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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. Investigators of two severed data cables in the Baltic Sea are looking at the movements of a Chinese bulk carrier, the second such probe in recent months amid rising jitters in Europe over potential acts

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The handshake with which Xi Jinping, China’s leader, greeted UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Monday was anything but warm. Footage from the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro showed a grim-faced Xi briefly

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Is Donald Trump to be taken literally or seriously? Salena Zito offered these alternatives in a column in The Atlantic published in September 2016. Today, before he obtains power for a second time,

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump is expected to nominate Wall Street investor and campaign donor Howard Lutnick to run his commerce department, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Lutnick, who is the co-chair of

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Lord Peter Mandelson has said the UK should use Nigel Farage and Elon Musk’s British “friends” as a “bridgehead” to build relations with Donald Trump’s incoming US administration. The suggestion by the former

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 must approach interest rate cuts carefully as it assesses the impact of the rise in employer national insurance contributions, Andrew Bailey has said.  There are “different ways” in which UK chancellor

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. European stocks fell and government bonds gained on Tuesday, as investors responded to the latest escalation of the war in Ukraine. The pan-continental Stoxx Europe 600 index was 0.7 per cent lower by early afternoon trading.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Scottish Labour would reinstate winter fuel payments for pensioners if it wins the Holyrood elections in 2026, Anas Sarwar has said, increasing pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to follow suit for the rest of the

Companies registered in the British Overseas Territories exported $134mn worth of goods to Russia in 2024 in an apparent breach of UK sanctions, according to FT analysis of Russian filings. The UK’s Russia sanctions legislation, which has been extended to the territories, bars companies and individuals from enabling Russia to obtain military, dual-use or luxury

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine has struck a military target inside Russia using US-made long-range Atacms missiles for the first time since Joe Biden’s administration lifted restrictions on their use, according to people familiar with the matter. Army

The remnants of Gaza’s Hamas-run security forces have begun a violent crackdown on aid theft and spiralling black market prices in the enclave, including shooting suspects in the legs as they struggle to appease a starving population. Armed men in plain clothes, who Palestinians say are policemen driven underground by Israeli targeting, have started to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Abrdn’s new chief executive Jason Windsor has made sweeping leadership changes in a bid to improve the UK asset manager’s investment performance after a difficult period. The FTSE 250 group said on Tuesday that Rene

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world It is time to study Caligula. That most notorious of Roman emperors killed what was left of the republic and centralised authority in himself. Donald Trump does not need to make his horse

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Record numbers of US executives are selling shares in their companies, as corporate insiders from Goldman Sachs to Tesla and even Donald’s Trump’s own media group cash in on the stock market surge

At Legal & General’s annual meeting in May 2022, a shareholder took to the floor to air some grievances — not about the performance of the FTSE 100 insurer but that of KPMG, its auditor. “Don’t we as a company with an enormous reputation deserve to have auditors of the very highest reputation too,” he

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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK employment myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The story of Britain’s labour market over the past decade or so could be summed up as “quantity over quality”. Plenty of jobs have been created and unemployment has remained pretty low. At the same

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world European leaders should be prepared to send military forces to Ukraine to underpin any peace deal engineered by Donald Trump between Kyiv and Moscow, Estonia’s foreign minister has said. Margus Tsahkna told the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. JPMorgan’s UK digital-only bank is rolling out its first credit card to customers, expanding into lending after amassing more than £20bn in deposits in three years. JPMorgan, which is the largest bank in the US