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Monday: The standing committee of China’s National People’s Congress begins. They are expected to approve a fiscal spending package for Beijing’s stimulus programme. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari visit China. Indonesia and Russia hold their first joint naval drills. Tuesday: The China International Import Expo begins in Shanghai. Australia’s

Chinese authorities are demanding wealthy individuals and companies double-check their taxes for unpaid liabilities in a move that threatens to further dent investor confidence in the world’s second-largest economy. Tax officials in recent months have asked wealthy individuals and companies to carry out “self-inspections” of their tax payments and cough up any deficiencies, as local

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Saudi Arabia and other members of Opec+ have delayed a plan to begin raising oil production until the end of the year, as the group tries to revive crude prices that have continued to flag

Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House On Tuesday, Americans will vote in what will probably be the most consequential presidential election of our lifetimes. The candidates couldn’t be more different, but the challenge left to them will be

Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House Kamala Harris and Donald Trump made their final appeals to undecided voters and sought to rally their supporters in swing states as polls showed the election going down to the wire in

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Besides the spectacle of a UN secretary-general obsequiously paying respect to a Russian president indicted for abducting children, last month’s Brics summit in Kazan featured the more technical, but geopolitically more consequential, push “to make

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves has suggested UK businesses can “absorb” her increases to employer national insurance contributions by accepting reduced profits or making efficiencies, rather than passing on lower wage rises to workers. The chancellor on Sunday

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In July’s UK election the Conservatives suffered, in their terms, a wipeout. Their 121 seats on 24 per cent of the vote were their worst results since the party was formally established in the 1830s.

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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. Israeli naval commandos launched a seaborne raid into northern Lebanon on Saturday, seizing what they said was a “senior operative” in the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah from the coastal town of Batroun. The Israel Defense

In July, Ken Griffin paid a record $45mn for a near-immaculate 11-foot tall stegosaurus skeleton called “Apex” — a fitting purchase for a billionaire that many consider to be at the apex of finance. In a Sotheby’s press release announcing the sale, Griffin said: “Apex was born in America and is going to stay in

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Travel & leisure industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The world’s biggest cruise groups are pouring money into private destinations for their customers as booming demand rubs up against a backlash against overtourism in many popular spots. The biggest operator, Carnival, is

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The World Economic Forum has increased the price of admission 10-fold for some guests at its annual meeting in Davos as it tries to grab a greater share of the corporate activity on the sidelines

Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House Donald Trump has had incredibly good fortune in his life, and this election cycle has been no different. So enfeebled was his original opponent, Joe Biden, that he had to be replaced

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Out of the blue earlier this year, a man I have known for years sent me an email introduction to one of his work contacts that was such a striking example of the genre that

During a year of simmering conflict, Lubnan Baalbaki watched as his ancestral village came under repeated fire, caught up in the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah. Baalbaki, the conductor of Lebanon’s philharmonic orchestra and the son of a prominent Lebanese artist, had hoped his family’s museum — a rare cultural centre

The Federal Reserve is poised to lower its benchmark policy rate by a quarter-point next week, sticking to its course in the face of a distorted jobs report and uncertainty over economic policy beyond Tuesday’s US presidential election. The Federal Open Market Committee will announce its next decision on interest rates two days after polls

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With only days to go until the election, Kamala Harris made a closing pitch to voters that sought to balance joyful optimism with dire warnings about the threat posed by her Republican opponent. “We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump, who spends full time