Gold and silver hit record highs on geopolitical tensions (www.ft.com)
China hits EU dairy industry with levies of up to 42.7% (www.ft.com)
Russian general killed in Moscow car bomb (www.ft.com)
Donald Trump names special envoy for Greenland (www.ft.com)
The year in review (part one) (www.ft.com)
The asset management year in review (www.ft.com)
Hawkish Fed overtones not expected to last long into 2026 (www.ft.com)
Ministers set to lay out details for ‘Northern Powerhouse’ rail scheme in new year (www.ft.com)
UK cannot ignore deep-sea threat from Russia, head of Navy warns (www.ft.com)
Apollo cuts risk and stockpiles cash in preparation for market turmoil (www.ft.com)
BoE alternative scenarios failing to bring clarity to rates policy, economists warn (www.ft.com)
US mortgage lenders insure against artificial intelligence screening errors (www.ft.com)
Year in a Word: Remigration (www.ft.com)
What David Ellison can learn from a hostile bid battle of his father (www.ft.com)
Milei’s ‘chainsaw’ minister pushes major reforms for 2026 (www.ft.com)
How upbeat battlefield briefings are fuelling Putin’s confidence (www.ft.com)
Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement (www.ft.com)
How one PE group’s deals show the risks of firms selling to themselves (www.ft.com)
UAE’s Jewish community lays low in wake of Gaza war (www.ft.com)
London’s best new restaurants of 2025 (www.ft.com)
China uses green tech dominance to take early lead in clean fuels race (www.ft.com)
How ‘Made in Britain’ became cool again for heritage clothing brands (www.ft.com)
Is Switzerland losing its place in the world? (www.ft.com)
Happy K-shaped Christmas (www.ft.com)
The stock market winners and losers of 2025 (www.ft.com)
Japan official warns on yen’s ‘sudden’ weakness (www.ft.com)
Trail hunting to be banned in England and Wales (www.ft.com)
US steps up blockade of Venezuela by seeking to board third oil tanker (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Indonesia sends military to help clear forests at rapid pace (www.ft.com)
Fraudsters use AI to fake artwork authenticity and ownership (www.ft.com)
Europe needs strategic purpose matched with action (www.ft.com)
JPMorgan questioned Tricolor’s accounting a year before its collapse (www.ft.com)
Betting against New York is always a losing proposition (www.ft.com)
Israel to build 19 more settlements in occupied West Bank (www.ft.com)
Manchester police refuse to say if synagogue attacker’s phone was examined before incident (www.ft.com)
Foreign buyers snap up cheap UK companies as dealmaking hits new high (www.ft.com)
Market upheavals drive biggest gains since 2008 for macro hedge funds (www.ft.com)
A new maritime security architecture for the UK and her neighbours (www.ft.com)
A year of Trumpian attacks on the rules-based international order (www.ft.com)
Will markets stage a last-minute Santa rally? (www.ft.com)
Sweden boards sanctioned Russian vessel off its coast (www.ft.com)
How Bill Clinton became the focus of the Epstein files (www.ft.com)
In praise of male courage (www.ft.com)
Inside Tencent’s deal to use Nvidia’s best AI chips in Japan (www.ft.com)
Fidelity pledges crackdown on excessive corporate pay (www.ft.com)
Alcohol consumption falls to record low in Britain (www.ft.com)
Role reversal: how foot-dragging France blindsided newly assertive Berlin (www.ft.com)
Wool is no longer the black sheep of agricultural commodities (www.ft.com)
Chinese stocks cool on weak economic data (www.ft.com)
The unlikely Arab kingmaker aiming to sway Israel’s next election (www.ft.com)
Has Kemi Badenoch steadied the Tories’ sinking ship? (www.ft.com)
Indonesia calls in military to help clear forests at rapid pace (www.ft.com)
Year in a word: Affordability (www.ft.com)
US coastguard boards tanker carrying Venezuelan oil in Caribbean (www.ft.com)
US justice department under fire for removing Trump image from Epstein files (www.ft.com)
The ‘outrageous’ cost of sports tickets (www.ft.com)
Robey Warshaw partners share 40mn profit (www.ft.com)
America’s current account woes (www.ft.com)
Struggling vintage champagne market begins to fizz again (www.ft.com)
The case for denial (www.ft.com)
How a failed baseball player and ex-stock broker became a major arms dealer (www.ft.com)
