Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sanae Takaichi’s landslide election victory on Sunday sent Japanese stocks through a succession of record highs this week, but even as paper profits were being totted up some investors in Tokyo were starting to wonder … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Investors are shying away from buying the dip in a volatile sell-off of perceived “AI losers”, choosing instead to stand on the sidelines until the full scale of the economic disruption becomes clearer. The launch of … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has insisted that elections the US has pressed Ukraine to hold by May 15 can only take place two months after a ceasefire is declared, to ensure voters have adequate security. Speaking … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The pay of Wall Street bank bosses soared last year as six of them took home more than $250mn combined, potentially further widening the gap with average bank workers. The heads of the largest US … Read more
Amazon is embarking on the largest capital spending programme in its history, seeking to regain momentum against AI rivals by expanding data centres, developing chips and building models. The group is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears its cloud arm, AWS, is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts, according to more than … 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 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for a “reinvigorated” partnership between the US and Europe based on a shared “great civilisation”. In a speech at a security conference in Munich on … 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 EU must bring its mutual defence clause “to life”, Ursula von der Leyen has said, pitching the bloc as an alternative to Nato as a security guarantor for its members. The European … Read more
The trade deal signed between the US and Taiwan this week brings Washington’s tariffs on Taiwanese exports in line with those of other big trading partners. But it excludes the core of the two countries’ trade relationship: chips. The deal builds on Taiwan’s pledge last month that its tech companies would invest $250bn to make … Read more
The organisation faces a potential rival in Donald Trump’s fledgling ‘Board of Peace’. But as a forum for US power, it would be a hard act to follow
Why apologise for what was the most successful international order in history?