UK watchdog stops short of imposing EU-style rules on Apple and Google (www.ft.com)
Ed Miliband tells cabinet colleagues to ‘just get on’ after botched attempt to oust Keir Starmer (www.ft.com)
Bice, the Milanese fashion canteen turning 100 (www.ft.com)
Manufacturers pivot from EV batteries to storage as AI boom drives demand (www.ft.com)
Hyundai ‘ready to fight’ Chinese rivals in Europe (www.ft.com)
Pricing the known unknowns from Japan’s election landslide (www.ft.com)
Starmer’s route to recovery (www.ft.com)
No, Jeffrey Epstein didn’t trigger the 2008 subprime meltdown (www.ft.com)
Bangladesh secures tariff-free rate on some clothes sales to US (www.ft.com)
Shares in Gucci-owner Kering jump after sales fall less than feared (www.ft.com)
BT replaces Openreach boss in latest top-level reshuffle (www.ft.com)
BP suspends share buyback plan (www.ft.com)
UK awards 189 revenue-guarantee contracts for wind and solar projects (www.ft.com)
Indonesia prepares to deploy thousands of troops to Gaza (www.ft.com)
Fix the EU economy with ‘protection, not protectionism’, says Macron (www.ft.com)
EU-US tensions over Greenland and tech are far from over, says Macron (www.ft.com)
Why does Sanae Takaichi want to change Japan’s constitution? (www.ft.com)
Standard Chartered finance chief leaves for Apollo (www.ft.com)
Can Elon Musk really launch data centres into space? (www.ft.com)
Novo Nordisk hits back at copycat drugs (www.ft.com)
Morgan Stanley’s Musk whisperer returns (www.ft.com)
Carlyle’s flagship buyout funds gain after flurry of portfolio IPOs (www.ft.com)
Is this the way the world ends? (www.ft.com)
EU must reform ‘obsolete’ emissions trading system, warns BASF boss (www.ft.com)
Britain is falling behind in the European space race (www.ft.com)
Russian army casualties in Ukraine surge (www.ft.com)
Timing of England’s school holidays is ‘pretty bizarre’, says Ofsted head (www.ft.com)
Investors sour on listed credit funds over AI hit to software sector (www.ft.com)
How Santander took a 12bn gamble on cracking the US (www.ft.com)
‘Where are the police?’: Israel’s Arab towns gripped by mafia violence (www.ft.com)
Chinese luxury group Icicle plots IPO as non-western labels shine (www.ft.com)
Where to go on dates in New York City (www.ft.com)
What fast food’s downturn says about the US economy (www.ft.com)
FTSE Russell postpones review of Indonesian stocks (www.ft.com)
Did India get a good deal? (www.ft.com)
China steps up dangerous air encounters near Taiwan (www.ft.com)
Rising share of UK public in favour of tax and spending cuts (www.ft.com)
UK shoppers held out for January sales, data shows (www.ft.com)
Epstein paid Les Wexner 100mn after retail billionaire accused him of theft (www.ft.com)
US plans Big Tech carve-out from next wave of chip tariffs (www.ft.com)
Starmer stumbles on as rivals balk at killer blow (www.ft.com)
US lawmakers call on Howard Lutnick to step down over ties to Epstein (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Sanae Takaichi targets changes to Japan’s constitution after election landslide (www.ft.com)
Starmer defies call to quit as UK prime minister (www.ft.com)
Misconduct in public office: the offence that rarely ensnares politicians (www.ft.com)
Japan’s election paves the way for faster tightening (www.ft.com)
English councils to get at least 5bn to cover debt from special-needs education (www.ft.com)
Takaichi’s historic opportunity in Japan (www.ft.com)
Novo Nordisk sues Hims & Hers over copycat weight-loss drugs (www.ft.com)
Far-right Alternative for Germany embroiled in nepotism scandal (www.ft.com)
The changing physics of the Arctic are the real defence threat (www.ft.com)
Michael Grimes returns to Morgan Stanley after Trump administration stint (www.ft.com)
Keir Starmer’s inconvenient truth (www.ft.com)
Spring Statement accessed more times than thought after OBR leak, review will say (www.ft.com)
Cuba runs out of jet fuel as Trump squeezes oil supplies (www.ft.com)
Where Baghdad’s moneyed elite like to hang out (www.ft.com)
Alphabet lines up 100-year sterling bond sale (www.ft.com)
Here comes the great American bitcoin-mining-to-AI pivot (www.ft.com)
Warner streaming boss defends HBO Max UK launch ahead of Netflix takeover (www.ft.com)
After Takaichi sweeps Japan’s election, watch these two sectors (www.ft.com)
Will jobs and prices leave the Fed room to cut? (www.ft.com)
America must follow China in treating data as an asset (www.ft.com)
Are corporate boards missing in action? (www.ft.com)
Ex-General Atlantic executive raises 1bn fund for ‘hypergrowth’ companies (www.ft.com)
Shipping giants have learned the right lessons from past storms (www.ft.com)
French central bank governor to step down early (www.ft.com)
Scottish Labour leader to call for Starmer to step down (www.ft.com)
Police look into links between Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (www.ft.com)
A post-Trump restoration is still possible (www.ft.com)
How CEOs are grappling with the geopolitics of trade (www.ft.com)
Apollo earnings beat expectations as assets hit new high of 938bn (www.ft.com)
Starmer’s communications chief quits as pressure grows on PM (www.ft.com)
Takaichi targets changes to Japan’s constitution after landslide election win (www.ft.com)
