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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. Greenland knew what it was doing when it warned that if US and European miners would not help it exploit its minerals, it would turn to China. Geopolitical and trade tensions have spotlit China’s dominance … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the early days of my obsession with eBay, a comically aggressive message was often added to the description of items offered for sale: no timewasters please. What’s that all about? I said to myself. … Read more
Business deployment of artificial intelligence has reached a tipping point. UBS is deploying virtual research analysts to brief staff on market trends. The chief executive of Anthropic is warning that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs in one to five years, with major lay-offs by companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Google and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is always a treat to be invited to lunch by a fancy auction house. But when this happened a few months after I retired from my 30-year City career, the occasion felt different. There … 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 Donald Trump has been on quite a journey since the days when he said bitcoin “seems like a scam”. This week, the Trump family media company said it was raising $2.5bn from investors … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Forget the lipstick effect. This year’s most promising recession-proof trade does not involve beauty purchases that chase away the blues, but elflike plush toys with rabbit ears and a mischievous grin. Meet the Labubu. Made … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Start-ups and companies seeking scale-up funding no longer flock to the stock market as readily as they once did. Many bypass the high street banks too. The reason? They have other options thanks to 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 British have a reputation for loving underdogs. The flip side of this is that we also enjoy seeing the mighty have a wobble. And there’s nobody mightier than the US president. The investment consensus … Read more
There was a time when we had no television in our home. Televisionlessness became part of our identity — distinguishing us as bohemian, or at least people at the intersection of “cosmopolitan” and “busy”. It’s a signifier of taste, not unlike the trope of gay men who won’t tolerate overhead lights. A laptop proved good … Read more
My two days in Bordeaux earlier this month were pretty sobering. Our small group of UK wine professionals arrived the day after a vigneron two decades younger than us, in the decidedly superior Castillon appellation, died by suicide. All the media coverage around his death linked it to the current crisis in Bordeaux. He was … Read more