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This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Oil prices are not a barrel of fun’ [MUSIC PLAYING] Marc Filippino Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Wednesday, September 20th, and this is your FT News Briefing.  [MUSIC PLAYING] Instacart had a solid debut on the public market. And oil

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US’s top defence official on Tuesday downplayed Ukraine’s requests for longer-range missiles but pledged to meet Kyiv’s “most urgent” air-defence needs, just days before President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to ask for more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BP has named Kate Thomson as interim chief financial officer, following last week’s management upheaval prompted by the sudden resignation of chief executive Bernard Looney. Looney quit after admitting he had failed to disclose the

When a private Qatari jet carrying five Iranian-US nationals touched down in Doha, US president Joe Biden was finally able to claim a success after months of secretive, high-stakes talks between Washington and Tehran. The five dual nationals had been imprisoned for years in the Islamic republic — some on accusations of spying for the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US interest rates myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US Federal Reserve is set to conclude the year with two high-stakes meetings as it prepares to hold rates on Wednesday and defer any further tightening amid mixed signals from the world’s largest

It’s really great when a chart tells a story. Your chart comparing job categories and median ages in Eva Xiao’s Datawatch piece “Alarm grows over rise of US gerontocracy” (Report, September 18) tells such as story. It shows that at median age 19, the core job category is working in a restaurant, at 47 it

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When you first meet Jim, he hardly speaks. His room is bare and piled high with boxes. He won’t make eye contact. But after a few months he begins to open up. He tells you where he was born and when he came here. He shows you his DVDs of Snow White and the Seven

A sweltering summer evening in London – one of the few the capital will see this year – and the fashion industry is cramming into a small church community centre in Highgate. The essentials of the place haven’t changed in decades – old pub stools, discernibly sticky floors – but multicoloured lights dot the ceilings, a walkway

Receive free Arm Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arm Ltd news every morning. Shares in SoftBank-backed chipmaker Arm jumped by 10 per cent as it began trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Thursday. Arm opened at $56.10 per share on Thursday afternoon, significantly above the $51

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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. The UK government is poised to announce a £500mn-plus subsidy to secure the future of Britain’s biggest steelworks at Port Talbot in Wales but it will not prevent the ultimate loss of about 3,000 jobs.

This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘The Russian Banker, Part 3: Asylum’ Stefania Palma It’s 2015. Sergei Leontiev has just fled Russia after paramilitary troops stormed his bank. He first lands in London, where he lawyers up and he quickly learns his problems have followed him there. He’s being

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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. One of the world’s largest law firms is launching a dedicated space law practice, as the clamour to counsel the booming exploration industry intensifies. DLA Piper will join the likes of Mayer Brown and Hogan

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Some scientists believe that rapid advances in artificial intelligence may also hold the key to decoding animal sounds, allowing us to ‘translate’ them into human language. In a new season of Tech Tonic, FT innovation editor

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I arrive for my meeting with @GstaadGuy at Mayfair private member’s club Oswald’s not sure if I’ll be interviewing the social media influencer himself or whether he’ll be in character as one of his two

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s younger generation is in danger of being worse off than its predecessors, the government’s social mobility chief has warned, pointing to stagnating wages, marked geographic inequality and the impact of London’s “overheating” housing

One of the Bank of England’s more hawkish policymakers on Monday indicated that she did not back pausing interest rate rises, arguing that the UK central bank still needed to do more to ensure tighter monetary policy was working. Speaking to a business audience in Canada, Catherine Mann opposed recent suggestions by senior members of