Has gold peaked?

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

White smoke for the White Sox

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hours after cardinals voted to name the first-ever American to head the Catholic Church, Leo XIV’s hometown of Chicago was consumed by an existential question: which baseball team did the pope root for? Chicago is … Read more

Europe needs smart rearmament

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “If Europe wants to avoid war, Europe must get ready for war,” Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said in March. Most European countries have finally confronted the need to spend big on … Read more

Fund management needs to make digital shift

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is chief financial officer at Schroders Advances in a range of technologies have brought the investment industry to the brink of a major step into the future. The evolution of artificial intelligence, big … Read more

How Trump made me a hundred grand

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Did you know that the Chinese characters for the phrase “tariff-induced crisis” are the same as those for “obvious buying opportunity for equities”? I learned that on Reddit. And what could better sum up the … Read more

Trump whiplash jolts AI

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world If there was any doubt that geopolitics has come to play an outsized role in the fortunes of the US artificial intelligence industry, look no further than the recent upturn in the fortunes … Read more