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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. Nvidia shares hit a record high on Wednesday, marking a turnaround for the chip company following a rocky start to the year marked by US-China tensions over critical artificial intelligence technology. The US chip designer’s … Read more

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Federal Reserve has kicked off one of the biggest reductions of US bank capital requirements since the 2008 financial crisis by proposing to allow higher leverage at the biggest American banks. The central … Read more

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Shell has denied it is in talks to acquire rival BP after months of speculation about a deal that would combine the UK’s two biggest oil companies. “No talks are taking place,” said … Read more

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Accountancy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US audit regulator has fined the Dutch arms of Deloitte, PwC and EY a total of $8.5mn after finding “hundreds” of staff cheated on internal training exams including ethics tests, in the latest such scandal … Read more

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Czechoslovak Group, one of Europe’s largest ammunition makers, will slash its interest costs almost in half on up to €1.8bn of debt, in a sign of investors’ newfound enthusiasm for the continent’s defence … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The price of cobalt jumped on Monday after the world’s biggest producer extended a ban on exports of the battery metal, in an effort to support the market following a sharp sell-off in recent years. … Read more

The two types of stablecoin are boring and exciting. Boring is where it’s at right now. Issuers like Circle and Tether have spent the past year or two making their stablecoins sound as boring as possible, better to compete against banks and merchants whose planned stablecoins promise to be very boring indeed.  Meanwhile, there’s this: … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What makes a mineral critical? Governments and markets may take different views. Vanadium, which appears on the official US list, is getting no special treatment from commodity buyers. Despite a few spikes, the benchmark price … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Monte dei Paschi di Siena said the European Central Bank had approved its proposed takeover of larger rival Mediobanca. The Italian lender said in a statement on Wednesday that the central bank had given the … Read more