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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. The owner of Legoland, Sea Life and Madame Tussauds plans to charge visitors more during peak summer weekends than rainy weekdays in the off-season, as Merlin Entertainments seeks to make up for fewer visitor numbers

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 Unhedged newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. The everything rally continues. But today Unhedged goes where

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boeing’s largest labour union is seeking a board seat at the plane maker, saying “we have to save this company from itself” as quality control concerns draw scrutiny from customers, passengers and regulators. The International

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Emerging markets myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is chair of Rockefeller International Emerging world powerhouses such as India and Indonesia weathered the turbulence of recent years in solid shape and are widely recognised for their success. Now many of the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Another week, another record high in US equity markets. Last week’s jump was triggered by the Federal Reserve’s signal that investors can look forward to more interest rate cuts this year. But deeper market bullishness

The turbulent years that followed the global financial crisis were not an ideal time for Michael Dorrell and Trent Vichie to be seeding a new infrastructure fund.  Potential investors were reluctant to back new funds and they had little appetite for deals that offered less lucrative returns than large buyouts. At many points, it seemed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Staff at Boeing are still reluctant to speak up about safety problems, even after a door panel on one of its jets recently blew out mid-flight and hundreds of lives were lost in two earlier

A Moscow court has ordered the detention of four suspects in the largest attack on Russian soil in more than a decade as the country held a day of mourning over the assault, which killed at least 137 people and injured 180. The men, who are accused of storming a Moscow music venue on Friday

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government will launch a “national endeavour” to reinforce the country’s nuclear deterrent, including a promise to invest more than £760mn with industry over the next six years into critical skills and infrastructure. Rishi

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said he wants the NHS to lean on the private health sector in the short term so it can drastically reduce its dependence in the future, as he rejected New Labour’s “ideological conviction” that competition drives up standards. Defending what he described as his “unfashionably nuanced” perspective, Streeting said

The US and Japan are planning the biggest upgrade to their security alliance since they signed a mutual defence treaty in 1960 in a move to counter China. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will announce plans to restructure the US military command in Japan to strengthen operational planning and exercises between the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s MPs will on Monday be put on alert to the threat of cyber attacks by Beijing ahead of this year’s UK general election, after a number of China hawks were targeted at Westminster. Oliver

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel says it has killed 170 people and detained 800 more in an almost week-long clash with Hamas militants at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital, one of the biggest battles of the war in the Palestinian

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has paved the way for the state pension triple lock to last until the end of the decade, after confirming that the Conservatives would include a pledge to keep it in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Four suspects in the largest attack on Russian soil in more than a decade were due to appear in a Moscow court on Sunday as the country held a day of mourning over the assault

South Korean diving instructor Park Soo-hong has been a customer of AliExpress, Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s online shopping service, ever since he went bargain-hunting for car parts five years ago. The 54-year-old regularly compares the platform’s prices with South Korea’s dominant portal Naver and US rival Amazon. An oil level gauge he recently bought for

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the ESG investing myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nearly two years into a Republican campaign to punish BlackRock for insisting that climate change carries financial risk, red state investment funds have pulled about $13.3bn from the world’s largest asset manager. That figure is

Yitzhak Yosef’s weekly sermons rarely make waves outside the cloistered world of Israel’s fervently religious ultraorthodox community. But when the chief Sephardic rabbi addressed the faithful earlier this month, he touched off a political firestorm. Yosef said ultraorthodox Jews, known as Haredim, would leave the country if the government began to conscript them for the