Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Switzerland will hold a vote on a radical proposal to cap the country’s population at 10mn people, a move that could threaten crucial agreements with the EU and limit companies’ access to skilled foreign workers. … 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 economy added 130,000 jobs in January, beating market expectations, in a sign of improvement in the American labour market following a string of bleak data. Wednesday’s figure from the Bureau of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An unsustainable situation can be sustained for quite a long time. John Major, Gordon Brown and Theresa May all governed the UK for years after the apparent collapse of their authority. On balance, it is … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kraft Heinz has put its planned break-up on hold, as its new chief executive disclosed plans to invest $600mn to turn around the struggling food company. Steve Cahillane, who took over as CEO in January, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in the UK’s largest wealth managers tumbled on Wednesday over concerns about potential disruption from a new AI-led investment tool. St James’s Place, Britain’s biggest wealth group, fell as much as 13 per cent, … Read more
Am I the only one still using email instead of WhatsApp? Perhaps so. I find it ever harder to persuade my contacts — and more vexingly, my friends — to use email for important messages instead of interrupting me with the ping of an instant message. And my failure to persuade others is a problem, … Read more
The carriers say the £33bn plan for a new runway is unaffordable. The airport says the companies just want to keep out competitors
French President Emmanuel Macron faces an obstacle to his ambitions to develop a flagship Franco-German next-generation fighter jet programme — a mid-sized French defence contractor that one would have assumed would do his bidding. But family-controlled Dassault Aviation has long had an independent streak and outsized influence as the main provider of France’s homegrown combat … Read more
Trump administration has pressured Ukrainian leader to hold both votes by May 15 or risk losing security guarantees
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Heineken will cut up to 6,000 jobs over the next two years, amounting to about 7 per cent of its global headcount, as the Dutch brewer struggles with declining demand for beer. Beer volumes fell … Read more