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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rightwing influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left Romania on a private jet bound for the US, after prosecutors lifted restrictions banning them from leaving the country where they were being held on

Once Samkelo accepted the terrifying truth, he stopped doomscrolling on Facebook, lay on his bed and considered his options. The first thing he did was bring out the bottles and sachets of pills that were in his bedside drawer. He counted them out: 62 pink ones, 62 yellow ones and 62 white ones. Enough antiretrovirals

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lloyds Banking Group wrongly classified £44.1bn of customer deposits in figures submitted to the Bank of England, an error that fed through to official data used to scrutinise whether banks were short-changing consumers on interest

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the UK’s largest pension funds has pulled £28bn from State Street, in a high-profile example of an asset owner pushing back against the retreat from ESG among the biggest US asset managers.  After

Until last month, Canada’s Liberal party appeared destined for electoral oblivion. Its leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had just quit amid plunging poll ratings, blamed by voters for a stagnating economy and taunted as a “woke liberal” by a newly elected US president. But Donald Trump’s first month in power has galvanised Canadian politics. He

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. DeepSeek’s advances have sparked a nationwide push in China to deploy its large language models everywhere from hospitals to local governments as Beijing seeks to consolidate its gains in generative artificial intelligence.  Since the Hangzhou-based

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The problem with the future is that it hasn’t happened yet. Betting on companies whose value largely resides in educated guesswork is therefore not for the weak of stomach. Nvidia, Palantir, AppLovin and MicroStrategy —

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nvidia’s profits and revenues soared in the quarter to the end of January as a rush among technology companies to build artificial intelligence infrastructure continued to fuel booming demand for its advanced chips. The company

Sir Keir Starmer will warn President Donald Trump on Thursday that peace in Ukraine cannot be secured unless the US provides military cover for any European stabilisation force, in a high-stakes White House meeting. The push by the British prime minister comes despite Trump telling his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday: “I’m not going to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US lawmakers have expressed concern to the UK about China’s plan to build a massive embassy in London as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer prepares to meet President Donald Trump. Chris Smith, the Republican chair

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK financial watchdog plans to probe whether there are conflicts of interest at managers of private equity and private credit funds, shining a spotlight on to one of the fastest-growing and opaque activities

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world President Donald Trump says the US will not give Ukraine security guarantees “beyond very much”, as Washington and Kyiv prepare to sign a critical minerals deal on Friday. “I’m not going to make

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump said he had decided to slap 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the EU, as he lashed out at the bloc, saying it “was formed to screw the United States”.

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Ukraine and the US have struck a deal on the joint development of the country’s mineral resources through a “reconstruction investment fund”. The agreement, dated February 25 and first obtained by the Financial

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world More than $800bn has been wiped off global cryptocurrency markets in recent weeks, as the enthusiasm that swept the crypto industry after Donald Trump’s election victory last year ebbs away. The price of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain has an uncharismatic, accident-prone, over-regulating but ultimately serious prime minister. Imagine, for a moment, how much it must sting a man of the liberal left to cut foreign aid to fund a larger defence

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This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. The market “vibe shift” we have written about in the past few letters continued yesterday. Treasury yields fell

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Finance ministers from many of the world’s largest economies are poised to skip G20 meetings in South Africa this week, underscoring the declining relevance of the body at a time when global co-operation is faltering.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How much authority should democratic governments have to “snoop” on citizens’ online data and communications? The UK government has used new legal powers to demand that Apple create a “back door” enabling law enforcement bodies

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Kyiv has agreed terms with Washington on a minerals deal that Ukrainian officials hope will improve relations with the Trump administration and pave the way for a long-term US security commitment. Ukrainian officials