Brazil commits to rapid energy roadmap deadline for key ministries (www.ft.com)
Trump fails to put Epstein behind him with partial release of files (www.ft.com)
EU plan to relax petrol car ban dismissed by Fiat maker (www.ft.com)
Here comes the sun: light amid the UK gloom (www.ft.com)
Can a sacramental winery in New York get its groove back? (www.ft.com)
Pitting Nimbys against Yimbys is a bad idea (www.ft.com)
Have we reached a tipping point on public debt? (www.ft.com)
The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are getting a glow up (www.ft.com)
Learning Yoruba with my daughter (www.ft.com)
The money lessons we wish we’d been taught at school (www.ft.com)
Australia’s biggest pension fund to cut global stocks allocation on AI concerns (www.ft.com)
What to know about the new Epstein files release (www.ft.com)
Australia confronts grief and discord in wake of Bondi Beach massacre (www.ft.com)
Congress’ healthcare fight carries big consequences (www.ft.com)
Secretary of state defends Trump’s foreign policy (www.ft.com)
Delaware high court reinstates Musk’s 56bn Tesla pay package (www.ft.com)
US justice department releases thousands of Epstein files (www.ft.com)
US Christmas tree growers boosted by Trump tariffs (www.ft.com)
Roomba rival bets on AI to clean up market for robot vacuum cleaners (www.ft.com)
Quizmas special: Political Fix’s 2025 nerd-out! (www.ft.com)
UK rules out using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine (www.ft.com)
Don’t believe the fake gloom about London (www.ft.com)
The SEC is heading into dangerous territory (www.ft.com)
Christmas trimming (www.ft.com)
Brussels sprouts buck trend for rising Christmas food prices (www.ft.com)
Jamieri, a Georgian treasure trove in Brooklyn (www.ft.com)
London St Pancras revamp aims to cut Eurostar waiting time to 15 minutes (www.ft.com)
It’s beginning to look a lot like holiday job season (www.ft.com)
How Ford’s bet on an electric ‘truck of the future’ led to a 19.5bn writedown (www.ft.com)
Europe risks a self-fulfilling prophecy over the threat from Russia (www.ft.com)
UK electoral commission slams delays to local elections (www.ft.com)
US to release ‘several hundred thousand’ Epstein files on Friday (www.ft.com)
Satellite images track Trump’s squeeze on Venezuela (www.ft.com)
Prediction markets barely make money; sportsbooks make money (www.ft.com)
The rest of the west is our only bet (www.ft.com)
Putin claims Ukraine is ‘on the retreat’ (www.ft.com)
Which genius from history would have been the best investor? (www.ft.com)
Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘We’re on the cusp of something really exciting’ (www.ft.com)
Lululemon should roll out the red yoga mat for Elliott (www.ft.com)
Ukraine’s wartime battery boom (www.ft.com)
ECB warns banks against excessive use of risk-transfer deals (www.ft.com)
Europe shows its commitment to Ukraine — but not unequivocally (www.ft.com)
Inflation risk is still under-appreciated by investors (www.ft.com)
BoE caution will not prevent further loosening in 2026 (www.ft.com)
France will not agree budget by year-end, says prime minister (www.ft.com)
China blamed for UK government cyber attack (www.ft.com)
Germany’s multiyear recession will only fade slowly in 2026, Bundesbank warns (www.ft.com)
Billionaire backs shake-up at FDA: ex-Enron trader upends drug policy (www.ft.com)
Unpopular Labour is running out of opportunities to change its fate (www.ft.com)
BoJ delivers a hawkish rate increase (www.ft.com)
How Merz’s summit plan on Russian assets backfired (www.ft.com)
UK retail sales drop unexpectedly as economy struggles (www.ft.com)
Inflation: little to trust (www.ft.com)
EU turns to joint debt for Ukraine after botching Russian asset loan (www.ft.com)
Sony buys Snoopy (www.ft.com)
Bumper Christmas for air travel as 300mn take to the skies (www.ft.com)
Winter storms flood Gaza as population remains stuck in tents (www.ft.com)
Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics (www.ft.com)
Behemoth bills are causing hold-ups in the Lords (www.ft.com)
America Inc’s new boardroom trend: the chief exiting officer (www.ft.com)
Tether-owned firm sells crypto miner to companies run by its founder (www.ft.com)
Prediction markets and the casino mentality of 2025 (www.ft.com)
