Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than 300 arm’s-length bodies will be considered for abolition or merger under UK government plans to cut waste and restore ministerial control over swaths of policy areas. Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden has written … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investors’ focus is unlikely to waver in the coming week from Donald Trump’s trade war. After the US president’s blitz of tariffs sparked a global sell-off this week — in a rout that intensified when … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Digital currencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. “It is imperative for the ECB to introduce a digital euro”, said Philip Lane, the European Central Bank’s chief economist, in a recent speech. Earlier last month Paschal Donohoe, president of the Eurogroup of finance … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The boss of London-listed Seplat wants to “demystify” Nigeria for international investors after completing a tortured billion-dollar deal with ExxonMobil that has transformed the company into one of country’s biggest oil producers. Two years ago … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff blitz has sparked the biggest sell-off in the US junk bond market since 2020, signalling growing angst among investors that an economic slowdown will hit corporate America. The premium investors … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Venezuela’s authoritarian socialist government is cracking down on the use of black market dollars as it seeks to protect the embattled bolívar currency in the face of US sanctions and “secondary” tariffs. The parallel exchange … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s first commercial pension “superfund” is planning to pour more than £3bn into private markets over the next three years, in a boost to chancellor Rachel Reeves’ attempts to increase investment in the economy. … Read more
At the end of four days of cross examination, Jes Staley stepped down from the witness stand and hugged his legal team. It had been a gruelling week for the former Barclays chief executive, who said he had endured public humiliation and had put his marriage at risk as he fought to overturn a lifetime … Read more
US companies are struggling to figure out how to respond to Donald Trump’s trade war, concerned about the impact of the president’s tariffs on the economy but wary of speaking out for fear of retaliation by the White House, according to executives and board members. Corporate leaders are unsure of how far to go in … Read more
March Madness in the US refers to a popular national college basketball tournament. This year you might apply that nickname to the harsh trade policies emanating from the US White House. President Donald Trump’s attack on its trade partners on April 2 knocked world stock prices into a funk and caused investors to scurry towards safe … Read more