Key Points Gartner insiders sold this year as prices rose to new highs: investors should pay attention to the trend. The stock price trends higher due to business growth, cash flow, and share repurchases. Institutions and analysts provide a strong tailwind that supports the market in 2024. The story with insider trading in Gartner (NYSE: […]
Top Trump economic adviser says big Fed rate cut was justified
Kevin Hassett is contender to replace Jay Powell as US central bank chair if Republican wins election
Postcard from Greece . . . meeting the 100-year-old guru of hotel design
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. To visit Delphi is to travel back in time. Not to the 6th century BC — when the Pythian oracle dispensed prophetic hexameters to the throngs who came to consult her — but to the […]
Weaponised autism and the extremist threat facing children
It is high summer in the English suburbs, and the hedges around Josh’s house are cut sharp as a Lego brick. He has mown the grass to an exacting stripe and is clipping the ragged bay tree. Josh, who is 13, has few friends and spends his school holidays gardening. From inside the house, his […]
Russia will stop war if Nato invites Ukraine to join, says Zelenskyy
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said a formal invitation to join Nato is “the only way” Ukraine can survive Russia’s invasion, as the Ukrainian president urged western allies to endorse his plan to end the war. Zelenskyy […]
Why Trump, Harris and the world are watching the small Midwest city of Omaha
In some possible futures, the small Midwest city of Omaha, Nebraska, will be the world’s most important place next month: the crucial vote that hands the White House to Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. Omaha is the largest city in a Republican state, and makes up the bulk of its second congressional district. But Nebraska, […]
Hamas chief’s death opens up choice for Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza war
Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar is its most symbolic achievement of the war it has waged against Hamas since the militant group invaded last year and carried out the deadliest attack in the country’s history. Diplomats and analysts said the death of the Hamas leader was a body blow for the Palestinian militant group. But […]
Taboos take a back seat in a new Europe
Fewer voters are put off by the roots of some far-right parties
Four economic truths that explain the US’s bizarre election
One upside to the degradation of American political discourse is that, with little risk of missing an important detail, the economic positions of our rival parties can be summed up with a handful of words. So here they are: Donald Trump’s position is that the economy is apocalyptically terrible in every respect. Kamala Harris says […]
This luxury capitulation has barely begun
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The business of luxury is seduction. The aesthetics, the textures, the aura of exclusivity all conspire to turn savvy customers into true believers. That logic is not supposed to apply to hard-nosed investors. Yet their […]