A gated complex of five architecturally noteworthy homes is rising on a five-and-a-half acre site just west of Austin, Texas. Located in upscale West Lake Hills, the five-bedroom homes are priced from $12.5 to $18 million with living spaces from about 6,700 to nearly 10,000 square feet. Described as a “private collective,” the five glass-rich
This article is an onsite version of our Europe Express newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday and Saturday morning Welcome back. Germany is to have a new political party — and it will be unusual in two respects. First, it takes its name from its founder,
A shopper passes in front of a North Face store at the Easton Town Center mall in Columbus, Ohio, on Jan. 7, 2021. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Company: VF Corporation (VFC) Business: VF Corp. is a consolidator of consumer footwear and apparel brands. It engages in the design, procurement, marketing and distribution
Antony Blinken returned to the Middle East on Friday with a publicly declared mission of convincing Israel to use restraint in its war in Gaza and to press for humanitarian pauses. But the US secretary of state arrived with another goal as well: to start talks on what will follow the war. The increasingly bloody
US secretary of state Antony Blinken was set to meet Arab envoys in Jordan on Saturday as fierce battles raged between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters on the outskirts of Gaza City. The fighting picked up pace after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a US plea on Friday for a “humanitarian pause” to allow
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Gallup, the polling and consulting group, is pulling out of China, making it the latest foreign company to retrench from the country amid rising scrutiny of western consultancies and whipsawing geopolitical tensions. The
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a member of Abba, founder of Pophouse Entertainment and president of CISAC Expectations were sky-high. It was November 22 1968 when Benny Andersson carefully removed the plastic sleeve from The Beatles “White”
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former US Department of State official Anyone who expected much daylight, let alone serious tension, between the Biden administration and
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the past three months, Qantas has been found guilty of illegally sacking 1,700 workers, been accused of offering “ghost flights” to its customers, and lost 20 per cent of its stock market value. So
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In a white-collar working environment, at least a British one, which member of staff would receive the following compliment? “She just runs the place, that’s all!” Or how about this one, which might come
Just a few weeks ago, the Rustom Bakery in southern Gaza was offering customers pizzas, shawarma sandwiches and Thai wraps, and even had a delivery service. But after four weeks of constant Israeli bombardment, the bakery in the town of Khan Younis can only produce a single basic item: thin flatbread loaves for which thousands
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. GB News has given shares to some of its top presenters and contributors, including former Conservative business secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, ex-UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage and Arlene Foster, former first minister of Northern Ireland.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bankers who launch companies on to stock exchanges for a living are generally some of the more cheerful souls you will encounter in financial markets. Not for them the professional grouchiness of bond market grumps
Municipals rallied Friday across the curve sending triple-A yields lower by as much as 13 basis points as they continued to play catch up to the moves in U.S. Treasuries, which also saw more gains after a weaker jobs report further signaled Fed rate hikes may be done. Equities closed the week in the black.
Two major offshore wind projects in New Jersey got the ax as their developer, Danish energy company Ørsted, reassesses its U.S. portfolio citing sustained inflation and rising construction costs. Mads Nipper, Group President and CEO of Ørsted, on Tuesday said the company was “extremely disappointed” to cancel Ocean Wind 1 and 2, a pair of offshore wind
Eurozone central bank governors enjoyed a night out dancing to the theme song from Zorba the Greek last week after they met in Athens and unanimously agreed to stop raising interest rates for the first time in 15 months. The rate-setters could be forgiven for letting their hair down after the surprisingly harmonious meeting. Even
The United States Federal Reserve has sent a cease-and-desist letter to crypto media publication Bitcoin Magazine, accusing it of trademark violations, according to a Nov. 3 post from the publication. Bitcoin Magazine claims it is being targeted because of its use of the word “FedNow” on “t-shirts, hats, and other wearables.” FedNow is the trademarked
The notion of channeling federal dollars devoted to infrastructure improvement into affordable housing including office conversions located near mass transit is picking up steam. Quantifying the possibilities and costs offered by the concept remains elusive but recent research is revealing new possibilities. “We end up concluding something on the order of 10% of the existing
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s push for a “pause” in Israel’s assault on Gaza has highlighted how allies are pivoting from unconditional support for Israeli self-defence to a focus on the humanitarian crisis in
Bitcoin (BTC) soared above $35,000 on Nov. 2 and that may have sucked in the aggressive bulls who speculated that the next leg of the up-move was beginning. However, the price quickly turned around and fell back below $35,000 signaling that the breakout may have been a fake move. A mild correction during an uptrend
One of the most talked about interior design and fashion trends this year was the “Tomato Girl,” aesthetic. Hardly a microtrend, #tomatogirl has more than 25 million views on TikTok, and #tomatogirlfall has more than 14 million views. It’s clear this trend isn’t going away any time soon. There’s a good reason for this—it’s polished