Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Aviva, the UK insurance heavyweight, has agreed a £3.6bn takeover deal with Direct Line, after winning over its smaller rival with a sweetened bid. The preliminary deal, announced in a joint statement by the companies
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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. Like many teenagers, I read The Dice Man because the idea of the novel’s protagonist making decisions based on the roll of a die sounded rebellious and fun. I gave it a try too —
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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. Last month, the UK’s government announced a series of proposals to “get Britain working”, premised on the claim that the country is facing “spiralling economic inactivity”, with “2.8mn people locked out of work due to
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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 writer is chancellor of the exchequer After nearly a decade and a half of stagnation and decline, this country has a radically different government. One that is relentlessly focused on delivering what matters most
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world President-elect Donald Trump has named venture capitalist David Sacks as the White House’s artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency tsar, the latest confidant of Elon Musk to receive a top appointment in the new government.
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A fortnight-long rally for Wall Street took a breather, as investors turned their attention to Friday’s government jobs report and its potential implications for the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting later this month. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite on Thursday finished about 0.2 per cent below their record closing highs notched up in the previous
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Large companies rushed to assess whether top employees have sufficient protection after the slaying of a US insurance executive in New York stoked broad concerns about corporate security. Heads of security for groups on both sides of the Atlantic raced in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting to share intelligence and make inquiries with specialist companies
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<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/20648548/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipal bonds were little changed in secondary trading as the focus shifted to the primary market amid several large deals while municipal bond mutual fund inflows topped $1 billion. U.S. Treasuries were mixed and equities ended in the red. Lipper reported fund inflows of $1.154 billion for the week
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“Do I lay awake at night worrying about the debt and the deficit of U.S. government right now?” said Jay Bryson, chief economist at Wells Fargo. “No, I don’t, largely because there’s no alternative to Treasury securities. They are the deepest, most liquid, transparent financial market in the world.”Wells Fargo Economists are figuring out the
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