Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has embraced Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the steps of Downing Street as he launched an attempt to bolster the Ukrainian president after his explosive encounter with Donald Trump. Starmer
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The boss of British film studio Working Title has warned that UK government plans to weaken copyright laws to appease AI developers are an “existential threat” to the country’s creative industries. “We’ve been making films there
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At 9am on Saturday morning, a group of women spread across the busiest street in central Kyiv and stopped traffic to observe a minute of silence. A loudspeaker counted 60 ticks before blaring the opening lines of the national anthem — “Ukraine’s glory and freedom have not yet perished”. Drivers and passengers stepped out of
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has demanded the EU begin “direct discussions with Russia on a ceasefire” in the war against Ukraine. Orban also said he opposed efforts to find any consensus on Ukraine
Stocks of small UK companies are the “most unloved” in the world, according to analysis by Abrdn, as investors have pared their UK holdings and invested in US tech giants. The forward price/earnings ratio for MSCI’s UK small cap stock index fell to 24.3 per cent below its 10-year average at the end of January,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blackstone chief executive Stephen Schwarzman took home more than $1bn in 2024 as the private equity titan saw his income rise due to a rebound in investment activity at the world’s largest alternative investment group,
Show video info Donald Trump acknowledged that his relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy had grown “a little bit testy” ahead of the Ukrainian president’s visit to the White House this week. But that simmering stress in the connection between the two men erupted on Friday into a full-blown brawl in the Oval Office, reflecting the bad
European leaders rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his spectacular Oval Office bust-up with Donald Trump, but the rift between Kyiv and Washington leaves Europe with agonising choices about how to prop up Ukraine. Friday’s confrontation, where the US president accused the Ukrainian leader of “gambling” with a third world war, caused consternation in European capitals
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Show video info Friday’s unprecedented public row between Donald Trump, his vice-president JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reverberated around the world. Here are the five key moments as the spectacle unfolded:
<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21870451/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals were quiet Friday ahead of an $11 billion new-issue calendar as U.S. Treasury yields fell and equities ended up. The bond market’s attention has shifted from inflation and tariffs to economic growth issues, said BofA Global Research’s Yingchen Li and Ian Rogow. “Weak January retail sales and a
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump’s team raised the possibility of the US president’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland returning as a venue for the Open Championship during Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to the White House this
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Show video info It could not have gone worse. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House on Friday was supposedly a chance to salvage his relationship with Donald Trump after a stormy few
Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” as the US president cut short the Ukrainian leader’s long-sought meeting in the White House and told him to return “when he is ready for Peace”. In a joint appearance before the television cameras on Friday, the two leaders clashed even before the
Bridge-building has been a struggle for recent British prime ministers. Boris Johnson was widely mocked when he proposed a 28-mile link from Scotland to Northern Ireland, spanning a trench containing 1mn tonnes of unexploded munitions, chemical weapons and radioactive waste. Sir Keir Starmer was also greeted with some incredulity when he suggested on the eve
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A meeting that was supposed to bolster the flimsy trust between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump descended instead into an extraordinary slanging match in the Oval Office in front of
“It is totally counter-intuitive that a Republican district would be thinking about eliminating a tool that finances the very infrastructure and economic development and affordable housing in their district,” said Toby Rittner president and CEO of the Council of Development Finance Agencies. ”But this is a math game. The President wants certain things, and they have
Bond trustee UMB Trust has hired Lighthouse Management Group to serve as a receiver for a defaulted mining project.AdobeStock A Florida mining project that defaulted on its municipal bonds was put into receivership. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida appointed Lighthouse Management Group, Inc., to be the receiver for the
<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21869078/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Issuance in February remained strong despite only ticking up slightly year-over-year. February’s volume was at $33.725 billion in 622 issues, up only 1.6% from $33.191 billion in 614 issues in 2024, according to LSEG data. While issuance in February is essentially flat, supply remains strong in 2025, said David
ASA President and CEO Chris Iacovella Calling it a “unicorn regulatory body,” the American Securities Association challenged the constitutionality of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board in a brief filed Thursday that asks a federal appeals court to scrap an order that shortened the timeframe for reporting trades to the MSRB. The MSRB “is a quasi-public,
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