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Receive free Inside Business updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Inside Business news every morning. The best-selling budget electric car in China sells for about $5,000. A fall in prices to such affordable levels helped almost double China’s passenger electric vehicle sales last year. At 5.9mn units, sales

Receive free HS2 updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest HS2 news every morning. UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt launched a successful rearguard action to ensure the HS2 high-speed rail line is built to Euston station in central London, even as Rishi Sunak prepared to axe the northern leg of

Receive free Kevin McCarthy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Kevin McCarthy news every morning. Kevin McCarthy’s position as Speaker of the House of Representatives was in peril on Tuesday after 11 Republicans voted to proceed with an effort to oust him and Democrats said they would not

Receive free War in Ukraine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. President Joe Biden hosted a call with western leaders to co-ordinate assistance for Ukraine on Tuesday following a compromise to keep the US government open in a deal that excluded more

Receive free Conservative Party UK updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Conservative Party UK news every morning. UK home secretary Suella Braverman said a “hurricane” of migrants was threatening to enter the country in a speech to Conservative activists that staked her claim to lead the party’s rightwing.

Receive free US Treasury bonds updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US Treasury bonds news every morning. The yield on 30-year US Treasuries hit a 16-year peak on Tuesday and German and Italian borrowing costs hit their highest levels for more than a decade as the global bond

Receive free Chinese economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. How big a role will China’s demographics play in its economic prospects? Inescapably, a big one. Indeed, it must be one of the most important factors in determining China’s economic prospects. Even if

Receive free Russian economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Russian economy news every morning. The rouble sank beyond 100 to the US dollar on Tuesday, confounding Russian authorities’ attempts to halt a steep decline this year and pushing it close to levels hit in August. Russia’s currency

Receive free Populism updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Populism news every morning. I am looking at a map of Europe from a recent edition of The Economist. Each country is rendered in a shade of red according to its level of public support for the hard right:

Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Rishi Sunak has defended his plan to axe the HS2 high speed rail line to Manchester, criticising the “enormous” cost of the project and saying he was prepared to take tough decisions. The

Receive free Conservative Party UK updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Conservative Party UK news every morning. This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning from Manchester. Jeremy Hunt

Receive free Meta Platforms updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Meta Platforms news every morning. Meta is preparing to charge EU users a $14 monthly subscription fee to access Instagram on their phones unless they allow the company to use their personal information for targeted ads. The US

Receive free Asset allocation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Asset allocation news every morning. This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. Yesterday, we tried to decipher the message

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 analyst at Lloyd’s List Intelligence The effectiveness of the G7 price cap on Russian oil stumbled at the first hurdle when prices rallied from July. That is because the principle

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in 2010, which killed 11 workers and released almost 5mn barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, was not just an environmental cataclysm. It also changed the financial industry. Until then, sustainability ratings had been a niche business. For companies that made their living providing data and creating

At the height of the pandemic, investors clamoured to buy vaccine makers, the closest thing to a sure bet. But the fall in coronavirus infections has meant a reversal in fortunes for these Covid-19 winners, with the shares sliding on sales uncertainty and questions surrounding their future growth. Shares in Pfizer, which developed a vaccine

Receive free UK society updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK society news every morning. What unites the following three countries: Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom? One answer is that all three are led by ethnic minority leaders: António Costa, Leo Varadkar, and Rishi

The writer is the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin  The tens of thousands of people who have fled their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh, a part of Azerbaijan with a predominantly Armenian population, are a powerful illustration of the sad reality that “might makes right” in the South Caucasus. Last month, Azerbaijan took

Receive free Renewable energy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Renewable energy news every morning. Canadian investment firm Brookfield is buying one of the UK’s largest renewable developers, in a boost for the country’s onshore wind industry after recent setbacks. Brookfield will acquire Durham-based Banks Renewables in a

© AFP via Getty Images The United Nations Security Council has authorised a security mission to fight gangs in Haiti, after a year of deadlock on the issue. China and Russia abstained from the vote, while the other 13 member countries voted in favour. Kenya has pledged to lead the mission with 1,000 police, while

Receive free Kevin McCarthy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Kevin McCarthy news every morning. Matt Gaetz, the firebrand Republican congressman from Florida, has moved to oust the Speaker of the House of Representatives, setting the stage for a dramatic vote within 48 hours to determine Kevin McCarthy’s