Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The bond market put the brakes on Donald Trump’s mega-tariff plan earlier this month. Prices fell, people got “yippy”, and the US president blinked. But what delimits the comfort zone of his right-hand man and … 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 The Trump administration’s pivot away from being the primary guarantor of European security has been a boon for the continent’s arms makers. Shares in the UK’s BAE Systems, Italy’s Leonardo, France’s Thales and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinese artificial intelligence upstart DeepSeek proved crunching vast amounts of data need not guzzle so much energy. Elsewhere, GenAI is on a more energy — and capital — intensive track. But there are ways for … 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 It was inevitable that memes about JD Vance would surface the moment Pope Francis passed away. “It’s good to see you in better health,” the US vice-president told the pope on Sunday. The … Read more
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It would be so much easier if we said what we thought
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking,” wrote the lay theologian and children’s author CS Lewis in 1952. “Hope is … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Sage Group’s shares surged 19 per cent in November as it announced its full-year results, it said something about how unreliable the UK’s largest software company had become. It raised its dividend and announced … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the 1980s, the Honda Accord transformed the US market. At a time when American roads were dominated by oversized, gas-guzzling sedans, the Accord stood apart, compact, fuel efficient and reliable. By 1989, it had … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pope Francis, who died on Monday, once compared reforming Rome to cleaning the Sphinx of Egypt with a toothbrush. For someone possessed of papal infallibility, that’s a frank admission that the power of supposedly divinely … Read more