Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has sharply raised pay for newly qualified lawyers to £150,000 in the latest sign of a battle for legal talent in the City of London. The “magic circle” law firm, which turned
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Reform UK is boosting Labour’s prospects in its battle with the Conservatives, but narrow gains for the right-wing party in local elections where it stood in few seats have raised doubts over its wider electoral
Warren Buffett tours the floor ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder’s Meeting in Omaha, NE. David A. Grogan | CNBC When Warren Buffett kicks off Berkshire Hathaway‘s annual shareholder meeting on Saturday, the absence of Charlie Munger will be on everyone’s mind. Some 30,000 rapt shareholders are descending on Omaha for what’s been called
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US employment: Economists forecast the US economy to have added 243,000 jobs in April, down from 303,000 added in March. The unemployment rate is expected to remain unchanged at 3.8 per cent. ISM services index: Activity in the US services sector is expected to have remained in expansion territory in April, ticking up to a
Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. The Tories suffered sobering losses in local elections across England in the last big electoral test before a general election. Labour also trounced the Tories in the parliamentary by-election in Blackpool South – with Reform running
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s hard to imagine Count Binface, the independent space warrior, standing as mayor of New York, Paris, or Chicago. The Count’s regular appearances on the ballot, this time for London Mayor, reflect England’s love of
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak is under mounting pressure to sharpen his agenda after crushing local election losses on Thursday, but even critical Tory MPs said the immediate threat of a leadership challenge to the UK prime minister
Tesla has reportedly reneged on summer internship offers it made to college students. Multiple students described their situations in posts on their LinkedIn profiles this week, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. One of the students identified by the outlet said Tesla informed her on Monday via a phone call that she no longer had a summer internship, a development
For the past couple of weeks, the vortex of campus politics has threatened to suck Joe Biden in. Protesters at colleges have dubbed the president Genocide Joe and demanded that he act to stop Israeli actions in Gaza, while conservatives have sought to blame Biden for disorder at colleges and universities. Even as other Democrats
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav reportedly sent fired CNN anchor Don Lemon a $1,600 bottle of wine as a peace offering while they both dined at a steakhouse in Manhattan. Lemon, who was dumped by CNN last year after a string of high-profile on-air and behind-the-scenes incidents that alienated viewers and colleagues, received a
Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Donald Trump has made his contempt for the court clear throughout his criminal trial in Manhattan, and now a judge has made it official. Juan Merchan ruled today that the former president had violated a gag order designed to protect the integrity of
If Speaker Mike Johnson keeps his job, itll be Democrats who save him. Like his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, the Louisiana conservative is facing an attempted ouster after he defied Republican hard-liners by relying on Democratic support to pass a funding bill$61 billion for Ukraine, in this casethey hated. Democrats helped boot McCarthy six months ago,
A federal judge hammered key elements of Googles defense on Thursday as closing arguments began in a landmark antitrust trial that could potentially upend the tech giants online search empire. Judge Amit Mehta, who is expected to rule later this year on whether Google has maintained an illegal monopoly over the online search market, zeroed
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When Oregon voters consider $1.23 billion in bond measures on the May 21 ballot, issuers will be hoping for a more favorable outcome than local issuers received in November. Only two bond measures totaling $19 million were approved in November out of the $474.95 million requested during the special election. “Historically, the November election has
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is an old episode of The Simpsons in which Homer goes to the Frying Dutchman buffet and is thrown out after eating all of the shrimp, along with two plastic lobsters. “But the sign
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Conservative Lord Ben Houchen has held on to the Tees Valley mayoralty, providing a glimmer of hope for Rishi Sunak in an otherwise grim set of local election results. Houchen, who has been mayor of
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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. Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were on the rack on Friday after the party was trounced by Labour in the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election and faced huge losses in local elections across England and Wales. Sir Keir