The fight to protect US data has begun

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Three years ago, Sebastian Majstorovic, a German historian and data scientist, embarked on a striking rescue mission. After Russia invaded Ukraine, he co-created a 1,000-strong network of fellow nerds — two-thirds of them … Read more

Donald Trump’s investment deals are a mirage

This article is an on-site version of Free Lunch newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Thursday and Sunday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Hello readers. If there is one thing US President Donald Trump obsesses over even more than the size … Read more

Make London liquid again

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Another quarter, another blow for London’s faltering stock market. On Thursday, UK fintech Wise said it planned to switch its primary listing to New York to improve liquidity in its shares. On Wednesday, Cobalt Holdings, … Read more

The emperor has no tanks

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter Europe is in the midst of a huge surge of spending on defence. Over the past decade, military budgets in the EU have … Read more

The brutal truth about today’s lay-offs

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine waking up one morning and lying in bed, checking your overnight emails before you have to make a work call to France, when you see a message from your company’s chief executive. It says … Read more

Chardonnay is the world’s most changed wine

Wine styles have evolved enormously this century, from concentrated and beefy to fresher and lighter. But no varietal wine has changed as much as Chardonnay. The Chardonnay that featured so frequently in Bridget Jones’s Diary was big, bold and comforting. It wouldn’t be now. White burgundy is the classic (and most expensive) example of Chardonnay, … Read more

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: the crisis of trust

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In part one of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discuss how trust in the postwar world economic system is being … Read more

The trend strengthening the hand of big credit houses

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 bond portfolio manager at Barksdale Investment Management and editor of ‘The Credit Investor’s Handbook’ The junk bond market has roared back to life, making May the busiest high-yield bond issuance month … Read more