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Tech stocks surged on Monday, bouncing back after blue-chips slumped last week to end a nine-week bull run. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 2 per cent on Monday afternoon, heading towards its best day since mid-November as chipmaker Nvidia led the Magnificent Seven group of tech stocks with a 5.5 per cent gain. The benchmark

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I can’t pinpoint the precise time it happened but my transformation from a great parent to an embarrassing one was reinforced the other day when I casually dropped “rizz” into a conversation at home. It

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Tax experts have taken to social media in an effort to reassure panicking UK gig economy workers and online sellers over new reporting rules affecting the digital platforms they use. Under regulations that came into

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden launched a frontal attack on Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, as the president cast this year’s likely rematch for the White House as a battle to save US

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Tesla has lost its position as the world’s most popular maker of electric vehicles to Chinese rival BYD despite quarterly sales that beat analysts’ estimates. The US company, run by Elon Musk, delivered 484,000 cars

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British politicians should be wary of provoking a backlash in financial markets by increasing borrowing too quickly, the outgoing head of the UK’s Debt Management Office has said, ahead of a general election expected this

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On a bus for a “pilgrimage” to the grave of renowned Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, Hoda overheard others discussing what they would pray for when they reached “the holy site”. Their words made clear to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey has accused Israel of spying on its territory and plotting attacks on Palestinians living there as relations between the two countries worsen over the conflict in Gaza. Turkish intelligence agents and police carried out

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s central bank governor has urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rapidly curb public spending, warning that markets could react badly if his government failed to act over the Shk210bn ($58bn) cost of the war

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine on Sunday issued nationwide air raid alerts after several people were killed and dozens injured by Russian attacks in the eastern region of Kharkiv, two days after Moscow’s deadliest strikes on Ukrainian cities

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China has appointed a former navy chief as its new defence minister, four months after his predecessor disappeared from public view. Dong Jun, 62, replaces Li Shangfu, who was officially removed as defence

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A US appeals court has halted a trade tribunal order banning Apple from selling the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the US, the latest development in an ongoing patent battle with health technology

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How much is a bond worth? In 2023, investors learned that it depended on what you intended to do with it.  Think, for instance, of the US regional banking crisis that kicked off with the

The influence of China’s once-powerful central bank has diminished as Beijing steps up a drive to centralise Communist party control over financial regulation. Some of the powers formerly held by the People’s Bank of China have been taken over by a party oversight body and a revamped financial regulator as Beijing resets its growth model.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to fight on in the war against Hamas, despite a mounting death toll and growing international calls to alleviate the humanitarian suffering in the Palestinian enclave and halt

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. French President Emmanuel Macron has defended actor Gérard Depardieu, who faces multiple allegations of sexual assault and one of rape, saying calls for him to be stripped of his Legion of Honour medal amounted to

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation slowed much more sharply than expected in November to 3.9 per cent, down from 4.6 per cent in October, according to official data that will add to pressure on the Bank of England

BlackRock on Monday was sued by the US state of Tennessee, which accused the $9.1tn New York-based asset manager of violating consumer protection laws by misusing environmental, social and governance factors in its investment strategy. The lawsuit filed by state attorney-general Jonathan Skrmetti alleged that BlackRock had been inconsistent in stating whether it focused exclusively

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Adobe has terminated its proposed $20bn merger with product design software company Figma, following competition probes from EU and UK regulators. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said that combining the two companies would threaten