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The rise of Eurozone bond yields outside Germany is unwarranted

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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. The writer is group chief economist at Société Générale Long bond yields in the Eurozone have risen sharply on the back of the “whatever it takes” fiscal measures presented by Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, on … Read more

Private equity’s struggles

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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. 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 … Read more

The dizzying shifts in the global economic narrative

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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. Flick through sell-side research notes from the end of last year and you’ll find plenty of analysts crowing about “US exceptionalism”, China’s “uninvestability” and Europe’s dull stock markets. In the two months since President Donald … Read more

Why ships are the new chips

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The world looks different from the North Pole. Most maps chart the planet from east to west. But look at the world from the top down, and you suddenly see America’s relative position … Read more

Five optimistic scenarios for the global economy

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This article is an on-site version of Free Lunch newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Thursday and Sunday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Happy Sunday. Many thanks for your responses to the last newsletter, which went viral in Canada. I waded … Read more

How did we do? Fine until you asked

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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. The other week I made the disturbing discovery that Google Maps thinks the London apartment building I have lived in for the last 19 years is located at an address I have never heard of.  … Read more

Bloomsbury’s reliance on superstar authors is writ large

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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. In Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood, the character Nagasawa dislikes books that everyone else is reading because “you can only think what everyone else is thinking”. Publishers don’t worry about that. Take Bloomsbury, a publisher … Read more