business

The welcome return of the vowel

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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. Recent weeks have brought multiple examples of companies reversing course — on diversity policy, green energy targets and flexible working — as the corporate world adapts, sometimes shamelessly and self-interestedly, to the fast-changing political landscape. … Read more

Thames Water has to keep borrowing and carry on

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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 US industrialist J Paul Getty is said to have remarked that “if you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100mn, that’s the bank’s problem.” Although Thames Water may … Read more

Markets might not have a hold on Trump

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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 Good morning. Tired of uncertainty? Too bad: the Trump administration backtracked again on its tariffs on Canada and Mexico, giving … Read more

Trump needs to find a solution for Intel

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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. Is Donald Trump’s White House giving up on trying to create a US national champion in chip manufacturing? And, if so, how can it guarantee a supply of the advanced semiconductors that are likely to … Read more

The reawakening of Germany

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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. Call it a very big bazooka indeed, or Germany’s “whatever it takes” moment. There are few more striking signs of how Donald Trump is upturning the old world order than incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz’s epochal … Read more