Mexico’s extortion crisis casts a shadow over Super Bowl avocados (www.ft.com)
Tech wreck signals a market reset (www.ft.com)
Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson (www.ft.com)
The Trevi Fountain is not just a cultural vending machine (www.ft.com)
Putin isn’t really winning. Europe needs to make that clear (www.ft.com)
How the NFL became America’s true national pastime (www.ft.com)
Farmer J founder: ‘There are easier ways to make money than becoming an entrepreneur’ (www.ft.com)
How easy is it for Brits to retire to mainland Europe? (www.ft.com)
The three-way race for Brazil’s rare earths heats up (www.ft.com)
Milei clashes with Argentina’s powerful unions over labour reform (www.ft.com)
AI disrupting traditional careers may not be bad for children (www.ft.com)
Broadcasters prepare for 850 hours of winter sports action (www.ft.com)
Winter Games 2026: the athletes to watch (www.ft.com)
Climate change hastens debate on future form of Winter Olympics (www.ft.com)
Italy targets 19 medals but injury woes hit home team (www.ft.com)
Eve Muirhead: Olympian turned Team GB manager (www.ft.com)
Scotland faces its own revolt on the right (www.ft.com)
US announces crackdown on copycat weight-loss drugs (www.ft.com)
US launches antitrust review of 83bn Netflix deal for Warner Bros (www.ft.com)
China warns US arms sales to Taiwan could threaten Trump visit (www.ft.com)
Anthropic’s breakout moment: how Claude cracked AI for business (www.ft.com)
DP World boss emailed Epstein about sexual experiences (www.ft.com)
Starmer camp warns leadership challenge risks economic chaos (www.ft.com)
Trump removes racist post about Obamas after fierce backlash (www.ft.com)
Hesitation from leadership rivals keeps Starmer in Downing Street for now (www.ft.com)
Prediction markets’ warp-speed growth is their biggest risk (www.ft.com)
Canada opens consulate in Greenland in show of support for Arctic island (www.ft.com)
The disappointing randomness of currency hegemony (www.ft.com)
Keir Starmer’s weakening grip on power (www.ft.com)
Warsh studies (www.ft.com)
Counting the cost of money in politics (www.ft.com)
French farming posts first trade deficit in nearly a decade (www.ft.com)
Funding the Muskverse will require ever more audacious moves (www.ft.com)
The UK student loan system — and its danger for Labour (www.ft.com)
US tech stocks rebound despite Amazon plunge (www.ft.com)
EU pushes for full ban on services tied to Russia’s oil trade (www.ft.com)
Japan’s KDDI finds up to 1.5bn in fictitious revenues (www.ft.com)
Mandelson, money - and the risk to the prime minister (www.ft.com)
Bezos’s calculated vandalism of the Washington Post (www.ft.com)
Kalshi chief Tarek Mansour: ‘We’re pricing the future’ (www.ft.com)
Islamabad mosque bombing kills more than 30 people (www.ft.com)
Neighbours of proposed Chinese ‘mega’ embassy seek judicial review (www.ft.com)
After the fall: San Francisco is on the upswing (www.ft.com)
Russian military intelligence official shot in Moscow (www.ft.com)
Starmer government prepares to hand over Mandelson files for scrutiny (www.ft.com)
Bitcoin investor’s company helped draft law to enable libertarian Caribbean development (www.ft.com)
EU warns TikTok over addictive feeds and risks to children (www.ft.com)
Bezos gutted the Washington Post. Can he revive it? (www.ft.com)
Do smart people eat better? (www.ft.com)
Why Al Carns is gaining ground as MPs mull Starmer’s replacement (www.ft.com)
In bed with Leonard Baby (www.ft.com)
Stellantis shares plunge after taking 22bn charge on EV push (www.ft.com)
US and Iran to start nuclear talks in Oman (www.ft.com)
Privatising the Fed’s balance sheet (www.ft.com)
European businesses demand EU put competitiveness talk into action (www.ft.com)
Moody’s cuts Indonesia’s credit outlook to ‘negative’ (www.ft.com)
Toyota replaces chief executive (www.ft.com)
KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings (www.ft.com)
Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s social Ponzi scheme (www.ft.com)
What an economist eats for lunch (in 2026), with Tyler Cowen (www.ft.com)
A crunchy week for chipmakers (www.ft.com)
Trump’s policies dent international travel to US in blow to tourism sector (www.ft.com)
Climate change is reshaping the Winter Olympic Games (www.ft.com)
