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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. Bridge is a game of levels: is a play not made in error or can a negative inference be drawn? On this deal, both defenders were good enough to occlude a key position, but only

David Potts is to step down after nine years in charge of Morrisons © Free for editorial use Morrisons chief David Potts is standing down after nine years at the helm of one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains. He will be replaced next month by Rami Baitiéh, previously the chief executive of Carrefour France.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This is not a great year to be in the business of insuring satellites and rockets. In recent months, the California-based Viasat has announced malfunctions in two of its most eagerly anticipated satellites: Viasat-3, which

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is chief economist at German bank LBBW Little can increase a government’s financing needs like a war. Unsurprisingly, Ukraine’s public finances are just one of the countless victims of the past 18 months.

David Potts is to step down after nine years in charge of Morrisons © Free for editorial use Morrisons chief David Potts is standing down after nine years at the helm of one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains. He will be replaced next month by Rami Baitiéh, previously the chief executive of Carrefour France.

Three-fifths of urban populations will be aged under 18 years by 2030. Yet policies to engage with young people in guiding their education, employment, quality of life, and wellbeing remain limited. Renewed efforts are underway using innovative strategies to work with young people in shaping the future of their cities. As cities around the world

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. High-grade US companies are piling into the convertible bond market — typically the preserve of junk-rated issuers — as they try to minimise rising borrowing costs caused by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive campaign of interest

This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘#MeToo’s mark on industry’ Marc FilippinoGood morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, September 26th, and this is your FT News Briefing. It has been six years since the #MeToo movement began. Powerful men were held accountable after women began telling their

The announcement that the UK government will be watering down some of its net zero policies is a huge setback for manufacturers, who have put transition to net zero at the forefront of their business priorities (Report, September 21). Manufacturers require stability and confidence in order to invest. Many companies will have spent time and

Receive free HS2 updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest HS2 news every morning. Rishi Sunak has been warned by the new US owners of Birmingham City football club, in which NFL superstar Tom Brady has a minority stake, that he will damage trust in Britain if he aborts

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Evergrande, the struggling Chinese property developer, has cast serious doubts over the future of its debt restructuring plan, saying an ongoing official investigation will prevent it from issuing new notes. Evergrande defaulted on its debts

Turkey’s lira hovered near record lows on Monday as a series of sharp interest rate rises starting in June failed to relieve pressure on the currency.  The lira traded as low as TL27.21 against the US dollar in London trade on Monday, bringing its decline for 2023 to about 30 per cent, according to FactSet

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany’s central bankers are up in arms over a management consultant group’s “modernisation” plan for the Bundesbank, which aims to cut hundreds of jobs and overhaul work practices as the institution attempts to defuse political

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. French billionaire Xavier Niel has bought Czech energy tycoon Daniel Křetínský out of his stake in Le Monde, in a move that will advance Niel’s longstanding plan to put ownership of the newspaper in a

I found Brooke Masters’ article on Bernard Looney, the BP chief executive forced to quit last week after admitting he had failed to fully disclose his past relationships with work colleagues (“Sex, lies and magical thinking about CEO behaviour”, Opinion, FT Weekend, September 16), overly harsh. Masters says she did not have the inside track.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It won’t surprise anyone reading FT Alphaville that bank trading desks have evolved a fair bit over the past decade. The most obvious aspect is how broker-dealers have basically stopped being the latter. Bank prop

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Still Up, a new Apple series about insomniacs, might have been a Hopper-esque portrait of the exquisite loneliness of nighthawks. It could have been a dark study of that no-man’s-land between the dead of night

Receive free UK schools updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK schools news every morning. Rishi Sunak is exploring a radical reshaping of A-levels with a new “British baccalaureate” to modernise England’s education system, according to senior Whitehall insiders. The UK prime minister’s plans to reform academic post-16

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Craig Coben is a former global head of equity capital markets at Bank of America and now a managing director at Seda Experts. When asked in 1972 about the effect of the French Revolution, Chinese

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Adidas chief executive Bjørn Gulden has defended controversial rapper and fashion designer Kanye West over antisemitic remarks that his employer previously described as “unacceptable, hateful and dangerous”. “I don’t think he meant what he said,”