Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Accounting isn’t real life. The dollar of revenue in your annual report isn’t quite the same as a dollar in the till. This is mostly OK and is often a good thing, from an investor’s … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Trust is slowly won but quickly lost. It has taken several years for Turkey to regain the confidence of international investors after president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s unorthodox economic policies stoked massive inflation. News on Wednesday … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Commission is making a fresh push for integration of EU capital markets that it says could free up investment from trillions of euros stashed in European savings accounts. The EU executive on Wednesday … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A handful of technology start-ups expected to publicly list their shares next month has led to cautious optimism on Wall Street of a long-awaited “window” for initial public offerings, despite a surge in market volatility … Read more
The surging price of gold is leading to some unexpected outcomes. The FT’s Aanu Adeoye traveled to Ghana to see how this is playing out among two of the country’s top commodities: gold and cocoa. Aanu and the FT’s Susannah Savage explain how the two commodities are linked and how it is impacting the people … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Indonesia’s central bank has intervened “boldly” in the foreign exchange market as the rupiah hovers around five-year lows amid concerns over a sluggish economy and President Prabowo Subianto’s expensive policies. The attempt to boost investor … Read more
Less than three years ago, the world’s biggest agribusinesses were riding their latest high as they cashed in on market chaos after Russia’s assault on Ukraine upended the global food supply chain and sent grain and oilseed prices soaring. Now the “ABCD” giants — Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus — have fallen … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “Stock vigilantes” is a term that only recently entered the markets vernacular. It is time to retire it again equally swiftly. It refers to the idea that if the going gets tough, and … 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 largest car insurers have piled hidden costs on top of double-digit interest rates for customers paying in monthly instalments, according to people familiar with the practice. Admiral and Aviva are among the car … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investors have poured $22bn into short-term US government debt this year after concerns over Donald Trump’s economic and trade policies set off a race for haven assets and sent stocks tumbling. Net inflows into short-dated … Read more