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Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. Global stocks rose on Thursday, helped by a drop in oil prices and falling Treasury yields ahead of highly anticipated US and eurozone inflation data. Brent crude fell 1.2 per cent to settle at $95.38

Receive free Cyber Security updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Cyber Security news every morning. China has moved to water down some of its tough cross-border data controls amid complaints from foreign businesses and a teetering economy. The Cyberspace Administration of China unveiled rules on Thursday evening which

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. The markets tried denying that the Federal Reserve really would keep rates “higher for longer”. But in the past week, equities and debt finally seemed to accept that high interest rates are here to stay. That

Receive free US-China relations updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US-China relations news every morning. The US has accused China of trying to create a “community of digital authoritarians” in a report designed to convince other countries that Beijing is mounting a global propaganda effort as part of

Receive free Markets Insight updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets Insight news every morning. The writer is chief investment officer at Pictet Wealth Management Germany has the means to fire up its ailing economy, but will it use it? Berlin’s fiscal strength gives it an option most

Ken Smith moved to the Lincolnshire coast to see out his retirement, writing crime novels while surrounded by beaches, arcades, holiday parks and nature reserves. Recently, however, his retreat has been disturbed. The Mablethorpe resident has found himself unexpectedly on the front lines of a struggle affecting countries across the world, centred on how to

Receive free World Bank updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest World Bank news every morning. When the UN held its general assembly last week, the attention of the media — and the protesters — was mostly focused on the politicians. But in its shadow, another event was taking

Receive free Inside Business updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Inside Business news every morning. Listening to Mark Zuckerberg this week, it has been hard not to conclude that when it comes to artificial intelligence, much of the tech industry is throwing whatever new ideas it can think

Receive free Sovereign bonds updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Sovereign bonds news every morning. European government bond prices dropped sharply on Thursday as investors took fright at Italy’s larger than expected budget deficit and mounting concerns that central banks will keep interest rates high for an extended

Receive free Adani Group updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Adani Group news every morning. Abu Dhabi conglomerate International Holding Company is to sell its stake in two of Indian tycoon Gautam Adani’s companies, in a blow to the business empire battling allegations of accounting fraud. IHC announced

Receive free Evergrande Real Estate Group updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Evergrande Real Estate Group news every morning. Evergrande on Thursday said its chair, Hui Ka Yan, had been placed under “mandatory measures” on suspicion of involvement in “illegal crimes”, a sign of escalating government pressure on

Receive free Artificial intelligence updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Artificial intelligence news every morning. The writer is founder of Sifted, an FT-backed site about European start-ups Even though it was written 37 years ago, Melvin Kranzberg’s first law of technology resonates today in our fast-evolving world of

Receive free South African politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest South African politics news every morning. Sometimes moral clarity strikes like lightning. One such bolt hit this month in South Africa when Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s grand man of letters and Nobel laureate, was asked by students at

Receive free FT Magazine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest FT Magazine news every morning. In 1988, James Hansen, head of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told a US Senate committee: “The greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now.” Thirty-five years

The US economy is facing new peril as a federal government shutdown draws near, strikes in the US Midwest rumble on, and rising energy costs coupled with the expiry of pandemic-era fiscal support hit household budgets. The combination threatens to undermine consumers and businesses just as their resilience shows signs of cracking under the weight

Receive free OpenAI updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest OpenAI news every morning. OpenAI is in advanced talks with former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son to launch a venture to build the “iPhone of artificial intelligence”, fuelled by more than $1bn in funding from

Receive free Private equity updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Private equity news every morning. The writer is president and chief executive of the American Investment Council The US is a beacon for global investment and innovation. And private equity plays a vital role in building better businesses,

The view from Heathrow airport’s 87 metre-high control tower stretches more than 20 miles, overlooking the constant flow of aircraft taking off and landing. For nearly two years during the pandemic, those skies were unusually quiet. But the travel industry has since roared back to life, propelling the UK’s biggest airport towards its largest passenger

Receive free Denmark updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Denmark news every morning. Soaring sales of celebrity-endorsed pharmaceuticals have sparked fears that Denmark’s economy risks a similar fate to its Nordic counterpart Finland, whose over-reliance on Nokia led to a lost decade when the phonemaker’s fortunes turned. Ozempic,

Receive free Mergers & Acquisitions updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Mergers & Acquisitions news every morning. Global dealmaking is languishing at a 10-year low as high interest rates chill private equity activity and a more hostile antitrust environment deters companies from pursuing rivals. At $2tn, the value

Receive free UK house prices updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK house prices news every morning. UK house sellers are increasingly cutting prices to secure deals even as the normally busy autumn selling season gets under way, according to data from property platform Zoopla. Discounts have increased