Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Britain’s electric vehicle policy is “terrible” and threatens to bankrupt carmakers, the head of Vauxhall owner Stellantis warned on Thursday. Carlos Tavares said the UK’s quota regime, which requires manufacturers to meet EV sales targets
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Why are miners always trying to buy each other? Mining capex collapsed with commodity prices nearly a decade ago and has never really recovered, with free cash used to fund share buybacks instead. Buybacks were a way to improve production per share without actually improving production. The charts below, from Jefferies, are a little old
TikTok’s Beijing-based owner has increasingly taken a grip over its operations, according to company insiders who said there was a growing culture clash between its Chinese leaders and US staff. The US government passed legislation this week aimed at forcing TikTok to divest from China’s ByteDance or face a countrywide ban, but prising the viral
Facing one of the worst stock slumps in Tesla’s 14-year history, Elon Musk was under pressure this week to deliver a reassuring message to investors about its next generation of electric vehicles and a persuasive vision for an AI-driven, automated future. Instead, what the chief executive offered — alongside even worse than expected first-quarter profits
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine is set to increase long-range attacks inside Russia as an influx of western military aid aims to help Kyiv shape the war “in much stronger ways”, the head of the UK military has
Rishi Sunak last week declared it a “moral mission” to reform welfare in the UK, to cut the benefits bill and bring people with health conditions back to work. A post-pandemic rise of 850,000 in the number of people not working due to long-term sickness was economically unsustainable, unaffordable and unfair on taxpayers, the prime
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BHP has proposed a takeover of Anglo American, in a deal that would bring together two global mining giants and rank as one of the industry’s largest transactions in years. BHP has made a proposal
Chipotle’s chief executive said he is focused on winning the battle for labour” in a tight job market where workers have “a lot of options.” Brian Niccol, Chipotle’s chief executive, told the Financial Times that he is thinking about how to make jobs at the company more attractive by providing unique benefits like English lessons,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Labour party has pledged to fully renationalise the passenger rail network within a first term if it wins the UK general election, as it promised sweeping reforms of fares to draw people back on
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta’s revenues jumped by more than a quarter in the first three months of the year, beating expectations, but its forecasts left Wall Street underwhelmed and the shares fell 10 per cent in after-hours trading
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Europe is less hard-working, less ambitious, more regulated and more risk-averse than the US, according to the boss of Norway’s giant oil fund, with the gap between the two continents only getting wider. Nicolai Tangen,
On a bright Tuesday afternoon, a masked young woman calling herself W stood beside the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in the centre of Columbia University’s campus and decried the genocide being committed in Gaza by “the violent, Zionist settler entity”. “Today, in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, we are in high spirits. We are united in our
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US secretly agreed to send a long-range missile system to Ukraine in February, reversing a decision to withhold the weapons that some in the White House feared could dangerously escalate the war with
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced he is considering quitting on the day a judge opened a preliminary corruption investigation into his wife. In an extraordinary letter to the country published on Wednesday on
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Russian court has ordered the seizure of JPMorgan Chase funds totalling $439.5mn a week after Kremlin-run lender VTB launched legal action against the largest US bank to recoup money stuck under Washington’s sanctions regime.
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. President Joe Biden signed a highly anticipated $95bn foreign aid bill on Wednesday, triggering a move by the Pentagon to rush $1bn in new weapons to Kyiv from US stockpiles, including much-needed air defence
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boeing burnt through almost $4bn of cash in the first quarter, reflecting slower 737 Max production and compensation to customers as the US plane maker grappled with the aftermath of the mid-air accident in January.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If there is anything close to an iron law in politics it is that people will not vote for parties that do not seem to like them. Yet Britain’s Conservatives often seem to dislike much
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. KPMG has revoked job offers to some foreign graduates in the UK after the government tightened visa rules for overseas workers in an effort to cut record immigration. The Big Four firm, one of the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Watch carefully and you can see the Republican party forming a circular firing squad. The trigger was last weekend’s much delayed vote for $61bn in Ukraine aid. Republicans were divided almost evenly. The difference between
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon said the US economy was “booming” but warned that he was “on the cautious side” of there being a soft landing. In a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday at the
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