There’s no such thing as too many rings (www.ft.com)
What went wrong with the Starmer-McSweeney approach? (www.ft.com)
Israeli security cabinet expands powers in occupied West Bank (www.ft.com)
Pound and gilts under pressure as leadership crisis threatens Starmer (www.ft.com)
Pick-up in Japan wage growth paves way for near-term rate increase (www.ft.com)
‘Exactly what Africa needs’ (www.ft.com)
Advent and FedEx lead 7.8bn takeover of parcel company InPost (www.ft.com)
A chilly January in the job market (www.ft.com)
Chinese companies dominate investments in Singapore (www.ft.com)
Pressure mounts on Starmer even as top aid resigns (www.ft.com)
EU failing to implement economic fixes as single market withers (www.ft.com)
The fund giant selling the dollar (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Starmer’s premiership hangs in the balance (www.ft.com)
‘Devastated and exhausted’: Washington Post looks to life after Will Lewis (www.ft.com)
US embassy in London denies visas to executives over minor offences (www.ft.com)
Brussels to revive campaign for bank deposit guarantee scheme (www.ft.com)
European alternatives to Visa and Mastercard ‘urgently’ needed, says banking chief (www.ft.com)
Three ways European banks are finding their mojo (www.ft.com)
Bash All Day, Buy All Night (www.ft.com)
‘It feels like a betrayal.’ Germany’s painful estrangement from the US (www.ft.com)
Millions of women in England only have access to one round of IVF on NHS (www.ft.com)
Why GM is making a ‘risky’ bet on an unproven battery technology (www.ft.com)
Japan LLC has been trading its way out of a fiscal hole (www.ft.com)
FT correspondents and writers’ top romantic spots across the globe (www.ft.com)
Thai markets rally on conservative election victory (www.ft.com)
‘They want their pound of flesh’: why bank bosses are pushing strict return-to-office mandates (www.ft.com)
Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison (www.ft.com)
Japanese stocks soar to record after Takaichi landslide election win (www.ft.com)
UK universities told to step up defences against intimidation by China (www.ft.com)
Keir Starmer faces crunch week in battle to hold on to power (www.ft.com)
Iran arrests leading reformist politicians (www.ft.com)
Big Tech groups race to fund unprecedented 660bn AI spending spree (www.ft.com)
Asia’s democratic differences under the spotlight (www.ft.com)
Thai ruling conservatives take early lead in snap general election (www.ft.com)
Europe is not as weak as it acts (www.ft.com)
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff (www.ft.com)
No easy end to easy money (www.ft.com)
Lindsey Vonn crashes out in Winter Olympics downhill ski race (www.ft.com)
Meloni hits out at ‘enemies of Italy’ after rail sabotage and Olympic protests (www.ft.com)
The downside of staving off recessions (www.ft.com)
Liberal Democratic Party on course for large majority in Japan election (www.ft.com)
The end of nuclear arms control (www.ft.com)
Carney’s ‘art of the deal’: Canada leverages subs contract for auto investment (www.ft.com)
Economists reject Kevin Warsh’s claim that AI boom will enable rate cuts (www.ft.com)
Mandelson’s payout after being sacked as ambassador to be reviewed (www.ft.com)
World’s priciest hotels charge record prices in defiance of luxury slowdown (www.ft.com)
How to shut down a business (www.ft.com)
Banks push for speedy European IPOs to cut market risk (www.ft.com)
Disney’s magic might find a home in Big Tech’s kingdom (www.ft.com)
Bitcoin is still about 69,000 too high (www.ft.com)
Italian olive oil farmers say flood of imports is causing price collapse (www.ft.com)
Can Europe get kids off social media? (www.ft.com)
Outgunned and overrun: Nigeria struggles to contain surge in militant violence (www.ft.com)
After Maduro: Venezuela learns to live without its strongman (www.ft.com)
UK’s Argus lobbied Moscow over rules threatening its Russia business (www.ft.com)
Ease fiscal curbs on borrowing for development schemes, gilt investors urge Reeves (www.ft.com)
Almost a fifth of FTSE 100 CEOs live outside the UK (www.ft.com)
India embraces free(er) trade (www.ft.com)
China’s heavy industry starts long march from rust belt to sunshine (www.ft.com)
Will Lewis steps down as Washington Post publisher after job cuts (www.ft.com)
Japan goes to the polls after shortest campaign in postwar era (www.ft.com)
Hims & Hers abandons copycat weight-loss drug in face of FDA probe (www.ft.com)
Creditors accuse Optimum of ‘weaponising’ antitrust laws to avoid bankruptcy (www.ft.com)
How the house of Rothschild became entangled with Epstein (www.ft.com)
Epstein propelled investment career of UK power broker Ian Osborne (www.ft.com)
Can the US crack the formula for ending bank runs? (www.ft.com)
Buy European and the French paradox (www.ft.com)
A diverging Magnificent Seven (www.ft.com)
Trump is pushing to end war in Ukraine by June, Zelenskyy says (www.ft.com)
Retail investors pull money from UK equity funds for tenth year in row (www.ft.com)
‘Hermès orange’ iPhone sparks Apple comeback in China (www.ft.com)
Mandelson and the two elites (www.ft.com)
US and India reach interim trade deal (www.ft.com)
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)