UK consumer confidence tumbles in anticipation of ‘painful’ Budget
Starmer insists he is setting out reality of ‘badly damaged economy’ as GfK survey shows sharp fall in household morale ...
Letter: How the EU can reset foreign policy for the western Balkans
It’s worth adding that in a foreign policy area on the bloc’s very borders, the EU has led the west into a dead end of ...
Sri Lanka’s first post-default vote tests support for political elite
Leftist frontrunner promises crackdown on ‘corrupt’ politicians and calls for revisiting deals with IMF and bondholders ...
S&P 500 closes at record high after Fed makes jumbo cut to US interest rates
Before Wednesday’s cut, US rates had been at their highest since 2001 as the Fed sought to bring down inflation from the ...
FirstFT: VW audit of Xinjiang plant fell short of international standards
Also in today’s newsletter, Taiwan warns over China’s growing military activity, and the S&P 500 closes at a record high ...
Nike chief executive John Donahoe to step down
Nike chief executive John Donahoe will retire next month in an abrupt leadership change punctuating a period of dour ...
Transcript: Federal Reserve puts on enormous party hat
Federal Reserve puts on enormous party hat’ Katie Martin A great moment in history has arrived. Rob Armstrong was ...
Letter: Here’s a way countries will escape middle-income trap
Martin Wolf correctly identifies poor use of capital, rather than its scarcity, as the primary challenge for developing countries ( Opinion, September 11). This echoes Peter F Drucker’s assertions ...
Israel’s northern gambit: Netanyahu shifts war focus to Hizbollah
Exploding devices and air strikes suggest strategy is to force Lebanese militants to rethink military support for Gaza ...
Axel Springer top team close to making 8 times their money in KKR deal
Group valuation underpinning planned break-up nears €13.6bn, which would trigger bumper payouts to more than 100 managers ...
Lord Alli: How Labour donor’s largesse tarnished government’s squeaky clean image
Lord Waheed Alli has always enjoyed picking winners, whether in the worlds of finance, media and fashion where he made his ...
Letter: Chill in the art market? It feels more like an ice age
The value of the global art market’s total annual sales, as calculated by consultants Arts Economics and their report, commissioned by Art Basel and UBS, has been hovering around $60bn for each of the ...