Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Electric vehicle buyers fret about range. Investors in Volvo Cars have similar worries about the staying power of the carmaker’s new strategy. The company has promised to end production of internal combustion cars by 2030.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel will begin withdrawing some troops from Gaza this week, in the first significant reduction of its forces in the besieged enclave since the war with Hamas erupted almost three months ago. The Israel Defense
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The number of people arriving in the UK by small boat via the Channel fell by more than a third in 2023, marking the first year-on-year decline since records began in 2018, according to government
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK and the US have stepped up pressure on Houthi rebels as the Yemeni movement targets commercial vessels passing through the Red Sea, disrupting a critical maritime trade route. UK defence secretary Grant Shapps
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is a cliché that US presidential elections present momentous choices with long lasting consequences. In reality few live up to that billing. The difference between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson in 1952 or between
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As it prepares to enter the third year of full-scale war against Russian invaders, Ukraine needs significantly more troops. But given the risk of a public backlash, the task of raising men for the armed
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan issued a string of tsunami warnings after a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck the west coast on Monday, triggering widespread blackouts and evacuations during New Year celebrations. The Japan Meteorological
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK insurance industry has urged ministers to adopt a light-touch regulatory regime for so-called captive insurance companies to encourage hundreds of businesses to bring these subsidiaries onshore and fill a gap in London’s
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Big multinational companies will from Monday be subject to a global minimum tax for the first time, as landmark cross-border tax reforms go live, seeking to raise up to $220bn in extra annual revenue. Almost
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Central banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. (adjective/adverb) central bank speak for a sustained period of tight monetary policy, intended to quench inflationary pressures without triggering a recession Alan Greenspan famously said he had “learnt to mumble with great incoherence” after becoming
Last year taught us to worry about clever chatbots, this year we will find out if artificial intelligence is ready for much wider use. Financial Times reporters consider this and other trends affecting businesses from defence contractors to energy majors, luxury and private equity. Technology Trend to watch If the biggest tech story of 2023
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than a billion dollars worth of Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral drugs procured in Europe have been wasted, according to health data, as tight controls over who can receive the medication left millions of doses unused
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, the longest-serving monarch in Europe, has announced she will abdicate after 52 years on the throne. The 83-year-old queen, who took over the throne in 1972, will step down on January
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s campaign in Gaza will continue for months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, dashing any hope of a swift end to a war that is already the bloodiest in 75 years of conflict between
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chinese President Xi Jinping has used his annual new year address to the nation to sound a warning to Taiwan’s voters days ahead of the island’s presidential election, while highlighting his country’s technological
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. (noun) a vague, geographically inept and yet emotionally resonant term for what was once known as the developing world To appreciate the rise to prominence of the term “global south” this year, the best analogy may
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine on Sunday issued nationwide air raid alerts after several people were killed and dozens injured by Russian attacks in the eastern region of Kharkiv, two days after Moscow’s deadliest strikes on Ukrainian cities
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The quest to revive Britain’s leading position in the EU’s €95.5bn Horizon science programme after three years away will face its first big test in January with a deadline to “pump-prime” new applications. Leading UK
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If I told you that I had made 17 new year’s resolutions — everything from doing more work and exercise to spending more time with my family — you’d probably suspect that I was being
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accounting & Consulting services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Accountants enjoying downtime over the holidays know they will return in January to the notorious “busy season”, when audit firms race to sign off on clients’ annual financial statements, as staff work late
At the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce, in the heart of one of America’s politically pivotal swing states, Joe Biden spoke proudly of his record in office — one he hopes will propel him to re-election in 2024. “All this groundbreaking work is producing groundbreaking results: record job creation, historic economic growth,” the president told