Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is US Trade Representative The year 2025 will be remembered as the year of the tariff, regardless of one’s economic ideology. International trade is neither good nor bad — it just is. The real … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Social affairs myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Remember the one about the software CEO, the head of HR and the Jumbotron camera? Earlier this year, Andy Byron, then CEO of the tech company Astronomer, and its then head of human resources, Kristin … 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 When imperial rulers sound a strategic retreat, their authority tends to crumble faster than they could have imagined — or feared. The lot of the Soviet Union and apartheid South Africa springs to … 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 Trump administration is suspending leases on all large offshore wind projects in a fresh attack on the sector, which the US president has repeatedly criticised. The US government cited national security concerns … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has agreed to personally backstop the $40bn equity financing of Paramount’s $108bn hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery, in an attempt to resolve doubts about the financing of the offer. Paramount … Read more
Chips, gold and guns have triumphed while ad companies and private equity struggled
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gold and silver prices rose to record highs on Monday as geopolitical tensions combined with bets on US interest rate cuts to prompt a renewed jump in the precious metals. The price of gold rose … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. What kind of holiday season will we have? If recent history is a guide, it will be K-shaped. The phrase “K-shaped” gained popularity during the pandemic as a way of describing an economy in which … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Russian general has been killed by a car bomb in Moscow, the country’s authorities said on Monday. An explosive device attached beneath a Kia Sorento went off at about 7am as Lieutenant General Fanil … Read more
When private equity firm Triton Partners created its first continuation fund in 2021, most investors were relieved. With the fund in its 13th year, this was a chance to cash out rather than keep their capital locked up in a tail of portfolio companies proving tricky to sell. Triton would pay them out by selling … Read more