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 on Thursday accused Hamas of reneging on parts of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, as he faced pushback against the US-brokered agreement from his far-right allies. Israel said…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s economy shrank for a second straight year in 2024, underlining the severity of the downturn facing Europe’s manufacturing powerhouse. The Federal Statistics Office said on Wednesday that Europe’s largest economy contracted by 0.2 per…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump faced “sufficient” evidence to have been convicted at trial for seeking to overturn the result of the 2020 US presidential election, according to the special counsel who led the case against…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The dollar hit a two-year high against major currencies on Monday, with the pound the biggest faller, after strong US jobs data late last week led traders to slash expectations for further interest rate cuts by…
Ole Jørgen Hammeken was at sea far inside the Arctic Circle when the Inuit elder found a crumpled old business card in the pocket of his sealskin coat that had survived almost a decade of blizzards and storms. It belonged to Donald Trump Jr. The younger Trump had met Hammeken in 2016, hoping the Greenland…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Waiting for the Tube, I see a poster for an upmarket gym chain. Locations? “City of London. High Street Kensington. Dubai.” What a shame to choose a setting that is so disfigured with bad…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world EU officials are analysing hundreds of executive orders and sanctions imposed by US President Joe Biden amid growing concern that Donald Trump will rescind them, potentially upending foreign relations and trade. Brussels is…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK 10-year borrowing costs climbed further on Thursday as a bond market sell-off deepened, hitting the pound and threatening to derail the Labour government’s fiscal plans. The 10-year gilt yield rose as much as 0.12…
China’s currency has weakened to a 16-month low following strong US economic data overnight and as the potential for sharp tariff increases from the incoming Trump administration fuels concern over growth prospects for the world’s second-largest economy. The onshore renminbi fell 0.1 per cent to Rmb7.33 against the dollar on Wednesday, its weakest since September…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Tech group Tencent and the world’s dominant battery maker CATL are among a swath of Chinese companies that have been designated by the Pentagon as having alleged military links, in a move that sent the…