Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China’s leaders have for the first time explicitly committed to reversing a fall in investment, one of main drivers of growth in the world’s second-largest economy. The pledge, made at the end of a two-day … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US trade myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US trade deficit narrowed more than expected in September to its smallest level in more than five years, raising hopes that net exports provided a boost to economic growth in the third quarter. The … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU business regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The EU has agreed to cut protection for new drugs to allow cheaper generics on to the market a year earlier to curb the rise in public spending on health. But the pharmaceutical industry … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a new magic spell bewitching Labour MPs, ministers and advisers, a belief that a pledge to start unstitching Brexit could save the party at the next election. All they have to do is … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The brilliant physicist Richard Feynman once famously remarked that “nobody understands quantum mechanics” given the counter-intuitive absurdity of nature. To which the pragmatic response of some other researchers has been to “shut up and calculate”. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Health secretary Wes Streeting has criticised his colleagues’ “technocratic” approach and called for better “storytelling” from Britain’s Labour government in the latest sign of tension in the cabinet. Although Streeting did not mention Sir Keir … 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 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has urged Donald Trump not to pursue a Ukraine peace deal “above Europe’s head”, as he offered to host talks with Washington on potential territorial concessions to Russia to … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Walt Disney Company has agreed to invest $1bn into OpenAI as part of a deal in which the artificial intelligence start-up will use Disney characters in its flagship products. As part of the three-year … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eli Lilly’s latest weight-loss shot helped patients lose as much as 29 per cent of their body weight in trials, giving another boost to the US pharmaceutical company’s booming obesity business. In a statement on … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK banks have pushed back against plans to use about £8bn in frozen Russian assets they hold, warning that the British government has not offered to indemnify them against potential retaliation by Moscow. Senior … Read more