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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 The world’s biggest economies have signalled weakening support for Ukraine, issuing a joint declaration that watered down previously agreed criticism of Russia’s war against the country and included only a broad reference to

Donald Trump’s social media company is in advanced talks to buy Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading venue owned by Intercontinental Exchange, as it pushes to expand beyond online conversation. The US president-elect’s Trump Media and Technology Group, in which he has pledged to retain his 53 per cent stake, is closing in on an all-share purchase

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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China’s biggest technology groups are building artificial intelligence teams in Silicon Valley, seeking to hire top US talent despite Washington’s efforts to curb the country’s development of the cutting-edge technology. Alibaba, ByteDance and Meituan have

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The US has said it would warn the Turkish government that there could be “no more business as usual” with Hamas after members of the Palestinian militant group’s political leadership reportedly moved to

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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 Sir Keir Starmer has declined to rule out allowing Ukraine to use UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles for strikes inside Russia, after President Joe Biden authorised the use of US-supplied long-range weapons. The

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel struck a “specific component” related to Iran’s nuclear programme last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, despite pleas from the US to contain its retaliatory air strikes on the Islamic republic. Israeli

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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the European economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Europe will not be able to afford its generous welfare state provision and increased investment in defence and in tackling climate change unless the region fixes a persistent decline in growth, the European Central Bank’s

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Heightened regulatory scrutiny of deals where insurers offload some of their risk to private equity-owned companies is “welcome” to ensure the transactions do not create problems for the industry, the outgoing chief executive of insurer

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world From heavy artillery to fighter jets, each shift by the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with more potent weaponry has traced a similar path. Months of soul-searching about possible Russian escalation are followed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US will bear the brunt of any attempt by president-elect Donald Trump to decouple economically from China, a senior Beijing adviser has warned, citing the reliance on low-cost Chinese parts of American manufacturers including

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is director of regional security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and co-editor of the newly-released ‘Turbulence in the Eastern Mediterranean: Geopolitical, Security and Energy Dynamics’ With the world understandably focused on the

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is coming under growing pressure to drop his resistance to sending German-made cruise missiles to Ukraine after the US allowed Kyiv limited use of its weapons for strikes inside Russia. US President Joe Biden has authorised Ukraine to launch limited strikes into Russia’s Kursk region using US-made long-range missiles, a major policy

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world We all know the slogan. But Donald Trump will not make America great again by waging war on his domestic enemies. Instead Trump’s vengeance campaign threatens the real foundations of American greatness. The

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cryptocurrencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a software engineer and author of ‘Popping the Crypto Bubble’ Remember when cryptocurrency was supposed to disrupt and replace finance? Well, history had other plans. As bitcoin surges past $85,000, doubling in price

Meal replacement company Huel has reported a surge in profits as its customer base grows beyond the time-pressed “tech bros” of the UK brand’s early years and expands its product range into chewable food. Huel’s pre-tax profit for the year to July 31 almost tripled compared with the year before, rising 194 per cent to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An octogenarian oil trader has been given a 17-and-a-half-year jail sentence in Singapore for defrauding HSBC, in a long-running case that sent shockwaves through the city-state’s commodity trading sector. Lim Oon Kuin, known as OK