Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government has engaged in a dramatic rescue of British Steel, operator of the country’s last two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire. After recalling parliament from recess to pass emergency legislation, ministers have … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pay for Grant Thornton’s UK partners rose to an average of almost £700,000 last year as the accounting firm struck a deal to be bought out by private equity group Cinven. Grant Thornton said on … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Given the recent thumping their portfolios have taken, investors could be forgiven for thinking that equities must now be factoring in a lot of downside risk. False hopes help no one, however. US stocks are … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Big investors are more bearish about the prospects for the dollar than at any time in nearly two decades, according to data that underlines the hit to US assets from Donald Trump’s trade war. A net … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Here are some interesting lines from Apollo’s chartmeister Torsten Sløk, showing the spread between the bids and the asks for off-the-run and more liquid investment-grade corporate bonds (high-res link): We knew that credit markets were … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Energy Source newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday and Thursday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Welcome to Energy Source, coming to you from London where the International Energy Agency has just cut its expectations … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Growth in oil demand is expected to slow sharply this year because of the negative impact of US tariffs on trade, the International Energy Agency has warned in its first forecast since Donald Trump’s “liberation day” … Read more
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 Good morning. Sujeet here, subbing for Rob and Aiden. It is good to make another cameo at Unhedged today, this … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Brussels is exploring legal options that would allow European companies to break long-term Russian gas contracts without paying hefty penalties to Moscow. The European Commission has been studying the contracts and the possibility of declaring … 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 the latest part of the FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign Everyday Loans is getting a facelift. The subprime personal lending company that typically offers £3,000 loans last month rebranded as Evlo … Read more