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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. UK average mortgage rates fell for the first time since November 2021, according to data from the Bank of England, suggesting that the burden on homeowners is easing as lower borrowing costs filter through. The

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russia’s economy will expand much more rapidly this year than previously expected, according to the IMF, as President Vladimir Putin’s military spending feeds through into wider growth.  Gross domestic product is forecast to rise 2.6

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government has been told to scale back its issuance of long-dated and inflation-linked bonds as pension funds’ appetite for such debt wanes in a “significant structural change” to demand. Gilt issuance plans for

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. We can no longer hold out hope that it was an AI-generated deep fake. Last autumn, Rishi Sunak really did interview Elon Musk on stage. To repeat, a serving head of government took the junior role

Since the start of the war in Gaza, Israel’s armed forces have pursued their twin objectives — “dismantling” Hamas rule in the territory and rescuing all remaining Israeli hostages seized by the group — with ferocity and determination. Three months on, however, many in Israel, including Gadi Eisenkot, a member of the war cabinet, have

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. A deal has been reached to restore power-sharing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK financial regulators have fined HSBC £57.4mn for “serious failings” in safeguarding the deposits of some customers over a period of seven years. The BoE’s Prudential Regulation Authority said on Tuesday that it was imposing

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 economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute Donald Trump and Joe Biden differ in many important ways, but both reject the broad consensus that largely governed economic policy in

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The ambient sound of most modern western art is liberalism. Or at least, liberalism after a fashion: while very few mass-market blockbusters that come out of America — whether in print, or on

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accountancy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Big Four accounting firms have admitted hundreds of violations of regulations designed to protect the independence of their audit work, following the introduction of new disclosure rules in the US. The admissions come as the

British businesses have experienced a stark increase in the complexity and cost of trading with the EU since the UK left the bloc, spending an average of nearly £100,000 navigating the post-Brexit customs border over the past three years, new data has revealed. A survey of 1,001 senior decision makers working in UK-based businesses that

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Northern Ireland’s biggest pro-UK party has agreed a deal to restore the power-sharing executive after nearly two years of political paralysis, its leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said. Speaking to reporters in the early hours of

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK shop price inflation eased sharply in January to its lowest rate in almost two years as retailers heavily discounted goods during a weak sales period, according to industry data. The British Retail Consortium said

The US is reinstating sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned miner Minerven following a ban on the candidacy of opposition leader María Corina Machado in upcoming elections. The US Treasury department on Monday ordered a wind-down of transactions with the company by February 13. In October, Washington relaxed its sanctions for six months on oil, mining, and secondary

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US and Chinese officials will this week hold talks aimed at stemming the flow of chemicals from China used to make fentanyl as they implement a deal struck by President Joe Biden and President Xi

For years, Arab and western officials have kept a watchful eye over an arid tract of land in a remote corner of the Middle East, where US troops, Iran-linked militias and the remnants of Isis all operate. Tehran-backed militants sit at checkpoints and makeshift bases along the strategically important Baghdad-Damascus highway, which they long ago

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US military failed to stop the enemy drone that killed three of its service members after mistaking it for an American drone that approached a base near Jordan’s border with Syria at the same

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. EU member countries have backed a plan to set aside billions of euros of profits arising from the freezing of assets of Russia’s central bank in a first step towards their possible use for

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Former UK science minister George Freeman has blamed an impending jump in the cost of his mortgage for his decision to quit the role and warned politics was becoming an unaffordable career. Freeman, who stepped

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Paddy Power owner Flutter is planning to move its primary listing to New York in the latest blow to London’s shrinking equity market. If approved by shareholders at an annual meeting in May, Flutter’s transition

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Twelve employees of a UN aid agency alleged to have played a part in the October 7 attacks on Israel included one who kidnapped a woman and another who seized the body of a slain