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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. I’m one of the vanishingly small number of people who think inheritance tax is a cracking idea and very rational. Almost all the rest of the UK population hates it, which helps explain why there … Read more

At least 15,000 people were ordered to evacuate, tens of thousands more were without power and flood rescues were already underway in a swath of Australia’s eastern coast in the track of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, projected to be the first to make landfall in the region in decades. Alfred was expected to come ashore Saturday … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Exactly a week after the summer solstice last year (all my investment views are inspired by the heavens) I wrote in this column that “ . . . a new asset class is jiggling my contrarian bones: European equities”. … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This Isa season is set be a bumper one, and we have chancellor Rachel Reeves to thank. Growing fears that she will meddle with this valuable, long-established tax break mean Britons are stuffing huge sums … 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 recurring question in liberal circles during Donald Trump’s first term as US president was whether to take him seriously or literally. Seven weeks into his second term, it has so far been … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Waste is bad in any industry. Even more so if dealing with it costs billions of pounds a year. No surprises then that UK ministers are exploring whether changes to electricity pricing could reduce costly … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As far as the stock market goes, the universal obsession with artificial intelligence has mostly centred on Nvidia. It is not surprising: the market capitalisation of the AI boom’s signature chipmaker has more than quadrupled … Read more

Senior State Department officials have drawn up plans to close a dozen consulates overseas by this summer and are considering shutting down many more missions, in what could be a blow to the U.S. government’s efforts to build partnerships and gather intelligence, American officials say. The department also plans to lay off many local citizens … Read more

Ten things you should know about Trump’s tariffs but were afraid to ask