Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Yields on the longest-dated Japanese government bonds surged to record highs on Tuesday after a dismal debt auction added to investor fears of a lack of demand. The yield on the 30-year bond rose as … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland’s stock market has emerged as one of the world’s top-performing bourses this year, helped by the country’s relatively insulated position from the global trade war and an expected boost from neighbouring Germany’s fiscal “bazooka”. … Read more
One scoop to start: Graham Robinson, a top biotech and technology lawyer, is set to depart Skadden Arps for Kirkland & Ellis, according to people familiar with the matter, as the jockeying for talent among Big Law firms continues to heat up despite a slowdown in dealmaking. And a sharp Lex note: In a fallow … 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 Japan’s Nippon Steel has quadrupled its investment pledge in US Steel over the next few years in a major push to win over President Donald Trump and gain approval for the politically fraught … 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 President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill risks sharply increasing the US public debt, sparking alarm among investors and fuelling questions over how long the world will finance Washington’s largesse. US long-term borrowing … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The value of French grocer Casino’s debt has slumped to deeply distressed levels, as fears grow that continued weak earnings could trigger a breach of its loan covenants next year. Casino, which has lost market … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in leading Chinese battery maker CATL rose 12.6 per cent as trading began on Tuesday and retail investors followed up with strong demand for the biggest listing of the year to date globally. The … Read more
Feng Ji is the founder and CEO of Baiont, a top-performing quant fund in China that uses artificial intelligence to develop trading strategies. He argues quant trading is fundamentally a computer science task and predicts that quant fund managers failing to embrace AI will not last another three years. In this conversation with the Financial … Read more
