Neil Woodford times his second coming to perfection

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Neil Woodford picked an auspicious week to try a resurrection. The former UK fund manager, whose eponymous investment boutique collapsed in 2019, announced plans for a new “investment strategy platform” — dubbed “W4.0” — on … Read more

Dubai chocolate sparks pistachio shortage as TikTokers go nuts

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The meteoric rise of Dubai chocolate has triggered a global pistachio supply crunch, exacerbating a worldwide shortage of the green nut and sending its prices soaring. The bars, a marriage of pistachio cream, shredded pastry … Read more

The flaky case for buying the dip

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Either the mighty US mom-and-pop investor base knows something we don’t, or it’s heading for a bruising. Right now, the amateurs are sitting pretty. Domestic retail investors were, by all accounts, conspicuously active buyers of … Read more