Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft shares fell as investors were spooked by a 66 per cent surge in data centre spending and slower than expected cloud growth, despite strong demand for AI services boosting profits by almost a quarter. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta said its capital expenditures could nearly double to $135bn this year as part of its radical AI spending plans, while record revenue boosted its share price more than 10 per cent in after-hours trading. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tesla’s annual revenue declined for the first time in 2025 as President Donald Trump’s policies and a consumer backlash to chief executive Elon Musk’s political activism weighed on its sales of electric cars. Revenue decreased … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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 … 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 Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that the UK has reopened discussions with the US over the Chagos Islands deal, after criticism from Donald Trump last week cast doubt over its future. The UK … Read more
The most spectacular Fed-related development since the December vote has been Jay Powell’s decision criticise the Trump administration’s attempts to undermine the central bank’s independence. Powell revealed this month that he had received grand jury subpoenas from the Department of Justice demanding more information on the Fed’s $2.5bn renovation of its headquarters, with the US … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UPS said it would slash up to 30,000 jobs this year and close at least 24 facilities, as the logistics group reckons with a decrease in package volume from Amazon, its largest customer. The job … Read more
As thousands of Iranian families have this month buried loved ones killed in the deadliest street protests in their country’s history, social media has been filled with unexpected scenes: families and friends dancing, clapping and ululating at their funerals — all as music blares around them. At the recent burial in the northern city of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britons, we are frequently told, just don’t have it in us to risk our hard-earned cash on spicy endeavours such as speculating on stock markets. Unlike our American cousins, we are supposedly too timid, too … 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 US currency rebounded on Wednesday morning after US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration was still pursuing a “strong dollar policy” and was not seeking to intervene to boost the … Read more