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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 head of Macquarie’s booming commodities business, who was paid more than JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon and 75 per cent more than the Australian financial group’s own chief executive last year, is to leave this

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Professional services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US law firm Latham & Watkins is cutting off automatic access to its international databases for its Hong Kong-based lawyers, in a sign of how Beijing’s closer control of the territory is forcing global firms

US stocks retreated from record high territory to close lower, with investors now turning their attention to the release of official US inflation data on Tuesday. The benchmark S&P 500 ended 0.1 per cent lower, having gained as much as 0.4 per cent in the morning to set a record intraday high. More than two-thirds

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to put on a hold a ruling that barred him from using presidential immunity as a shield against criminal charges accusing him of meddling in the 2020

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 is seeing signs of an “upturn” in the economy, its governor said on Monday, as he played down the significance of upcoming data some analysts say will show the UK was

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The heads of the CIA and Israel’s Mossad spy agency are expected to hold talks with senior Egyptian and Qatari officials on Tuesday in a bid to revive negotiations on a deal to halt the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Brussels is proposing to impose sanctions on three Chinese companies and one Indian business as part of its latest measures to damage Russia’s war machine. If member states approve the plan, it would be

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Europe’s fears of an isolationist America under a second Trump presidency are becoming reality. Donald Trump has not yet sealed the Republican nomination for this year’s White House race and the presidential vote is many

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Dutch court has ordered the government to stop sending spare parts for F-35 fighter jets to Israel, amid mounting international pressure over the way the Jewish state is conducting the war against Hamas in

What are America’s traditional allies to make of last week’s Republican shenanigans on Capitol Hill when they torpedoed the bill to give billions of dollars of aid to Ukraine? Or of Donald Trump’s comments over the weekend questioning Nato’s doctrine of collective defence? The short answer is: be alarmed. The more considered answer is: prepare,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the first half of Sunday’s Super Bowl, the Jumbotron at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas briefly cut away from the action on the field to show Taylor Swift chugging a beer in her luxury

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU’s chief diplomat and Germany’s president joined other western leaders in condemning former US president Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would allow Russia to attack any Nato member that failed to spend enough on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Labour has defended its decision not to suspend the party’s candidate in the Rochdale by-election after he sparked an antisemitism dispute by claiming Israel had allowed Hamas to attack on October 7. Sir Keir Starmer’s

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military said it had rescued two of the hostages seized by Hamas after a “complex operation” on Monday involving special forces in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The Israeli raid comes amid

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a former Nato secretary-general It is time to refocus our approach to sanctions on Russia. It is almost two years since the country launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in an

Governments around the world are intensifying scrutiny on the building of data centres over fears that their huge energy usage is putting excessive pressure on national climate targets and electricity grids. Ireland, Germany, Singapore and China as well as a US county and Amsterdam in the Netherlands have introduced restrictions on new data centres in

The attempt to find a solution to the Israel-Gaza conflict comes to Washington on Monday with President Joe Biden playing host to King Abdullah of Jordan. UK politics offers us a couple of set piece events with by-elections in the (currently) Conservative seats of Wellingborough and Kingswood. How confident are the ruling party about retaining

As markets boost their bets on interest rate cuts this year, investors are heavily focused on exactly how low borrowing costs will ultimately fall as the inflationary menace retreats.  Central banks including the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank will be influenced by an elusive and controversial concept: the so-called neutral rate of interest —

Jonathan Reynolds, shadow business spokesman, has vowed that a future Labour government would create a modern tax system for people genuinely living in the UK for a short period of time, to replace Britain’s “colonial-era” non-dom regime. Reynolds, on a visit to India, said a Labour government would seek to attract people from around the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing an exodus of MPs that will outstrip the number of losses his party suffered ahead of its landslide defeat in the 1997 general election as he heads to the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. PwC is forcing some junior consultants in the UK to spend an extra six months on its graduate scheme because there is not enough work to promote them. The Big Four firm told nearly 100