The Brexit implementation fiasco (www.ft.com)
India’s bid to rival the Chinese navy (www.ft.com)
Japan raises interest rates to highest level in 30 years (www.ft.com)
Three numbers that matter (www.ft.com)
EU to give 90bn loan to Ukraine (www.ft.com)
India’s parliament clears full foreign ownership in insurance (www.ft.com)
China boosts AI chip output by upgrading older ASML machines (www.ft.com)
TikTok signs deal to create US joint venture (www.ft.com)
Over-50s should work for longer to ease pressures of ageing society, say Lords (www.ft.com)
Flawed inflation data dashes Trump’s hopes of a quick affordability victory (www.ft.com)
Brussels delays signing of EU-Mercosur trade deal until January (www.ft.com)
Nike shares tumble as weak China sales dent faith in turnaround (www.ft.com)
Marijuana stocks tumble as Trump reclassifies drug but fails to legalise it (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: US approves 11bn arms package for Taiwan (www.ft.com)
Trump to be added to name of Washington’s Kennedy Center (www.ft.com)
Jefferies’ 2025 in review (www.ft.com)
Farage avoids police probe into election spending (www.ft.com)
Trump family deal with fusion energy firm adds to complicated UK-US ties (www.ft.com)
Latin America swings to the right (www.ft.com)
French culture minister under investigation for corruption (www.ft.com)
US regulator loosens some compliance burdens for Citigroup (www.ft.com)
Trump is on to something: finance and fusion have much in common (www.ft.com)
Christian Turner to be new UK ambassador to US (www.ft.com)
2.5bn Leeds tram project delayed following review (www.ft.com)
Bill Gates and Sergey Brin among newly released Epstein photos (www.ft.com)
Motability boss handed bumper pay rise (www.ft.com)
Ukraine seals restructuring of controversial growth-linked debt (www.ft.com)
A change of approach to the youth unemployment problem (www.ft.com)
Lawyers Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader set to merge in record 3.6bn deal (www.ft.com)
Local elections at risk of delay for millions across England (www.ft.com)
Lenders set to lower mortgage rates in early 2026 (www.ft.com)
All trials of UK’s Ajax armoured vehicles paused after another soldier injured (www.ft.com)
Drop in CPI reduces Fed dilemma on rates (www.ft.com)
Bill Ackman strikes 2bn deal for insurer in bid to build ‘modern Berkshire Hathaway’ (www.ft.com)
Netanyahu’s plan to take charge of October 7 panel sparks anger (www.ft.com)
Former Tory donor hit with UK sanctions over alleged Russian energy role (www.ft.com)
The hard politics of climate overshoot (www.ft.com)
Trump uses rare primetime address to defend his economic record (www.ft.com)
ECB holds rates at 2% with broadly neutral guidance (www.ft.com)
US inflation unexpectedly falls to 2.7% (www.ft.com)
ECB holds interest rates at 2% (www.ft.com)
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up (www.ft.com)
EU agrees rules to boost retail investment in capital markets (www.ft.com)
BoE cuts rates with relatively dovish guidance (www.ft.com)
Monetary Policy Radar preview: the BoJ will raise rates again (www.ft.com)
Food production no longer profitable for English farms, says review (www.ft.com)
BoE cuts rates by quarter point to 3.75% (www.ft.com)
Trump media agrees 6bn merger deal with Google-backed fusion energy company (www.ft.com)
The myth of the imminent Conservative revival (www.ft.com)
The rise of two wests threatens the democratic model (www.ft.com)
US activist targets Premier Inn owner Whitbread (www.ft.com)
The EU’s economic security blanket is patchy and thin (www.ft.com)
Europe’s second-class citizens (www.ft.com)
Netanyahu approves 35bn Israel-Egypt gas deal (www.ft.com)
Meta’s LeCun targets 3bn valuation for new AI start-up (www.ft.com)
Expect more militant industrial relations under new Unison leader (www.ft.com)
Could revealing Rishi Sunak’s cowboy boots ruin Brex-Tex relations? (www.ft.com)
EU leaders vow to agree funding for Ukraine (www.ft.com)
Two views of AI and Big Tech (www.ft.com)
New York hedge fund approached by Warner shareholder to buy CNN (www.ft.com)
Can Venezuela’s Maduro survive Trump’s oil blockade? (www.ft.com)
US approves 11bn arms sale to Taiwan (www.ft.com)
