Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world US regulators collected 61 per cent less in fines for money laundering and sanctions breaches in 2025, after watchdogs took a more lenient approach under President Donald Trump. Total fines imposed by the … Read more
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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. Warner Bros Discovery plans to reject the latest takeover proposal from Paramount, even after billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison agreed to personally backstop the $108bn hostile bid. WBD’s board still views the $83bn deal it … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US rate-setters clashed at their meeting this month over whether or not to prioritise fighting inflation over a cooling labour market, minutes of one of the most divided monetary policy votes in recent decades highlighted. … Read more
The UK’s industrial conglomerates were once a cornerstone of the domestic market. But the FTSE 100 this year lost the last of those diversified engineering and manufacturing businesses, with the break-up of Smiths Group and the slimming down of DCC. After decades of retreat by public market investors from the sprawling business models, the unravelling … Read more
US stock valuations are higher than before 1929 Wall Street crash but the dominance of a single sector has precedents
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ministers should have been made aware of inflammatory tweets by the UK-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah before his arrival in Britain last week, according to the former head of the UK Foreign Office. Lord Peter … 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 Ukrainian officials rushed on Tuesday to contain the diplomatic fallout of a Russian allegation that Kyiv’s long-range drones had targeted Vladimir Putin’s residence, calling it a falsehood designed to sabotage negotiations with the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US dollar is heading for its steepest annual drop since 2017, with Wall Street banks predicting further weakness next year as the Federal Reserve presses ahead with interest rate cuts. The greenback has slumped … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eurostar has warned of “severe delays” due to a fault in the power supply in the Channel Tunnel, threatening to disrupt travel for thousands of travellers. The train operator said on Tuesday that because of … Read more