UK insurance broking groups have signed up to a pledge to stop sharing buildings insurance commissions with landlords and to cap their own fees, in a move the government said would significantly reduce costs
Dalal, a prominent Palestinian with Israeli citizenship who made her name as a folk singer, went to the police earlier this month to report online threats made against her. But it was Dalal who found herself arrested — seemingly for posting a Palestinian flag on social media, alongside the religious phrase “no victor but God”,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to apologise on Sunday after a furious backlash from across the political spectrum over his claim that Israel’s security establishment had not warned him of Hamas’s plan to attack the country.
Israel has pressed on with its ground offensive in Gaza for a second night as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country had launched a new phase of its “long and hard” war to destroy Hamas. Daniel Hagari, IDF spokesman, said on Sunday that Israel had sent more troops into Gaza overnight and combat operations