BUSINESS
A mooted fix for the Treasury market may actually increase systemic risk
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 professor of finance at Harvard Business School The turmoil in the $28tn US Treasury market following the early April announcement of tariff rises by the Trump administration revived unsettling memories of … Read more
Wait-and-see is not an option to ensure future climate resilience
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Lindsay Hooper is chief executive of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership Across major businesses, responses to climate change are diverging. Some are soft-pedalling their plans or quietly removing references from public view. Others are … Read more
Japanese leaders need to give up their rice obsession
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When you are the Japanese minister of agriculture and millions of citizens conditioned from birth to revere rice are agonising over record-high prices and depleted supermarket shelves, you have a couple of choices. You could … Read more
Trump and Farage are politicians for the post-TV age
Trump and Farage are politicians for the post-TV age
M&S hack attack will have tech firms ringing up the profits
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cyber attacks take longer to fix, and are more of a distraction, than bosses of afflicted companies tend to think at the outset. That’s what fellow chief executives have told Stuart Machin of Marks and … Read more
Target’s retail woes make it prime activist bait
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When a company wins a cute nickname from its customers, it’s usually a sign something is going right. That was true for Target, the US retailer of trendy but affordable fashion and home goods widely … Read more
Are female experts more credible?
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine an experiment in which the (otherwise identical) views of senior male or senior female economists are presented to the public. Which would you expect to be more persuasive? I think my first guess would … Read more
Listen to Afrikaners, not Trump, on the state of South Africa
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world If Donald Trump performs another of his spectacular U-turns and agrees to attend the G20 summit in South Africa in November, his host, President Cyril Ramaphosa, should promptly insist on entertaining him in … Read more
Putin thinks that time is on his side
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world “Vladimir, STOP!” was Donald Trump’s plaintive message after a recent Russian bombing of Kyiv. But Vladimir Putin is unlikely to stop. The Russian president thinks that time is on his side in his … Read more