Team GB embraces snow sport talent as it chases record Winter Olympics haul (www.ft.com)
Trump and the normalisation of deviance (www.ft.com)
The perilous age of quantum politics (www.ft.com)
Why private equity won’t rescue the UK’s housebuilding efforts (www.ft.com)
The multimillion dollar business of sports ceremonies (www.ft.com)
The fake Saudi prince who fooled Lebanon’s elite (www.ft.com)
Defiance inside China’s biggest gold market (www.ft.com)
It’s not just a tech sell-off (www.ft.com)
Big Tech’s ‘breathtaking’ 660bn spending spree reignites AI bubble fears (www.ft.com)
Takaichi taps Japan’s anxiety over foreigners (www.ft.com)
India''s stock market is failing to match growth in economy (www.ft.com)
US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe (www.ft.com)
White House to launch TrumpRx as drug companies warn of sales hit (www.ft.com)
Puma’s new Chinese backer will give Nike a run for its money (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Donald Trump endorses Japan’s Sanae Takaichi ahead of election (www.ft.com)
Amazon stock slumps as it prepares 200bn AI spending blitz (www.ft.com)
Prediction market Kalshi seeks US approval to offer margin trades (www.ft.com)
Labour Together paid researchers to identify source of leaks to journalists (www.ft.com)
Trump endorses Japan’s Sanae Takaichi ahead of general election (www.ft.com)
Starmer on borrowed time as MPs weigh up how to mount leadership challenge (www.ft.com)
Trump calls for new nuclear treaty with Russia as New Start expires (www.ft.com)
Hodlers: an apology for the apology (www.ft.com)
Andrew advocated for Epstein during Queen Elizabeth’s visit to UAE (www.ft.com)
Millions more UK workers to be hit by Reeves’ salary sacrifice changes (www.ft.com)
Trump rows back criticism of UK’s Chagos deal (www.ft.com)
Anthropic launches new Claude model as AI fears rattle markets (www.ft.com)
US and Russian militaries to resume high-level talks after four years (www.ft.com)
Westminster refit could hit 40bn if MPs do not relocate (www.ft.com)
Venezuelan business looks to post-Maduro opportunities (www.ft.com)
Surviving Kyiv’s blackout winter (www.ft.com)
European Commission sued over landmark lithium project in Portugal (www.ft.com)
AI agents are prompting human boom scrolling (www.ft.com)
UK to scrap more than 250mn in planned physics project funding (www.ft.com)
US labour demand cools faster than expected in December (www.ft.com)
As software sinks, US oil majors are regaining their lustre (www.ft.com)
US tech rout enters third day as Alphabet shares sink (www.ft.com)
Rio Tinto and Glencore abandon 260bn merger plan (www.ft.com)
Novo Nordisk rival Hims & Hers launches cheaper weight-loss pill (www.ft.com)
Barrick to pursue IPO of North American gold-mining business (www.ft.com)
AI venture Fundamental secures 1.2bn valuation and Amazon deal (www.ft.com)
Bitcoin falls below 70,000 to wipe out ‘Trump rally’ (www.ft.com)
Cuba hit by blackouts as threat of Trump oil blockade bites (www.ft.com)
Top Republican senator criticises probe into Jay Powell (www.ft.com)
US job cuts surge to highest January total since 2009 (www.ft.com)
ECB holds interest rates at 2% (www.ft.com)
Israel charges troops with smuggling iPhones and cigarettes into Gaza (www.ft.com)
ECB holds rates and confirms inflation on track (www.ft.com)
Bank of England holds rate but sets up earlier cut (www.ft.com)
Starmer apologises to victims of Epstein (www.ft.com)
Mandelson sought help from Epstein on setting up advisory firm (www.ft.com)
Bank of England holds rates steady at 3.75% in knife-edge vote (www.ft.com)
Russia-linked hackers target Winter Olympics in Italy (www.ft.com)
Mandelson and the money that never sleeps (www.ft.com)
Starmer apologises to Epstein victims (www.ft.com)
Private credit group Ares defies market jitters with record inflows (www.ft.com)
Bed down in London’s finest quilt emporium (www.ft.com)
Argentina’s homegrown companies lead oil and gas boom (www.ft.com)
Trump is Europe’s best enemy yet (www.ft.com)
Bringing euros to a weaponised currency fight (www.ft.com)
Syria courts energy majors as it takes control of oilfields (www.ft.com)
Maersk fears first loss in a decade after rise in container shipping capacity (www.ft.com)
BT stems customer losses as broadband competition abates (www.ft.com)