Zelenskyy to confront De Wever in stand-off over Russian assets loan (www.ft.com)
Donald Trump defends record on economy in combative White House address (www.ft.com)
Australia to tighten hate speech laws after Bondi attack (www.ft.com)
UK to water down regulations for financial benchmarks (www.ft.com)
Private equity’s ‘steady eddy’ gets rocked (www.ft.com)
Canada defends US exemption from global minimum tax deal (www.ft.com)
Scrapping juries would save less than 10% of court time, according to research (www.ft.com)
Elliott gears up for Barnes & Noble and Waterstones listing (www.ft.com)
Auditors raise red flags at public body run by Ben Houchen (www.ft.com)
How a Swiss compromise could save UBS billions (www.ft.com)
Carmakers sour on EU’s ‘disastrous’ petrol engine rule changes (www.ft.com)
Berlin launches ‘Germany Fund’ to lure private equity investors (www.ft.com)
Putin’s retaliation threat over frozen assets rattles EU capitals (www.ft.com)
A Noma graduate is reimagining the French canon in Paris (www.ft.com)
The argument Iranians have in private (www.ft.com)
Oilfield service companies pivot to data centres as drilling market slows (www.ft.com)
The coming battle over the EU’s budget shake-up (www.ft.com)
Inside the ‘industrial scale’ Trump pardon machine (www.ft.com)
India’s central bank governor cheers ‘goldilocks’ economy (www.ft.com)
Trump takes aim at South Africa (www.ft.com)
Japan’s 580bn hidden asset? In the back of the cupboard (www.ft.com)
South Korea’s market moonshot is a model for other economies (www.ft.com)
BP picks Woodside boss Meg O’Neill as new chief executive (www.ft.com)
Amazon overhauls AI team as chief declares an ‘inflection point’ (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Oracle’s 10bn Michigan data centre dealt a setback (www.ft.com)
Who matters in the battle for Warner Bros? (www.ft.com)
iRobot CEO says previous management was ‘in denial’ over group’s troubles (www.ft.com)
Lula threatens to walk away from EU-Mercosur trade deal (www.ft.com)
Elon Musk makes an unhelpful cameo in Warner Bros buyout (www.ft.com)
Jimmy Lai’s conviction is ominous for Hong Kong (www.ft.com)
US Congress repeals Syria ‘Caesar’ sanctions (www.ft.com)
Zaslav pay, banker fees and mis-steps: inside Paramount’s hostile bid for WBD (www.ft.com)
Wealthy areas get new powers to raise council tax in funding shake-up (www.ft.com)
US defence act passes in rebuke to Trump administration’s stance on Europe (www.ft.com)
US tech stocks slide as Oracle data centre setback reignites AI concerns (www.ft.com)
Slowing inflation fuels concerns about a cooling UK economy (www.ft.com)
Scientists shed new light on Alzheimer’s warning signs (www.ft.com)
Fed governor Waller says rates could be cut by as much as a full point (www.ft.com)
Varun Chandra out of running for UK ambassador to Washington (www.ft.com)
UK should relax salary requirements for skilled worker visas, advisers say (www.ft.com)
KKR nears Viridor stake sale to Equitix (www.ft.com)
UK to shift more research funding into AI and video games (www.ft.com)
The AfD’s love-in with Maga (www.ft.com)
When business and democracy don’t mix (www.ft.com)
Putin predicts European ‘swine’ backing Ukraine will lose power (www.ft.com)
Oracle’s 10bn Michigan data centre in limbo after Blue Owl funding talks stall (www.ft.com)
US prosecutors announce criminal charges against former Tricolor executives (www.ft.com)
Starmer moves to transfer 2.5bn from Abramovich’s Chelsea FC sale to Ukraine (www.ft.com)
Warner Bros board urges investors to reject Paramount’s ‘inferior’ 108bn bid (www.ft.com)
South Africa arrests Kenyans working at US-run Afrikaner ‘refugee’ centre (www.ft.com)
Investment banks expect UK borrowing costs to fall further in 2026 (www.ft.com)
Former EU lawmakers lose case against pension cuts (www.ft.com)
London property prices fall at fastest pace in nearly 2 years (www.ft.com)
Leftwinger wins race to lead Britain’s largest trade union (www.ft.com)
Trump’s immigration raids raise thorny legal issues for Home Depot (www.ft.com)
EU admits carbon border tax ‘too clunky’ as it closes loopholes (www.ft.com)
Fei-Fei Li of World Labs: AI is incomplete without spatial intelligence (www.ft.com)
Interest rates explain UK’s high turnover of prime ministers (www.ft.com)
