Fuel and fury: energy becomes a Middle East battlefield
Fuel and fury: energy becomes a Middle East battlefield
TotalEnergies gas project in Mozambique faces UK human rights probe
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Authorities in the UK have commissioned a human rights review into a $20bn gas development in Mozambique, as they assess whether to keep funding the project led by France’s TotalEnergies. Four people familiar with the … Read more
US borrowers opt for ‘greenhushing’ of bond sales under Trump
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US green bond sales have fallen since Donald Trump won a second term as president, as companies seek to avoid unwanted attention by backing away from or playing down their environmental activities. A total of … Read more
Rio Tinto’s CEO search marks changing of the guard at big miners
At the opening last week of the Western Range iron ore mine in the remote Pilbara region of Australia, Jakob Stausholm gave one of his final speeches as head of the world’s second-largest mining company. “When I was interviewing for the job as CEO, I said succession planning starts on day one,” the Rio Tinto … Read more
What history tells us about the impact of an oil price jolt
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is author of ‘Blood and Treasure, the Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to Ukraine’ Worries over geopolitical risks have regularly featured towards the top of polls of investor concerns over the past … Read more
UK ordered 24-hour ministerial access to British Steel plant, documents show
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK ministers ordered British Steel to give them 24-hour access to the country’s last blast furnace facility when they seized control of it, a sign of the high concern that its Chinese owner Jingye would … Read more
Abu Dhabi’s Adnoc bids $19bn to take over Australia’s Santos
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A consortium led by Abu Dhabi’s national oil company has bid to take over one of Australia’s largest energy companies for around $19bn (A$29bn). Adelaide-based Santos said that XRG, comprised of the Abu … Read more
Business Education: Financial Training
The FT’s 2025 ranking of the top schools for financial education, alongside deep dives into key issues: finance grads target jobs outside banking roles, how to fix carbon reporting, arts school grads embrace entrepreneurship, and why business schools are redesigning their curriculums
Tomorrow’s financiers are learning to think like machines
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world of finance has evolved beyond spreadsheets and human judgment. In today’s markets, many finance roles now involve navigating vast data sets, interpreting machine learning outputs, and making sense of AI-generated forecasts. Business schools … Read more
Finance masters shift from idealism to pragmatism on under fire ESG
Not long ago, business schools were clambering to launch environmental, social, and governance (ESG) courses to meet ballooning demand. Fuelled by regulatory momentum, investor scrutiny and a wave of student interest in aligning purpose with profit, growth accelerated from the late 2010s onward. More recently, however, ESG education has encountered pushback, particularly in the US, … Read more