BUSINESS

Investors can tell a lot from how a CEO departs

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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 armed services have a long tradition of carefully calibrated deference. In the US, for example, a humble one-star general only merits a ceremonial eleven-gun salute. In contrast, crews fire their guns 21 times for … Read more

Japanese market walks a geopolitical tightrope

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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. In the unfolding drama of global trade tensions, Japan once again finds itself a target of US pressure. But unlike the 1980s, when the conflict centred on a rising US trade deficit fuelled by Japanese … Read more

Do Treasuries hedge stocks right now?

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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. 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

Protecting ‘Australianess’ in the Netflix age

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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. Australian producers are often asked for “red dirt or white sand stories” when pitching TV shows to an international audience. The desolation and threatening aura of the outback, or the sprawling beaches festooned with surfies … Read more

A market rout made in the White House

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world On Monday morning traders woke up to signals of carnage across their screens. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index closed down over 13 per cent, marking its worst single-day fall since 1997. In Europe, … Read more

The Makassar Strait is a sign that global rules are being rewritten

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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is affiliate professor at ESCP Business School Paris, senior researcher at Square Management and a Dauphine University fellow On February 28, the president of the European Commission visited Delhi to accelerate a comprehensive trade … Read more