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Mar­tin Wolf’s column “Con­trolling debt is just a means — it is not a gov­ern­ment’s end” (Opin­ion, Novem­ber 13) high­lights the import­ance of gov­ern­ment adopt­ing the same account­ing prin­ciples as are employed across the private sec­tor to sup­port fin­an­cial decision-mak­ing. The bene­fits will be seen both in a bet­ter under­stand­ing of the state of gov­ern­ment

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Download crossword FT.com will bring you the crossword from Monday to Saturday as well as the Weekend FT Polymath. Interactive crosswords on the FT app Subscribers can now solve the FT’s Daily Cryptic, Polymath and

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Fund management myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Manulife is buying CQS, the UK credit investor founded by Lord Michael Hintze, as the Canadian insurer and money manager seeks to bulk up in the fast-growing area of private credit. The deal, announced on

Chaim Silberstein, a Jewish settler, can see only one response to the Hamas attack of October 7 — expanding the settlements and solidifying Israel’s already tight grip on the occupied West Bank. “Let us leverage this to strengthen ourselves, grow our communities and deepen our roots in our homeland,” he said in an interview in

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 former president of South Africa and chairs the African High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows The question of what to do with global corporate tax abuse, including tax havens, has

This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. David Cameron is back, and so is his way of doing politics. Rishi Sunak brought the former prime minister back into government yesterday and also promoted a host

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Global investment banks have criticised a blanket ban on short selling imposed by South Korean regulators, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stunned Westminster on Monday by restoring former PM David Cameron to the political frontline, and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like planking and peplums, meal kits are a 2010s trend that has grown stale. Blue Apron, once a near $2bn US company, has been bought by mobile restaurant start-up Wonder Group for $103mn. That should

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Continental has announced thousands of job cuts as an “initial” step towards improving competitiveness, as one of the world’s largest suppliers to the car industry battles to remain competitive in the electric vehicle era. The

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Geopolitical risks are at their highest level in half a century, the head of one of the world’s biggest oilfield services companies has said, raising concerns about energy supplies and helping to fuel a boom in

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US bank stocks have fallen to an all-time low compared with the blue-chip S&P 500 index, as demand for big-name technology stocks and the fallout from the banking crisis in March deter investors. The relative

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Lidiane Jones moved from a poor neighbourhood in Brazil to study computer science in the US on a scholarship, aged 18 and barely able to speak English, she was so homesick her mother would

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Australia is offering residents of the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu a chance to migrate to escape climate change as part of a landmark treaty with one of the countries most affected by global warming.

Martin Wolf spells out all the negative consequences for the world of a Trump victory in next year’s US presidential race (Opinion, November 8). Yet logically Donald Trump cannot be eligible to run for the presidency, because under the US constitution a president can only be elected for a maximum of two terms. As he

[MUSIC PLAYING] Governor Ueda, I’m really delighted to be talking to you at this interesting and important time about the Japanese economy, and may I congratulate you on your appointment as governor. Could we start by your giving us sort of a little explanation of where you think the Japanese economy is overall in terms

Home secretary Suella Braverman wants to eliminate rough sleeping by stopping charities from providing tents to homeless people (“Charities hit at Braverman’s tent plan”, Report, November 6). She also described sleeping rough as a “lifestyle choice”. Perhaps this lifestyle could be the opportunity for a feature in HTSI? Professor Kath Woodward Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK

The environmental charity WWF is set to report that the watch and jewellery industry’s sustainability efforts still leave “much to be desired”, five years after it published a damning report highlighting a lack of transparency. The WWF Watch & Jewellery Rating 2023, due to be published tomorrow, assessed 21 watch and jewellery brands according to

We write to express our con­cern about UK mon­et­ary devel­op­ments (The Big Read, Novem­ber 4). In April 2021 we signed a let­ter to you warn­ing that the then rapid growth of the quant­ity of money — of more than 15 per cent in the pre­vi­ous 12 months — would res­ult in well above-tar­get infla­tion. The

SHANGHAI — The number of Chinese individuals worth more than 5 billion yuan ($690 million) has fallen 15% from its peak in 2021, reflecting the property crisis-plagued economic slowdown and competitive e-commerce landscape. That is according to Shanghai-based Hurun Research Institute, which released its latest list of China’s wealthiest people on Tuesday. The total wealth

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The founder of Tencent-backed game-streaming site DouYu has been taken away by Chinese authorities, becoming the latest tech entrepreneur to run into trouble in the country. Two people familiar with the matter said