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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine has carried out its longest-range drone strikes in Russia more than two years into Moscow’s full-scale war, injuring at least a dozen people in an attack on an industrial facility and a refinery
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spare me, please, another long read about the bitter atmosphere in the UK after 14 years of Conservative rule. Of course it is bitter. Which outgoing government of comparable lifespan was kissed farewell and thanked
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spain aims to recognise Palestinian statehood by July in a move that it hopes will open the way for more western powers to follow suit. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, one of the most vocal
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The father of mortgage-backed securities, unsurprisingly, puts his faith in the power of markets. Larry Fink last week released his perennially anticipated shareholder letter. This year, he focused on his concerns about global retirement safety
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran and Hizbollah on Tuesday vowed to retaliate after a suspected Israeli air strike on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus killed seven Revolutionary Guard officers, including two ranking commanders. Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi said that Monday
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US National Security Council has urged Israel to investigate after seven members of the humanitarian organisation World Central Kitchen were killed in an air strike in Gaza on Monday night. The organisation said on
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK house prices myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK house prices unexpectedly fell in March, according to fresh data that suggests there was a pause in the market’s recovery as mortgage rates fluctuated in early 2024. House prices fell 0.2 per cent
Israel Frey knew he risked causing offence when he delivered a Jewish prayer for the dead days after Hamas’s devastating October 7 attack on southern Israel. He did not realise it would upend his life. A small group of residents in Tel Aviv had asked him to offer the Kaddish blessing for the 1,200 victims
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Buck’s, the exclusive Mayfair gentleman’s club favoured by royals, military officers and financiers, is facing a revolt among members after disgraced hedge fund manager Crispin Odey was put forward to join. Odey, whose eponymous hedge
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is chief market strategist for Europe, Middle East and Africa at JPMorgan Asset Management While the US economy showed extraordinary resilience last year, Europe has had a tougher time of it with growth
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Set your WhatsApp messages to auto-delete: foreign spies might be reading them. That’s the advice that GCHQ, the UK’s signals intelligence agency, has given politicians after the British government publicly blamed China for two cyber campaigns
When Paul Smith first started running a bar in Stirling, in central Scotland, in 1981, the norm in hospitality was for wages to account for about 10 per cent of sales. Now, he operates pubs, clubs and other venues across the country in an industry where staff costs absorb some 36-38 per cent of sales.
Just hours after he was ordered by a New York judge to pay $454mn for fraudulently inflating the value of his properties, Donald Trump held a fundraising event at his ritzy Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. The biggest donors received signed Make America Great Again caps. They also drank a 2020 vintage of Trump Meritage
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has agreed to buy IT business Presidio from UK rival BC Partners, according to several people familiar with the details, in the latest sign that private equity dealmaking
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A group of 3,000 private equity dealmakers shared an annual carried interest windfall of about £5bn in the 2022 tax year, highlighting the large sums at stake in the UK debate over how these payouts
Singapore topped the list on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s business environment ranking. franckreporter | E+ | Getty Images Singapore, Denmark and U.S. are the best places in the world to conduct business, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit business environment ranking. “Singapore will remain the best geography in the world to do business, as it
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has posted a $175mn bond to prevent the New York attorney-general from collecting on a near half-billion dollar fraud judgment against him and his businesses, temporarily ending a stand-off that could have led
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As global electric vehicle sales growth slows, carmakers and regulators are asking an existential question: is the current slowdown a blip? One scenario sees mass market buyers, who currently balk at higher prices of EVs,
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK shop price inflation fell below 2 per cent in March for the first time since the start of the cost of living crisis, in a sign that the surge in prices of the past
The S&P 500 retreated from a record high to start the second quarter of 2024 on the back foot, with Treasury yields rising as resilient economic data prompting traders to reassess their bets on rate cuts this year. Despite opening in positive territory on Monday, Wall Street’s benchmark swung to close 0.2 per cent lower