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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US Treasury bonds myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Global bond markets have been through a mincing machine in the past few weeks, inflicting pain on everyone from retail investors to insurance companies. Alarmingly, it is not obvious why. But the competing schools
In 1997, the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó met another struggling researcher, the American immunologist Drew Weissman, as they queued to photocopy scientific papers at the University of Pennsylvania. After commiserating about the lack of funding for their work, the two scientists found a common scientific interest — the genetic molecule RNA — and decided to
When Robert Sharpe met UK financial regulators at the Bank of England on Thursday morning, he was in familiar territory. In the four years since he had been installed as chair of Metro Bank — the high street lender once feted as the darling of Britain’s challenger banks — his diary had been filled with
A vacancy opened up on Tuesday for the world’s most thankless job: Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Whoever takes the role of the presiding officer of America’s lower house should brace for accusations of betrayal by fellow Republicans and schadenfreude from opposition Democrats. Assuming they can stomach that, the new Speaker will
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Donald Trump myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Donald Trump has claimed in a lawsuit filed in London that he suffered “reputational damage and distress” as a result of the controversial Russia dossier compiled by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele. The former US
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Metro Bank myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A group of Metro Bank bondholders contacted the UK lender’s board on Monday offering a £600mn capital injection, but the company has yet to accept the offer, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Retail sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Just as Dame Sharon White is breaking up with the John Lewis Partnership, many of its once-loyal customers have already left the brand. The shortest-reigning chair in the partnership’s history announced this week she would
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the The FT View myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Now that interest rates are at, or near, their peak, attention has turned to how long they will stay elevated. Central bankers, wary of being complacent on inflation, have united behind a mantra of
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Lex myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Metro Bank’s first London branch opened with an unlikely combination of polished marble, chrome and free lollipops in 2010. Investors have since been left with a sour taste for its shares, down 98 per cent since
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US employment myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US added 336,000 new jobs in September, far more than expected, pushing bond yields to a new 16-year high and fuelling investors’ anxieties that interest rates will stay higher for longer. The Bureau of
Britain has never had a female chancellor of the exchequer, but that will change next year if the Labour party wins the next general election. In this scenario, it would be Rachel Reeves walking through the doors of the Treasury and taking charge of all fiscal and economic decisions for an incoming government. For now,
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial fraud myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. For Peter Pan, the boy who lived in a “world made of faith and trust and pixie dust” in JM Barrie’s novel, “make-believe and true were exactly the same thing”. That made him the ideal
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Personal Finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Who would have believed that one of the most useful aphorisms in the history of investing would have come from Donald Trump’s fraud trial in New York’s supreme court this week? “There are many ways
Rishi Sunak cast his scaling back of the UK’s flagship HS2 rail project as the beginning of a revival for British transport, promising investment “that will make a real difference” to the country. But his decision this week to cancel the northern leg of HS2 sent shockwaves through a UK rail industry already struggling with the
Receive free Innovation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Innovation news every morning. My pandemic pursuits included hula-hooping, song writing and covering my kitchen surfaces with aluminium foil to stop two kittens from stealing my meals. (It didn’t work.) Others took a more lucrative approach: countries including the
Receive free Data Points updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Data Points news every morning. If you’ve spent any time online in the past few years, you’ll be familiar with the idea that millennials and baby boomers are locked in a ferocious civil war. Boomers are selfish and
Receive free UK by-elections updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK by-elections news every morning. The Labour party has won almost 59 per cent of the vote in a by-election in Scotland, a result that exceeded the opposition’s own expectations and buoyed hopes for Sir Keir Starmer’s party