Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Education myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is director of the Social Market Foundation think-tank “I love the poorly educated.” Donald Trump may have put it in the crudest terms, but the former US president is not alone among politicians on
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One note to start: In this special edition of DD, we’re looking ahead to some of the biggest themes that will affect dealmaking, private equity, corporate finance and much more in the coming months. We’ll be back to our scheduled programming on Tuesday, January 9. Thanks for reading and happy new year from Arash, JFK
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Fund management myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Asset managers have launched the lowest number of funds for UK investors in two decades, as higher living costs and interest rates have prompted investors to move out of investment funds. Some 397 funds started
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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. In his warehouse workshop, Wu Chi-kai, one of Hong Kong’s few remaining neon craftsmen, has for decades bent glass tubes into one of the most instantly recognisable symbols of the Chinese territory — brightly coloured
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UK economic growth will continue to be “anaemic” ahead of the general election, according to leading economists who called on the government to boost investment to revive the country’s economic prospects. Among nearly 100 economists who responded to the annual Financial Times questionnaire, the prevailing view was that living standards would improve in 2024 for
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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. (verb) the act of diversifying supply chains to avoid relying too heavily on one geography In 2023, the G7 nations decided to drop the dreaded word “decoupling,” when referring to their policy approach to China,
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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. Chinese group BYD has moved a step closer to unseating Tesla as the world’s top-selling electric-vehicle manufacturer after reporting bumper fourth-quarter sales. The Shenzhen-based company, which has become emblematic of China’s rise as a powerhouse
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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. 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.
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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. 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
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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 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
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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. 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
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