Receive free Chinese economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. Has China’s period of relatively rapid economic growth come to an end? That was the focus of last week’s column. The answer, I argued, was that it still had the potential to catch
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Receive free Political espionage updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Political espionage news every morning. Five Bulgarian nationals have been remanded in custody after appearing in a London court to face charges of suspected spying for Russia. The three men and two women appeared via video link at
A high-profile Chinese television presenter who was in a relationship with the country’s ousted foreign minister had a child last year with the help of a surrogate mother in the US, people familiar with the matter have said. Fu Xiaotian, 40, was in a relationship with Qin Gang, according to six people close to Fu
Receive free Pound Sterling updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Pound Sterling news every morning. Sterling fell to a six-month low against the dollar on Tuesday, putting it on track for its worst month since last year’s “mini” Budget, amid fears high interest rates will tip the UK
Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. European and Asian stocks retreated on Tuesday, as investors adjusted to the prospect of interest rates staying higher for longer to tame global price growth. Europe’s region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.5 per cent, extending
Receive free Donald Trump updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Donald Trump news every morning. A decade has passed since Barack Obama failed to enforce his “red line” against the use of chemical weapons in Syria. But a US president made good on that commitment in the end.
Receive free Commercial property updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Commercial property news every morning. Meta has paid £149mn to break its lease on a major London development near Regent’s Park as hybrid working prompts big tech groups to pull back on office space. British Land, which owns
Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Manufacturing groups have hit out at Rishi Sunak’s watering down of some of Britain’s net zero emission targets, describing the move as “a huge setback” to the sector. The prime minister’s decision sent
Receive free EY updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest EY news every morning. EY agreed to terminate a consulting contract and refund millions of pounds to Santander’s UK business after failings in its anti-financial crime work for the bank, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
One year ago, a pocket of borrowed money on the edge of UK bond markets imploded with enough force to topple a prime minister and draw the Bank of England into an emergency rescue. Now the world’s most influential regulators are intensifying their scrutiny of a mounting potential risk to the gilt market’s much bigger
Receive free Employment updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Employment news every morning. For several years now, politicians have insisted that the road to net zero is paved with jobs. “When I think climate, I think jobs,” US president Joe Biden is fond of saying. Not just any
Robert Menendez and his wife were charged with accepting bribes to exert influence over US military aid to Egypt and help a halal exports business © Michael M Santiago/Getty Images US senator Robert Menendez ignored calls to step down on Monday, after the New Jersey Democrat and his wife were indicted on federal bribery charges
Receive free Inside Business updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Inside Business news every morning. One illustration of how financial ties between the US and China are breaking down comes from the recent experience of private equity’s “placement agents”. These are companies hired by buyout groups to help
Receive free HS2 updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest HS2 news every morning. Rishi Sunak has been warned by the new US owners of Birmingham City football club, in which NFL superstar Tom Brady has a minority stake, that he will damage trust in Britain if he aborts
Russia has weathered western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, the oligarch Oleg Deripaska has said, admitting “surprise” at the country’s resilience after a war he thought would bankrupt the Kremlin. Deripaska, one of Russia’s richest men, told the Financial Times that Moscow had survived the effort to isolate its economy by developing new trade
Receive free Central banks updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Central banks news every morning. The Bank of England could tear up its current process for producing forecasts and move to an approach closer to that of the US Federal Reserve under a review led by Ben Bernanke.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. No western government wants a clash with India. The country is seen as the market of the future and an essential counterweight to China. From Washington to Canberra and from Tokyo to London, Narendra Modi’s
Receive free Global trade updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Global trade news every morning. World trade volumes fell at their fastest annual pace for almost three years in July, according to closely watched figures that signal rising interest rates are beginning to impact global demand for goods.
Receive free Social affairs updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Social affairs news every morning. There is one particular detail in the FTX saga that I can’t stop thinking about. It’s not the salacious stories about polyamorous relationships at the cryptocurrency exchange, the criminal charges against Sam Bankman-Fried
Receive free DWS Group updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest DWS Group news every morning. DWS has agreed to pay a total of $25mn to settle two separate enforcement actions brought by the US securities regulator stemming from investigations into a greenwashing scandal that has dogged the asset
Receive free US immigration updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US immigration news every morning. The writer is executive director of American Compass Political conditions in the US are ripe for rare progress on immigration. The issue has always fallen victim to debates over timing. Which should come