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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. A record number of large healthcare companies filed for bankruptcy in the US last year, underlining the industry’s struggles with problems ranging from rising costs to falling patient numbers and tougher regulation.  Eighteen companies with

My personal style signifier is a large-brimmed hat, often in prints to match my dresses. The colour palette is always shades of soft pastels – blues, lilacs and pinks. I got married in a wonderful straw hat wrapped in a long veil. Very Scarlett O’Hara.  One of Beccaria’s hats made from flower petals, designed and created in-house ©

As Bangladesh prepares for an election on Sunday, Minarul Islam, 37, is already resigned to the outcome. “If there was competition then I’d have a choice,” he said on a busy street in Dhaka, the capital. “But there isn’t, so I have to vote for the Awami League”, the ruling party of Prime Minister Sheikh

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. There is a fair chance that by the time the trees come into leaf in Washington, Frankfurt and London, this decade’s inflation crisis will definitively be over. The eye of the storm has already passed

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia has fired a second massive barrage of the new year on Ukraine’s capital and the country’s second-largest city, with the Ukrainian president calling on allies to accelerate financial and military aid to refill

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. (verb) the act of diversifying supply chains to avoid relying too heavily on one geography In 2023, the G7 nations decided to drop the dreaded word “decoupling,” when referring to their policy approach to China,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, the longest-serving monarch in Europe, has announced she will abdicate after 52 years on the throne. The 83-year-old queen, who took over the throne in 1972, will step down on January

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. David and Victoria Beckham more than doubled revenue from their business empire last year thanks to the former footballer’s Netflix and Amazon deals and tie-ups with other brands. DRJB Holdings, a company which includes David

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The most streamed artists on Spotify this year in France, Germany and Italy are rappers. They dominate the charts in their countries but are almost entirely unknown in the Anglosphere. Are we missing out? Let’s

This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to New York This year marked New York City’s first full annus this decade without pandemic restrictions in place, and the message was resoundingly clear: NYC is back. 2023 hailed dozens of new restaurant openings across the boroughs; while some skewed more maximalist than ever — think

The Financial Times Editorial Board (“The pitfalls of seizing Russian assets to fund Ukraine”, FT View, December 22) argues that “the west’s response must be seen to be legally irreproachable” when potentially confiscating Russian sovereign funds. Unfortunately, what the FT is demanding is unattainable given the urgent need to fund Ukraine’s war of self-defence. If

Paul Keres (1916-1975) was my chess hero in my distant youth. The elegant Estonian, who triumphed at Avro 1938 in a historic tournament of the world top eight, played in a classical style with tactical bursts and was widely viewed as the likely successor as champion to the ageing Alexander Alekhine. Then came the second world

February 23: PM Sunak in attempt to renegotiate Northern Ireland Protocol © Banx Rishi Sunak held hostage by Tory ‘malcontents’ on Northern Ireland, says Labour March 24: Inflation hits food prices  © Banx UK inflation jump and banking tumult complicate Bank of England rate decision April 6: Saudi Arabia cuts oil production © Banx Oil

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A veteran German asset manager has blamed Volkswagen’s “flawed” corporate governance for its share price underperformance and criticised its controlling shareholders for failing to address the issue. “Ever since the diesel scandal, the flaws [in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Clinton-era political adviser once fantasised about being reincarnated as the all-powerful bond market. Thirty years on, the fixed income world has, at times, seemed more intimidating than ever. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield climbed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US has said Iran has been “deeply involved” in planning Houthi attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea and warned Tehran of a possible response amid the increased threat to shipping through a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in China’s biggest online gaming companies recorded substantial losses on Friday after Beijing fired a volley of new measures to tighten control of the world’s largest gaming market. In a set of proposed guidelines,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government has said its plans to increase the salary threshold needed to sponsor a loved one for a visa will begin with a jump to £29,000, after a widespread backlash to proposals to

One thing to start: Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global are in early talks to merge, in a media deal that would combine the owner of HBO and CNN with the studio behind the Mission Impossible films and CBS News. David Zaslav, chief executive of Warner Bros Discovery © Bloomberg Welcome to Due Diligence, your

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