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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 director of the Turkey programme at the Middle East Institute and author of ‘Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria’ In a historic call last week, Abdullah Öcalan, the … Read more
A swath of Australia’s eastern coast around Brisbane, the country’s third-largest city, was bracing for the first cyclone forecast to make landfall in the region in decades, as the authorities warned of the potential for widespread flooding and destructive winds. The slow-moving Tropical Cyclone Alfred was expected to come ashore late Friday or early Saturday … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The road ahead for European carmakers is shrouded in fog. Trade tensions, competition from Chinese rivals, a sluggish domestic market and an uncertain transition to electric vehicles have conspired to sink the sector’s profits and … Read more
Earlier this year, The Holme, a 40-bedroom Georgian property in Regent’s Park that was listed for £250mn in March 2023, finally sold for £138.9mn. After almost two years of failing to attract buyers, it had achieved a price cut of more than £111mn. Sure, this is an extreme example of overvaluing at the very top end … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a law professor at the American University Washington College of Law Wall Street has long fretted about the disruptive threat from technology to the business of finance. Now with Donald Trump back in … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and formerly chief economist at the IMF The Trump administration has embraced the view that the US is the victim … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. University students have taken to artificial intelligence in the same way that an anxious new driver with a crumpled road map might take to satnav — that is to say, hungrily and understandably. A survey … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is executive director of More in Common UK It’s a good time to be Nigel Farage. Having won a parliamentary seat on his eighth attempt, Reform UK’s leader has built support … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For BlackRock, private asset ownership suddenly seems a lot more attractive than public company agitation. On Tuesday, a consortium that includes the manager of $12tn in client assets acquired control of a pair of Panama … Read more
