Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an FT contributing editor This month the Federal Reserve decided it would cut its own workforce by a tenth over the next several years. The move has been reported as a way … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world’s largest meat processor JBS said shareholders approved a plan to list its shares in New York, fulfilling a long-held desire of the Brazilian billionaire brothers who transformed their family slaughterhouse into a global … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The policy choices of the Trump administration have emphatically put the dominance of the dollar’s global reserve status in doubt. The big question is whether anything else is ready to take up the slack. A … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A former Credit Suisse banker who was paid $200,000 by a senior colleague using money from bribes has been banned from UK financial services, in the latest fallout from Mozambique’s $2bn “tuna bonds” scandal. The … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The main reason I found Day of the Triffids terrifying as a boy was the realisation that I would have for sure been one of the first people to gawp skyward at the green meteor … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investor jitters about the state of the US public finances have put the dollar on track for its worst week since President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs announcement rocked markets at the beginning of April. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Legal & General, one of Europe’s largest asset managers, is merging two investment units and culling about 80 roles as part of a broader restructuring to cut costs and refocus the business on higher-profit markets. … Read more
Ludovic Phalippou is professor of financial economics at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. A decade ago, Steven Davidoff Solomon, a UC Berkeley corporate law professor, published in the New York Times an article entitled: “Private Equity Fees Are Sky-High, Yes, but Look at Those Returns”. The message was simple. Retail investors were understandably … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan’s core inflation rate climbed at its fastest rate in more than two years in April, piling pressure on the Bank of Japan as it seeks to normalise the country’s interest rates and the unpopular … Read more