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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US officials have asked Taiwan to clarify the presidential front-runner’s contentious remarks about White House visits, highlighting doubts over his approach to relations with China if he secures victory in January’s poll. At a recent

Hello and welcome to Working It. Two beloved colleagues left the FT this week and it reminded me of the importance of marking those occasions. We celebrated their time here with drinks and warm words. Ritual is as important at work as it is in the rest of our lives, although we often forget it.

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Michael Moritz myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Michael Moritz is leaving Sequoia Capital after almost 40 years leading the Silicon Valley firm’s investments in companies including Google, Yahoo, YouTube and PayPal. The departure of one of the tech industry’s best-known investors from

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Clifford Chance LLP myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Clifford Chance, one of the UK’s so-called magic circle law firms, has ruled out a merger as it recorded its first-ever year with revenues of more than £2bn. The global law firm said it

Some of the negative reaction to the chancellor’s proposed pension reforms is depressing but unsurprising (Report, July 11). Pension trustees should be willing to embrace positive changes that continue to protect the primacy of members’ interests, while enabling greater diversity in investment strategies, particularly if this brings significant potential benefits to the wider economy. After

British government ministers are fond of reminding voters that the UK has the second-most Nobel laureates of any nation and four of the world’s top 20 universities. It is a comforting counter-narrative in an era when the country seems to be struggling to keep up with developed-country peers on everything from productivity growth to healthcare

Receive free Chinese politics & policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese politics & policy news every morning. China’s outspoken foreign minister Qin Gang has not been seen in public for more than three weeks, missing important diplomatic engagements and prompting growing speculation about his whereabouts. Qin

Europe will need to step up its response to Washington’s Inflation Reduction Act as the US programme to finance the industrial green transition is set to be larger than expected, Brussels’ economy chief has warned. Paolo Gentiloni, the EU economy commissioner, told the Financial Times that the bloc had enough money on the table for

Receive free On Wall Street updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest On Wall Street news every morning. The writer is a former investment banker and author of ‘Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon’ How much is a top chief executive worth to a company?

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Miranda Green is joined by FT columnists Stephen Bush and Robert Shrimsley to ask whether there’s any way out of the economic and political “doom loop” afflicting Rishi Sunak’s government. Plus, the FT’s political editor George

Receive free Travel updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Travel news every morning. This August, I’m heading to the Swiss Alpine village of Klosters en famille. With two toddlers in tow, we will have to skip the 700km network of hiking trails. Our activities will be gentler: refreshing

US biotech start-up Grail is being sued by three former female employees who claimed that it fostered a “toxic work culture” for women by failing to properly respond to their complaints about sexual harassment, racial discrimination and a hostile environment. Grail, a Silicon Valley-based start-up that pioneered an all-in-one blood test for early cancer detection,

The writer is chair of Marks and Spencer When Margaret Thatcher came to power, she recognised that, for free enterprise to succeed, ordinary people needed to feel they had a stake in society. A million council house tenants were enabled to buy their own homes and, when our nationalised industries were privatised, large allocations were

“It’s like a declaration of war,” Robert Habeck, Germany’s vice-chancellor and economics minister, said last month. The object of his ire was not the Russian invasion of Ukraine nor Chinese military exercises around Taiwan. Instead, he was complaining about the raft of subsidies and tax breaks for manufacturers on offer in the US — Germany’s

Wall Street stocks and US government debt rallied on Wednesday while the dollar tumbled after inflation fell more than expected in June, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep raising interest rates. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 stock index rose 1 per cent to its highest level since April 2022, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq

Receive free Romania updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Romania news every morning. Romanians are reeling from revelations that care homes kept elderly people in squalid conditions, failing to feed or tend to them for months, in a scandal reminiscent of that faced by the country’s orphanages in

Do Conservatives still believe in capitalism? Or to put it less starkly, do they still have faith in their economic model? For decades, Tories were unified behind Thatcherite economics that preached free markets, private enterprise, lower taxes, fiscal prudence, deregulation and globalisation. Free trade was an unquestioned good. Oligarch money was welcome in London, China

Receive free Television updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Television news every morning. Ebon Moss-Bachrach may not be “The Bear” in Hulu’s hit kitchen-based TV drama of that name, but he has made a name for himself playing a character that’s both aggressive and endangered. His performance as

Sweden is on the cusp of joining Nato after Turkey dropped its objections, in a historic turning point for the Scandinavian country that cherished its militarily non-aligned status for more than two centuries. Swedes became aware of Moscow’s growing aggressiveness when the Russian air force simulated a nuclear attack on a facility close to Stockholm

European equities slipped on Monday, extending last week’s decline while stock markets in Asia edged higher even as new data showed China’s economy on the cusp of deflation. Europe’s region-wide Stoxx 600, France’s Cac 40 and Germany’s Dax all shed 0.2 per cent in early trading, while London’s FTSE 100 was steady. Those moves came