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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

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

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

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Bank of England has kept UK interest rates on hold at 5.25 per cent, pushing sterling lower as the central bank signalled it is edging closer to cutting borrowing costs. Governor Andrew Bailey said

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Short sellers have amassed a record bet of almost €1bn against the shares of Telecom Italia, as chief executive Pietro Labriola seeks investors’ backing for an asset sale to slash debt. Data from S&P Global

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey’s central bank surprised economists and investors on Thursday with a big rate rise as policymakers seek to cool runaway inflation and halt an accelerating capital flight among local savers. The central bank increased its

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government is facing a compensation bill of up to £10.5bn after an Ombudsman on Thursday ruled it had mishandled state pension age rises affecting millions of women born in the 1950s. In a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Being an old-school broker in the City of London ain’t what it used to be. Technology and competition have hurt profitability in traditional dealing services. Look at stalwart TP ICAP: the part-creation of Michael Spencer

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For all the angst about polarisation and disinformation, something very different is in fact going on in news consumption: the mass-media age is ending. We’re returning to a time when most people get almost no

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Australia and the UK have signed a defence and security agreement, deepening their ties in the face of rising Chinese power in the region. Australian defence minister, Richard Marles, and his UK counterpart, Grant Shapps,

One hundred years ago on Thursday, Edward Leffler, a former door-to-door salesman of pots and pans, revolutionised financial markets. His invention, the open-ended mutual fund, allowed retail customers to buy into a diversified portfolio of stocks and be confident that they would get a fair value when they wanted their money back. Leffler’s innovation gave

Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei has launched an aggressive campaign to overhaul state-owned companies from an airline to an oil group and the postal service as lawmakers hold back his plans to privatise them. Milei, who counts Margaret Thatcher among his political heroes, on the campaign trail described privatising Argentina’s state companies as a top

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple chief Tim Cook has said China is “critical” to its business in comments made during a visit to the country, where consumers are showing signs of souring on the company’s iPhones and US technology.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Federal Reserve officials unleashed their optimism on Wednesday, unveiling projections for faster than expected US economic growth this year while still leaving room to cut interest rates three times. It was a moment of vindication

You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player Lego’s fundamental business model is it buys ABS plastic for about $1 a pound and sells it back to us for about 50 times that. There’s probably more Minifigures on the planet than there are humans. I mean, there has to be. I buy and sell

The party to celebrate the relaunch of the Sotheby’s London real estate franchise did not cost £2.5mn. George Azar would like to be clear about that. The world of luxury London estate agents has been awash with rumours about Azar, and his ambition to disrupt the business of selling multimillion pound homes to the global

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In a viral TikTok video, celebrity podcaster Joe Rogan appears to deliver a damning message: “We are all probably going to die in the next few years. Did you hear about this? There’s this asteroid

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investing is not immune to passing fashions. In recent years, it has mainly been a macro game, with Fed tea-leaf readers, consumer-spending trackers and China analysts much in demand. Big shifts have sunk whole sectors