The Peninsula Hong Kong: heritage minus the hush (www.ft.com)
Gilts and sterling hit by Starmer leadership speculation (www.ft.com)
Syngenta prepares to revive plans for IPO in Hong Kong (www.ft.com)
Every doomed prime minister has a moment — this is Starmer’s (www.ft.com)
Who are you calling PIGS now? (www.ft.com)
BNP Paribas lifts outlook for shareholder returns (www.ft.com)
Merz tours the Gulf as Germany seeks new trading partners (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Google to double AI spending to 185bn (www.ft.com)
Kevin Warsh will struggle to shrink Fed’s balance sheet (www.ft.com)
KKR to buy sports investment group Arctos for 1.4bn (www.ft.com)
Nearly 70 English councils say they face insolvency over special needs debt (www.ft.com)
There are good reasons to be cheerful about global trade (www.ft.com)
Why KKR is buying Arctos for 1.4bn (www.ft.com)
Canadian pension funds to exit UK’s biggest port operator in 10bn deal (www.ft.com)
Chinese provinces set lower growth targets for 2026 (www.ft.com)
China has seized Sony’s television halo (www.ft.com)
For Thailand’s election favourites, winning is the easy part (www.ft.com)
Companies House should probe origins of 200,000 gift to Reform, senior MP says (www.ft.com)
The controversial plan to set ‘Buy European’ rules (www.ft.com)
On South Africa’s ‘Wild Coast’, a former leper colony is reborn as a dreamy retreat (www.ft.com)
Where is AI showing up in the productivity data? (www.ft.com)
Kevin Warsh channels Alan Greenspan in AI productivity bet (www.ft.com)
Greener getaway: a sustainable wine retreat in Piedmont’s Gavi hills (www.ft.com)
The truth about the ‘blue-collar boom’ (www.ft.com)
Patrick Drahi shifts assets worth billions away from creditors (www.ft.com)
Inside the Russian Monopoly money network moving billions over borders (www.ft.com)
Can diplomacy avert a US-Iran war? (www.ft.com)
Top Goldman lawyer referenced Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Russians’ in email (www.ft.com)
Leapmotor: China’s no-frills EV maker aiming to become the next BYD (www.ft.com)
Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations (www.ft.com)
Rushing Brexit reset deal risks costing British farmers, Starmer told (www.ft.com)
Arm CEO says AI software sell-off a ‘micro-hysteria’ (www.ft.com)
Google adds 55bn to capex plans as it boosts AI spending (www.ft.com)
White House seeks critical minerals trade zone to curb China’s dominance (www.ft.com)
Epstein advised former Prince Andrew’s team on deal with Cantor Fitzgerald (www.ft.com)
Orbán orders courts to drop lawsuits against his government (www.ft.com)
Farage calls for EU to probe Mandelson’s time in Brussels (www.ft.com)
Kirkland lawyer sought use of Epstein helicopter after securing plea (www.ft.com)
Britain’s inequitable student loan system (www.ft.com)
First Brands founder pleads not guilty in company’s collapse (www.ft.com)
Not all software faces the same threat from AI (www.ft.com)
UK delays worker protections against ‘fire and rehire’ practices (www.ft.com)
US tech stocks hit with fresh wave of selling as chipmaker AMD tumbles (www.ft.com)
Top Senate Republican says Jay Powell has not ‘committed a crime’ (www.ft.com)
Trump and Xi discuss Ukraine and trade ahead of US state visit to Beijing (www.ft.com)
South Africa’s Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen steps down (www.ft.com)
Extreme views on the next US jobs report (www.ft.com)
Washington Post cuts about a third of staff to tackle ‘financial challenges’ (www.ft.com)
Ron DeSantis lashes out at ‘harmful’ AI in break with Trump’s White House (www.ft.com)
How Anthropic achieved AI coding breakthroughs — and rattled business (www.ft.com)
British companies set to gain access to 90bn EU loan for Ukraine (www.ft.com)
Trump’s border tsar announces withdrawal of 700 federal agents from Minneapolis (www.ft.com)
How the Bank of England can improve its decision-making (www.ft.com)
‘We made a lot of money working together’: Epstein’s in-house trader revealed (www.ft.com)
The angelic Meloni behind a fresco fiasco (www.ft.com)
Chile aims for 4% growth as copper booms (www.ft.com)
Reform councillor steps down as head of Kent’s cost-cutting drive (www.ft.com)
Are UK consumers about to rediscover their mojo? (www.ft.com)
