Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence from Britain next year and Northern Ireland wants pride of place at the party. From Charles Thomson, the founding father who designed the Great … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Many a boss will sympathise with HSBC as the bank mulls ditching physical annual general meetings. Traditionally associated with retirees scarfing canapés while griping about abominable service in the Sevenoaks branch, AGMs offer little of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has already faced one legal battle over sending loose tweets in the midst of negotiating a deal. Early next year he will have to convince another California jury in a federal court that … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I am the owner of a mid-sized manufacturing business. A supplier of mine has just gone into administration — they owe me a significant amount of money as a number of the goods which they … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump’s “liberation day” of supposedly “reciprocal tariffs” against the rest of the world — arguably, the most eccentric trade policy proposals ever made — has, after a hasty retreat under fire from … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Activist investors start with a simple enough idea: take an underperforming company, sometimes with too much debt. Push it to slim down. Hammer its remaining business into reasonable shape. And then enjoy a veritable gush … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A booming stock market. Confident executives. Optimistic consumers. Who would have thought that the scene for all this jollity would be Germany? Germans are at their most positive since last August, according to a consumer … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Chris Giles on Central Banks newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Kevin Warsh, the presumptive heir to Jay Powell as Federal Reserve chair, gave a speech last … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Food apps are governed by the law of the jungle: eat or be eaten. Deliveroo, despite a hearty dominance in the UK, was always going to be fodder. Its stock has been ravaged, making for … Read more
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