Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels is to extend the EU’s lenient approach to policing state subsidies, as it unveils guidelines this week that will allow member states to keep pouring cash into cleantech investments until the end of the decade. … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US has charged 12 Chinese nationals, including two public security officials, with involvement in a hacker-for-hire campaign on Beijing’s behalf whose targets included American government agencies. The justice department indicted 10 of the Chinese … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a law professor at the American University Washington College of Law Wall Street has long fretted about the disruptive threat from technology to the business of finance. Now with Donald Trump back in … Read more
For the first time in more than 30 years, Europe’s defence sector is hot property. After decades in which European military budgets were squeezed to fund other commitments, US President Donald Trump’s hardline approach towards Ukraine and calls on allies to shoulder more of their security burden have forced the region’s leaders into action. Governments … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Energy Source newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday and Thursday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Hello and welcome to Energy Source, coming to you from New York. US President Donald Trump has made adjustments … Read more
Hello, this is Kenji. This week, I am writing this newsletter from Beijing, where I am covering the so-called Two Sessions, the political show performed in the heart of the Chinese capital in early March every year. The “two” refers to the National People’s Congress (NPC), the rubber-stamp legislature under the one-party authoritarian regime, and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Advertisers have returned to Elon Musk’s X in the months since the election, according to WPP boss Mark Read, who said the London-listed advertising group was now working with the social media platform to win … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Stripe has shot back to a valuation of more than $90bn, in a sign of rebounding fortunes for financial technology businesses that have been boosted by a surge in demand from artificial intelligence companies. The … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The world is experiencing a string of intense weather, from the polar vortex in the north to a cyclone near south-east Australia, as the latest data show the global temperatures that contribute to extremes continue … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As you might expect, the protests have been creative, even quirky. More than 1,000 artists, including Annie Lennox and Kate Bush, supported the release this week of a silent album containing nothing more than background … Read more