Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Of all the Trump trades to hit the skids, Tesla stands out. The share price of Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company has plummeted from a post-election high of nearly $480 to less than $282 last … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shortly before travelling to meet Donald Trump, Sir Keir Starmer announced last week that “we will keep our manifesto commitment to spend 2.5 per cent of our GDP on defence. But in light of the … Read more
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. The big market news over the weekend, if you want to call it that, was a Trump social … 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. Private equity firms once had a script, of sorts. Buy an asset, load it up with debt, fix it and then flip it. But in recent years, weak M&A markets and soldered IPO windows have … 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 founder and chief executive of Trivariate Research Analyst ratings on stocks are a regular feature in financial news coverage. Upgrades, downgrades and price target changes can often create volatile one-day price movements … 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. Why put all your eggs in the same basket, when you can put them in someone else’s? That is the message from the four daughters of Fred “Big Chicken” Adams, collectively the family behind the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Friday’s blistering spat in the White House produced one winner. On Monday morning, European defence stocks including Germany’s Rheinmetall, France’s Thales and BAE Systems shot through the roof. Expectations of government spending have pumped up … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Venture capitalists have a concept they call the “power law” — the idea that the bulk of returns in a portfolio comes from just a few investments. CoreWeave, a US data-centre operator that has filed … Read more