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 non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and director of the international affairs programme at the Kyiv School of Economics Recent discussions in the US focus on potential … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’ve still got my notes from the first review I wrote for the FT. God, I was so earnest! I scribbled observations about the quality and number of the bathrooms, and stained the pages with … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s obesity crisis is a sizeable profit opportunity. More than half of Chinese adults are overweight or obese — a figure expected to hit two-thirds by 2030. That is nearly 900mn people, a market far … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. To have faith in the recent uptick of multibillion-dollar valuations for tech start-ups that have no profits, no sales and no product to speak of, you have to believe normal rules do not apply. This, … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is senior research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank and has worked extensively in Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion The Trump administration’s decision to halt US military-technical … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Homebuyers in the US go to one agent to find a property, and another to find a mortgage. Rocket Companies wants to do both. This week it struck an all-stock deal to buy Redfin, the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. And so farewell to Northvolt. The European battery maker’s bankruptcy filing in Sweden has dealt a heavy blow to the continent’s hopes of developing a homegrown electric vehicle battery maker capable of even denting the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Earlier this year, my mother asked me to take her to Mecca in western Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, or the lesser pilgrimage. Arriving in the holy city one afternoon in January, we checked into … Read more
