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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Waiting for the Tube, I see a poster for an upmarket gym chain. Locations? “City of London. High Street Kensington. Dubai.” What a shame to choose a setting that is so disfigured with bad

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The IMF has warned that jitters surrounding Donald Trump’s threat to impose trade tariffs were driving up longer-term borrowing costs and would add to pressures facing the global economy in 2025. Speaking to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government is drawing up fresh growth initiatives in an effort to avoid “disastrous” tax increases after a punishing week in the markets that threatens to derail its policy agenda. UK borrowing costs climbed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The wealthy are accustomed to choosing private healthcare and private schooling, but now private divorce is an option too. Thanks to intense delays in waiting for court appointments and unwanted publicity once they get them,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chair of a cross-party group of MPs has written to the heads of the UK’s financial watchdog and the London stock exchange to raise concerns about fast-fashion group Shein ahead of its planned IPO.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When bond markets get sticky, it is unhelpful to be the ugliest horse in the glue factory. Sadly, that is the role now performed by the UK. It has been a grim start to the

Sir Keir Starmer met a senior member of Bangladesh’s ousted ruling party last month, despite the Awami League facing accusations of embezzlement and of allowing its security forces to kill protesters. The UK prime minister met Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury, the ousted mayor of the city of Sylhet and a key party figure, at a dinner held

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US Supreme Court justices appeared sceptical about TikTok’s efforts to throw out a federal “divest-or-ban” law on Friday, as the social media platform warned it could “go dark” in one of its biggest

Consumers face a darkening outlook across their borrowing and investments due to a UK debt market sell-off that has deepened since the new year. Yields for UK government bonds, or gilts, along with US Treasuries and other sovereign bonds, have risen as investors expect interest rates will remain higher for longer due to stickier-than-expected inflation.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brompton has warned against axing tariffs on Chinese bicycles and parts as the UK’s largest bike manufacturer predicted that cheaper imports could “kill” the business. The UK government is reviewing tariffs inherited from the EU

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US economy blew past expectations to create 256,000 jobs in December, sending yields on long-term US government debt to the highest level since 2023 and pushing stocks to the lowest point since Donald Trump’s

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is a technology entrepreneur and investor. In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was correct. But understood

Patty Burns, a 93-year-old with a sparkling memory, has lived in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles for more than 60 years. She always kept a black suitcase filled with important documents at the ready, in case of a fire.  On Tuesday, she needed it. Her daughter, who lives just up the road, arrived

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK government borrowing costs edged higher on Friday but remained below Thursday’s peak as investors await a key US jobs report later in the day. The 10-year gilt yield rose by 0.03 percentage points to

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Stock investors are brushing aside economists’ gloomy predictions about US president-elect Donald Trump’s economic policies, betting instead that his plans will boost corporate earnings and power the market higher. Wall Street’s S&P 500 benchmark soared to record highs last year and, although there has been a recent pullback, equity strategists have predicted gains of about

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The world breached 1.5C of warming last year for the first time, top international agencies said, as an “extraordinary” spike in the global average temperature sparked fears that climate change is accelerating faster than expected.

China’s government bond market has opened 2025 with a clear warning for policymakers: without more determined stimulus, investors expect deflationary pressures to become even more entrenched in the world’s second-largest economy. China’s 10-year bond yield, a benchmark for economic growth and inflation expectations, fell to a record low of less than 1.6 per cent during

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BlackRock has become the latest financial firm to bail out of a big climate change industry group in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as US president and heightened regulatory scrutiny. The world’s largest money

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Elon Musk heaped praise on the “very reasonable” co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany as she joined the technology billionaire for a discussion about Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump and the existence of aliens. In