Chinese trading firm Zhongcai nets 500mn from silver rout (www.ft.com)
China’s Chery to add fourth brand in UK expansion push (www.ft.com)
Britain can’t ignore Europe and China at the same time (www.ft.com)
Six Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary (www.ft.com)
Brookfield steps up succession planning with new asset management head (www.ft.com)
Uber hits 200mn users as investors fret over autonomous vehicles (www.ft.com)
Pressure grows on Starmer’s chief of staff over Mandelson ambassador appointment (www.ft.com)
How central should religious buildings be to new town planning? (www.ft.com)
‘Zero media experience’: new Disney chief’s battle to win over Wall Street (www.ft.com)
Ford in talks with Geely to use spare plant capacity and platform sharing (www.ft.com)
Eurozone inflation falls below target in January (www.ft.com)
US and Iran set to meet in Oman as Middle East tensions spiral (www.ft.com)
Indonesia’s richest man launches buybacks after worst stock rout in decades (www.ft.com)
Eurozone inflation falls to 1.7% in January (www.ft.com)
Senators push 70bn funding deal to support Trump’s critical minerals agenda (www.ft.com)
How to get England building more homes, not ‘bat tunnels’ (www.ft.com)
Starmer to release vetting documents for Mandelson’s US ambassador role (www.ft.com)
Carlsberg sales volumes hit after losing San Miguel UK licence (www.ft.com)
Novo Nordisk shares tumble 18% after sales warning (www.ft.com)
UBS profits rise on cost savings from Credit Suisse takeover (www.ft.com)
Mediobanca’s top private bankers decamp to Deutsche Bank (www.ft.com)
Ukraine peace talks resume even as Russia breaks temporary ceasefire (www.ft.com)
The central bank of Elon Musk (www.ft.com)
Banks seek out new buyers for Oracle data centre loans (www.ft.com)
Tether retreats from 20bn funding ambitions after investor pushback (www.ft.com)
Reading the runes on a Warsh Fed (www.ft.com)
‘The game is over’: Critics of Iranian regime seize on killings to push for change (www.ft.com)
Who killed the British flat? (www.ft.com)
Amundi says it will cut exposure to US over coming year (www.ft.com)
Number of late-night pharmacies in England plummets (www.ft.com)
Inside Rosewood Hong Kong, the world’s top-ranked hotel (www.ft.com)
The Regent Hong Kong: making waves again (www.ft.com)
Everyone and their mother is peddling an AI application (www.ft.com)
Russian spy spacecraft have intercepted Europe’s key satellites, officials believe (www.ft.com)
Hong Kong’s Island Shangri-La hotel: beyond the grand entrance (www.ft.com)
The far-right leader behind Erdoğan’s Kurdish peace plan (www.ft.com)
Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong: six decades of star power (www.ft.com)
01.ai''s Kai-Fu Lee: Why China will beat the US in consumer AI (www.ft.com)
Lanson Place Causeway Bay: gently glamorous, eminently practical (www.ft.com)
How US foreign aid cuts put garment worker rights on a precipice (www.ft.com)
Rare earths customers in rush to find alternatives to Chinese suppliers (www.ft.com)
How Africa Works by Joe Studwell — how to change the economic trajectory (www.ft.com)
Upper House Hong Kong: an elevated take on quiet luxury (www.ft.com)
From arms to orbit: Rheinmetall’s expansion unsettles rivals (www.ft.com)
The Muskverse enters a new era (www.ft.com)
How the Federal Reserve might change under Kevin Warsh (www.ft.com)
Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison sues Panama over canal ports ruling (www.ft.com)
Nvidia AI chip sales to China stalled by US security review (www.ft.com)
India hails Trump ‘deal’ but ducks discussing Russian oil ban (www.ft.com)
Can Sanae Takaichi govern Japan on star power alone? (www.ft.com)
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan dictator, killed in attack (www.ft.com)
NHS drugs deal with US to cost 1bn over next three years (www.ft.com)
Use more AI and video hearings to fix English courts system, report says (www.ft.com)
Citadel’s Ken Griffin says Trump White House has ‘enriched’ family members (www.ft.com)
Tribunal upholds UK regulator’s decision to fine Banque Havilland (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: US stocks slide on fears over new AI tools (www.ft.com)
Warsh faces Senate battle as lawmakers object to Trump’s attacks on Fed (www.ft.com)
