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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. Can an offer at a near-60 per cent premium to the market price substantially undervalue a company?  That is what Direct Line Group’s board maintains. The UK insurer rejected a £3.3bn offer from Aviva which

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. George Osborne, the former UK chancellor, is among a group of four partners at Robey Warshaw to share £70mn in profits after the boutique advisory firm posted record revenues on rising deal activity in London. 

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Takeover interest in UK companies stepped up on Thursday, as Macquarie made a fresh offer for waste management group Renewi, marking the third approach for a London-listed group in less than 24 hours. Macquarie announced

Staring at the enormous mound of rubble that used to be her home, Mariam Hosni clutched her daughter’s hand, which gripped a picture of Hizbollah’s venerated former leader Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated by Israel as it escalated its offensive two months ago. The Hosnis’ building in Beirut’s southern suburbs was levelled in the fierce Israeli bombardment

The Dow topped 45,000 for the first time but Wall Street’s main indexes closed lower on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq leading declines as technologystocksslumped ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Worries the Federal Reserve may be cautious about rate cuts after stubbornly strong US inflation data weighed on investors. The Dow Jones Industrial Averagefell 138.25 points,

Shares in drone maker Unusual Machines surged more than 100% on Wednesday after the company announced Donald Trump Jr. had joined its advisory board. Shares drifted down throughout the day, but were still up 76% by Wednesday afternoon. The stock had closed at $5.36 a share on Tuesday and traded at more than $9 on

Billionaire Elon Musk, tasked with slashing government costs by President-elect Donald Trump, on Wednesday called for the elimination of a federal regulatory agency charged with protecting consumers in the financial sector. The comment on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) followsMusk’srecent appointmentto a government efficiency role, further amplifying the influence of the world’s richest man, who

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after reportedly requesting the meeting with the president-elect to discuss the incoming administration Wednesday. Its an important time for the future of American Innovation. Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members of his

American Academy of Neurology Nov 27 2024 People who have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) who have a family history of mental illness may have a higher risk of aggression in middle age, according to a study published in the November 27, 2024, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

BMJ Group Nov 28 2024 Certain hormone replacement therapy (HRT) tablets containing both estrogen and progestogen are associated with a higher risk of heart disease and rare but serious blood clots known as venous thromboembolism (VTE) in women around the age of menopause, finds a study from Sweden published by The BMJ today. Another HRT tablet called

Billionaire Elon Musk, tasked with slashing government costs by President-elect Donald Trump, on Wednesday called for the elimination of a federal regulatory agency charged with protecting consumers in the financial sector. The comment on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) followsMusk’srecent appointmentto a government efficiency role, further amplifying the influence of the world’s richest man, who

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after reportedly requesting the meeting with the president-elect to discuss the incoming administration Wednesday. Its an important time for the future of American Innovation. Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members of his

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 political journalist and disability advocate I read the draft of the assisted dying bill as soon as it was published, just after 10pm on a Monday, fear and anger surging through

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If the fast-fashion group Shein manages to become one of the largest UK-listed public companies next year, no one can claim to be unprepared. Founded in China, headquartered in Singapore, spurned by US politicians and

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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia has used cluster munitions and other highly destructive bombs to target Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, prompting emergency shutdowns across the country on Thursday. “Again, the energy industry is under massive enemy attack,” said energy