Britain to pay 570mn to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme (www.ft.com)
Bondi Beach massacre renews fears of Isis-inspired attacks (www.ft.com)
Slowing UK inflation in November clears last hurdle for December cut (www.ft.com)
UK inflation falls more than expected to 3.2% in November (www.ft.com)
The economy is fine and everyone hates it (www.ft.com)
German fintech hits 12.5bn valuation in deal backed by Peter Thiel (www.ft.com)
Monzo shareholders push to oust chair in revolt over CEO’s exit (www.ft.com)
Leaders brace for ‘three-shirt’ summit to push through Ukraine loan (www.ft.com)
JPMorgan swaps cash for Treasuries (www.ft.com)
The Shell-BP deal that wasn’t (www.ft.com)
Starmer pushes back on delayed defence spending plan (www.ft.com)
The worried investor’s guide to 2026 (www.ft.com)
UK will review EV sales targets next year (www.ft.com)
Giorgia Meloni’s European moment comes with a price (www.ft.com)
When giving to charity engage your brain, as well as your heart (www.ft.com)
Germany set to approve 50bn in military purchases (www.ft.com)
What happens if AI data centres slip the ‘surly bonds of earth’? (www.ft.com)
Dissent is vital at the Fed (www.ft.com)
Japan bids farewell to pandas as row with China deepens (www.ft.com)
The hypocrisy of US complaints over X fine (www.ft.com)
How can I ensure my ex-wife brings my children home? (www.ft.com)
Polish broadcaster plans Maga-backed international TV channel (www.ft.com)
Toilets for all — the architects transforming London’s public loos (www.ft.com)
US mineral investors seek to counter China with ‘Liberty Corridor’ in Africa (www.ft.com)
‘He would turn us against him’: Trump’s tariff reductions alienate ranchers (www.ft.com)
JPMorgan pulls 350bn from Fed to buy up Treasuries (www.ft.com)
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI (www.ft.com)
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Power, plutocracy and political economy (www.ft.com)
Amazon in talks to invest more than 10bn in OpenAI (www.ft.com)
Investors pile into Venezuelan debt in regime change bet (www.ft.com)
Vance touts Trump’s economy to shift message on high costs (www.ft.com)
India’s central bank governor signals rates to stay low for ‘long period’ (www.ft.com)
Trump orders blockade on sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela (www.ft.com)
Waymo in talks to raise funds at 100bn valuation (www.ft.com)
UK driving tests agency will not hit key waiting time target until 2027 (www.ft.com)
UK backs 150mn package for Ineos’s Grangemouth chemical plant (www.ft.com)
UK plans to remove curbs on litigation funders to broaden access to justice (www.ft.com)
Andersen valued at 1.75bn in IPO for consulting spin-off of Enron auditor (www.ft.com)
Trump expands US entry ban to include Palestinians and Syrians (www.ft.com)
Euroclear put on notice about possible rating downgrade (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Warner Bros to reject 108bn Paramount hostile offer (www.ft.com)
China property stocks still can’t find a floor (www.ft.com)
Warner Bros to rebuff 108bn Paramount hostile offer (www.ft.com)
Fifa offers cheaper World Cup tickets in response to outcry (www.ft.com)
UK set to rejoin EU’s flagship student exchange programme (www.ft.com)
Medical supply group Medline could raise up to 7bn in public offering (www.ft.com)
Macron: We urgently need to rebalance EU-China relations (www.ft.com)
UK government surveilled housing industry without authorisation, says watchdog (www.ft.com)
Washington threatens European groups over EU’s treatment of US tech giants (www.ft.com)
Starmer under pressure to pick next UK envoy to US after tech deal paused (www.ft.com)
Citadel chief Ken Griffin says White House must ‘distance’ itself from Fed (www.ft.com)
Trump has ‘alcoholic personality’ says chief of staff in tell-all interview (www.ft.com)
OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion (www.ft.com)
Give extra tax breaks to arts donations outside London, says review (www.ft.com)
Morrison’s pluck makes for a win despite chicken tax loss (www.ft.com)
UK government’s flagship workers’ rights legislation clears House of Lords (www.ft.com)
Betting on prediction markets has exploded over past two years (www.ft.com)