Princeton University cuts expectation for endowment returns (www.ft.com)
Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Labs (www.ft.com)
US lawmakers pass bill to end partial government shutdown (www.ft.com)
Paul Weiss poaches top energy dealmakers in raid on Kirkland & Ellis (www.ft.com)
Birmingham City Council says it is no longer ‘bankrupt’ (www.ft.com)
Santander agrees 12.2bn deal to buy north-east US bank Webster Financial (www.ft.com)
French appeals court asked to uphold five-year electoral ban on Marine Le Pen (www.ft.com)
The new rules of finance, courtesy of Elon Musk (www.ft.com)
Iran’s people stand to lose whether or not talks succeed (www.ft.com)
Under Prabowo, Indonesia is veering off course (www.ft.com)
Former prince discussed with Jeffrey Epstein ways to get round investment rules (www.ft.com)
Far-right hardliner poses challenge to Italy’s Matteo Salvini (www.ft.com)
Tens of billions wiped off media and financial data groups after Anthropic AI launch (www.ft.com)
Iranian gunboats challenge US-flagged tanker in Strait of Hormuz (www.ft.com)
Scheming, joking, complaining: Moltbook’s AI agents are just like us (www.ft.com)
US-backed fund agrees to buy stake in Glencore’s DR Congo mines (www.ft.com)
The transatlantic relationship: can Europe go it alone? (www.ft.com)
Pfizer shares dip as vaccines continue to weigh on sales (www.ft.com)
Witkoff to meet Netanyahu ahead of new US-Iran talks (www.ft.com)
Mandelson quits House of Lords (www.ft.com)
Walmart’s market value hits 1tn (www.ft.com)
Taking a trip down memory lane (www.ft.com)
Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm tells clients his stake is nearly divested (www.ft.com)
Trump agrees to lower tariffs on India (www.ft.com)
Disney says parks chief Josh D’Amaro to succeed Bob Iger as CEO (www.ft.com)
French prosecutors raid Musk’s X offices in Paris (www.ft.com)
Mandelson lobbied against US bank reforms on behalf of Epstein and Staley (www.ft.com)
Monetary Policy Radar preview: ECB’s February meeting (www.ft.com)
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the construction industry (www.ft.com)
Scenarios for a Warsh Fed (www.ft.com)
The Epstein rot goes deep (www.ft.com)
PepsiCo to cut prices of Doritos and Lay’s as consumers rein in snacking (www.ft.com)
PayPal replaces CEO as board warns ‘pace of change’ not fast enough (www.ft.com)
Spain to ban social media access for under-16s (www.ft.com)
There’s a new ‘breakout star’ in the battery storage market (www.ft.com)
How Musk used SpaceX to rescue xAI and build a 1.25tn colossus (www.ft.com)
EU probes turbine maker Goldwind over Chinese subsidies (www.ft.com)
The challenges holding back UK’s push into low-carbon hydrogen (www.ft.com)
Siemens Energy calls for Trump policy stability as it commits 1bn to US (www.ft.com)
Mieko Kawakami: my job as a Tokyo ‘hostess’ shaped my latest novel (www.ft.com)
Russia hits Ukraine energy sites as Trump truce unravels (www.ft.com)
Mandelson row hits Starmer already at rock bottom (www.ft.com)
Indian markets rally on Trump trade deal (www.ft.com)
China bans Tesla-style hidden car door handles (www.ft.com)
The consumer sentiment puzzle deepens (www.ft.com)
EU wrestles with competitiveness impasse as industry languishes (www.ft.com)
The real European financial threat to America (www.ft.com)
Gold and silver prices rebound after sell-off (www.ft.com)
Australian central bank reverses course with interest rate increase (www.ft.com)
Silver’s runaway rally becomes ‘death trap’ for Reddit’s retail crowd (www.ft.com)
UBI fans must remember a job is about more than the money (www.ft.com)
No, the public is not irredeemably ignorant (www.ft.com)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT push triggers senior staff exits (www.ft.com)
Starmer seeks to push forward with delayed defence investment plan (www.ft.com)
Private jet sellers rattled by Trump threats on Canadian-made aircraft (www.ft.com)
Boss of private equity group Permira quits UK for Switzerland (www.ft.com)
Bolivia buries 20 years of socialism with ‘capitalism for all’ reforms (www.ft.com)
Backlash in Iran after state media mocks dead protesters (www.ft.com)
Arbitration for divorces in England and Wales doubles in 2 years (www.ft.com)
Demand for UK rental properties drops as buying becomes more affordable (www.ft.com)