Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers rescued from the Mediterranean Sea to Albania has suffered a serious setback after a Rome immigration court rejected the offshore detention of the first […]
Exclusive: Waymo engineering exec discusses self-driving AI models that will power the cars into new cities
When I posted on Instagram in May about my first ride in a self-driving, AI-powered Waymo car in San Francisco—a video of an empty driver’s seat with the steering wheel making a smooth left turn on a busy street—the responses ranged from “Yikes” and “That is CRAZY” to “No no no.” I’ll admit, I was […]
Trump tells Rupert Murdoch to help him secure US election ‘victory’
Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House Donald Trump has called on Rupert Murdoch to stop Fox News from airing “negative commercials” that might damage his re-election campaign, saying the conservative media billionaire should help deliver “victory” for him […]
Are tulips just too much trouble?
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The ground is soft and easily planted with bulbs. The last spring flowering bulbs that should go in are tulips, readily plantable until late November. Tulips and I have had a rollercoaster ride in recent […]
Netflix shares jump 11%, hit record high after earnings beat
A great year for Netflix keeps on getting better. The stock jumped 11% Friday morning after the streaming giant’s Q3 earnings beat Wall Street’s expectations across the board, and many analysts and portfolio managers still see plenty of room to grow. Shares are now up over 60% this year after soaring to a new all-time […]
‘My loyalty is to history’
David Olusoga talks about history as if it were a lover. The study of the past is a 40-year romance that animates and excites him. And like any infatuated lover, he sees the object of his affection everywhere. He sees it when he is out of an evening: “I love having a drink in Covent […]
Spirit to furlough hundreds as Boeing strike’s effects feed through supply chain
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spirit AeroSystems, the struggling supplier to Boeing, on Friday said it would furlough about 700 workers from the end of October as a prolonged strike at the aircraft maker has hit its supply chain. The […]
Jerome Powell and the Fed have accidentally stalled the housing market
Jerome Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) have got a job to do—regardless of what the markets or consumers might want. Unfortunately for the property sector, Powell’s rates strategy has thrown a significant spanner in the works. Consumers are hanging on to properties they purchased a couple of years ago at lower mortgage […]
McKinsey faces Republican calls for probe into China ‘conflicts’
Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House Leading Republican lawmakers have called for a US justice department investigation into whether McKinsey violated federal law by failing to disclose potential conflicts of interest between its work in China and for […]
Final video of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar transfixes Gaza
For months, Israel has portrayed the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as holed up in the militant group’s fortified tunnel network under Gaza, shielding himself from Israeli bombs. But when many Palestinians in the strip watched the Israeli drone footage of Sinwar’s killing, they saw the Hamas chief above ground, dressed in military fatigues and with […]