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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Foreign direct investment into China is falling across multiple measures, adding to pressure on Beijing and local governments as they seek to counter an economic slowdown. Financial Times calculations based on Chinese commerce ministry data

The grainy video shows the roof of a building in southern Gaza. As the camera zooms in closer, steel tubes come into view. Then there is a sudden flash, and the building explodes. The footage is from a series of recordings taken last week by Israel Defense Forces of its bombing campaign of Gaza. In

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Artificial intelligence start-ups are overvalued and most will fail to make money, according to Vinod Khosla, an early OpenAI backer, in a warning to investors who are pouring billions into the buzzy sector.   Since the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK home insurance prices are expected to rise by more than a third over the next two years, according to a new forecast, as insurers respond to their worst year for underwriting in decades by

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Rishi Sunak’s government will seek to strengthen the BBC’s governance arrangements overseeing impartiality and complaints, the culture secretary has said, after criticism of the corporation’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Lucy Frazer told the Financial Times

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gazans have endured their heaviest night of Israeli bombardment from air, land and sea since the start of the war three weeks ago. The overnight attacks have led to hundreds of deaths and the destruction

As convoys of Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers rumbled across wasteland into Gaza on Friday evening, it marked the beginning of a new phase in the war. Whether it will prove to be the full-scale invasion that Israel has been threatening, or more limited but sustained incursions into the besieged coastal strip, the escalation

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel said its Gaza offensive was “advancing” after fighting through the night in a significantly expanded ground operation under the cover of an intense aerial bombardment that has knocked out most communications in the enclave.

An Israeli soldier on a tank near the border with Gaza © HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The Israeli army’s latest incursion into Gaza appears to be its largest yet, in what military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari described as “advancing in the phases of the war.” The army still appears be within the northern edges of the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tesla owners must be choking on their kale smoothies. Auto insurers have rapidly boosted prices for electric vehicle cover in the past year, much more than for fossil fuel cars. Indeed, John Lewis has suspended

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Morgan Stanley’s soon-to-be chief executive Ted Pick and his two top lieutenants were granted restricted stock units that could net them tens of millions of dollars each in connection with their new roles. Morgan Stanley

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The S&P 500 stock index has fallen more than 10 per cent from the high point it touched earlier this year, meeting the popular definition of a market “correction” as investors fret about interest rates,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than a dozen Conservative MPs are seeking re-election in a different seat to the one they now represent, sparking an angry backlash in some quarters of Britain’s governing party. Internal Tory critics have accused

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Heavy-hitting investors are snapping up US government bonds with longer maturities, betting the pain in the Treasury market is nearly over and an elusive slowdown in the US economy may be on the horizon. Money

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s military said on Friday night that its ground forces were ramping up their operations in the Gaza Strip, as its air force launched an intense bombardment that knocked out the enclave’s telecommunications systems. Israel’s

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 Palestinian poet, short story writer and essayist from Gaza During this war, whenever one discovers that a friend, colleague or “old” neighbour is staying in a place nearby, a feeling of

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 senior counsellor at Centerview Partners, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former US diplomat To my Israeli friends: I won’t presume to say I understand all you

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At this ugly juncture of history, Sir Keir Starmer finds himself facing perhaps his most public test of leadership. His outrage at the Hamas atrocities of October 7, his belief that Israel must be allowed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hamas has admitted surprise that its brutal attack on Israel this month prompted a muscular US response, with Washington deploying carrier strike groups, air-defence systems and thousands of troops to the region.  Ali Barakeh, a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European capitals face US pressure to broaden and reinforce their sanctions on Hamas, as Washington pushes for a tougher financial clampdown on the group.  US deputy Treasury secretary Wally Adeyemo said in London on Friday

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Divisions within the Labour party over Sir Keir Starmer’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war deepened on Friday after two prominent mayors and the party’s leader in Scotland broke ranks by demanding a ceasefire. Sadiq Khan,