Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Foreign Office is reviewing a payout of up to £40,000 to Lord Peter Mandelson after he was sacked as UK ambassador to the US last year, as the scandal over the peer’s links to … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Top UK government bond investors have urged Rachel Reeves to relax Treasury constraints on borrowing by development corporations in a bid to streamline big projects such as the Oxford-Cambridge Arc and boost growth. In a … Read more
Until the US spirited Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro away to a jail cell in New York, the strongman’s image and voice dominated the airwaves. The former bus driver, like his predecessor Hugo Chávez, made rambling and folksy speeches that were carried in full by state broadcasters, sometimes for hours. Even if there was little to … Read more
Brendan Mahony is sometimes referred to as the Grim Reaper at parties. He and his staff routinely deal with clients in tears. But the entrepreneur insists his job is not depressing. His start-up, Sunset, handles the death of businesses — one of a number of consultancies offering specialised legal, administrative and even emotional support to … Read more
Almost a fifth of FTSE 100 chief executives live outside the UK, underlining the international make-up of the blue-chip index as London frets over the status of its stock market. Nineteen chief executives running London’s largest listed companies live in locations ranging from the United Arab Emirates to Switzerland and Italy, according to an FT … Read more
The world’s most expensive hotels charged record prices last year as wealthy travellers splashed out for access to amenities such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy and sound baths, defying a slowdown in the broader luxury sector. Revenue per available room — a key measure of growth in the industry — at ultra-luxury hotels jumped 10.6 per … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Banks are speeding up the marketing period for initial public offerings in Europe, in an effort to shield new listings from the turbulence that has rocked global equity markets during Donald Trump’s first year back … 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 “It’s the story of a man who is falling from a 50-storey building. At each floor, as he falls, he comforts himself by repeating: jusqu’ici tout va bien [so far, so good], jusqu’ici … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. William Lewis, hired in 2023 by Jeff Bezos to turn around the Washington Post, is stepping down as chief executive and publisher after the company fired about 300 of its roughly 800 reporters this week. “Now … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Voting has started in Japan in an election that has transformed national politics and appears on course to hand a historic power boost to the country’s first female prime minister. Sunday’s election to the lower … Read more