Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s a sign of how pervasively rightwingers have upended UK politics that Labour strategists are wooing National Trust Woman, who walks her dog in heritage gardens and enjoys a cream tea. In attacking Conservatives who
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Charles Michel, president of the European Council, has abandoned his plan to seek a seat in the European parliament this summer and will instead remain in his job, three weeks after announcing he would run
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Friday it had fired “several” employees after receiving information from Israel about their alleged involvement in Hamas’s October 7 attack. The US responded to the development, which
Market participants are upbeat with predictions about an economy showing few signs of recession, a record-breaking stock market and a Federal Reserve that is expected to start ratcheting down interest rates. Fresh economic data showing gross domestic product growing by an annual rate of 3.3% has bond issuers and ratings agency forecasters feeling bullish about
Elon Musk wants you to know he’s a bit bored of cars. He built a ridiculous one but it didn’t make him happy. He turned the EV industry pacesetter into a mass-market producer of generic-vehicle-shaped-objects, which didn’t make him happy. He put the world’s most valuable marque on knick-knacks for the purpose of owning the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jürgen Klopp is to leave Liverpool FC at the end of the season after saying he has “run out of energy”, bringing the reign of one of the most successful managers in English football to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK has halted trade talks with Canada in a row over hormone-treated beef that will leave UK farmers and industry with reduced access to Canadian markets. The stand-off, which will affect cheese and carmakers,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to limit harm to Palestinians in Gaza in a politically explosive case brought by South Africa that alleges the country is committing genocide in the enclave. In
Accounting errors are a key factor driving Alaska’s Juneau School District into a shortfall amounting to more than 10% of its operating budget. But other underlying causes of the deficit are ones faced by other school districts in the state. Flat state funding and the end of pandemic-era federal relief funds combined with an aging
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There was a slight gasp among my headset-wearing neighbours in the World Economic Forum’s congress hall when Javier Milei blamed all political movements except his own for the west’s woes. “Whether they proclaim to be
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The International Energy Agency has warned of volatile gas prices this year, with conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine creating “an unusually wide range of uncertainty” in its forecasts. The west’s energy watchdog said
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s xAI is in talks to raise up to $6bn, as the Tesla and X chief looks to global investors, including in Hong Kong, to finance his challenge to Microsoft-backed OpenAI. The billionaire’s artificial
His wavy hair billowing in the wind, Rashed al-Haddad looked into the camera as his dinghy neared the Israeli-linked cargo vessel that has become an unlikely tourist attraction since it was seized late last year by Houthi rebels. In a video recorded in the shadow of the Galaxy Leader, now languishing off the Yemen coast,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the most well-established patterns in measuring public opinion is that every generation tends to move as one in terms of its politics and general ideology. Its members share the same formative experiences, reach
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Companies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. I loathe watching a bargain crumble click by click, crushed under the weight of unexpected charges. These irritants are known as “dripped fees” or “junk fees”, but other names came to mind including “situational-monopolist fees”, “too-exhausted-to-resist
During the winter, when there are no leaves on the trees, Jeanette Gilmour can clearly hear the sound of the M6 motorway from her home in the village of Audley. But she is worried that the rumble of background noise might soon become a big problem. The farmer’s field between the motorway and her village
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government’s top migration adviser has accused ministers of taking a “do as I say, not as I do attitude” by forcing the private sector to pay high wages for skilled workers, while allowing
An artwork juxtaposing Chinese yuan cash bills with the China’s flag Javier Ghersi | Moment | Getty Images China’s financial institutions should provide strong support to the country’s beleaguered real estate sector and not “blindly withdraw” financing for projects facing difficulties, according to a senior Chinese financial regulatory official. His strongly worded comments follow the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK consumer confidence reached a two-year high in January, according to research company GfK, in the latest positive sign for the economy. The consumer confidence index, which measures people’s views of their finances as well
The S&P 500 notched its fifth consecutive record close on Thursday, with the market making broad gains after solid economic growth data. The blue-chip index traded choppily in the afternoon, but eventually closed 0.5 per cent higher for the day, with more than three-quarters of stocks in the index rising. The energy sector led the
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon has shuffled his leadership team and consolidated some of the bank’s businesses, grooming potential candidates who could eventually take over from him. The leadership changes give new responsibilities to