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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Fifty corporate winners from the coronavirus pandemic have lost roughly $1.5tn in market value since the end of 2020, as investors turn their backs on many of the stocks that rocketed during early lockdowns. According to

Israel threatened to expand its military operation in Rafah after tanks and troops seized the main border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, as international mediators struggled to continue talks aimed at ending the conflict. Israel launched its ground offensive into eastern Rafah on Monday, hours after Hamas said it had accepted a draft proposal of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel has carried out night air strikes on Rafah and said a ceasefire proposal accepted by Hamas fell “far from Israel’s necessary requirement”, as international mediators and officials struggled to continue talks to halt fighting

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hamas has said it has broadly accepted a proposal to free dozens of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and a temporary ceasefire in its seven-month war with Israel. According to a statement on

A US crackdown on banks financing trade in goods for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has made it much more difficult to move money in and out of Russia, according to senior western officials and Russian financiers. Moscow’s trade volumes with key partners such as Turkey and China have slumped in the first quarter of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak was told by Conservative MPs on Sunday to show some vision and start digging his party out of the “hole” it was in after a disastrous set of local election results. Although Tory

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak was facing renewed Conservative unrest on Saturday night after his party suffered crushing defeats in a series of mayoral contests including London, and Labour claimed victory in its flagship West Midlands. Some Tory

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak’s chastening encounter with the electorate continues on Saturday as the results of mayoral contests in some of England’s biggest urban areas are set to be declared. Sunak’s Conservatives have been hammered in local

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Reform UK is boosting Labour’s prospects in its battle with the Conservatives, but narrow gains for the right-wing party in local elections where it stood in few seats have raised doubts over its wider electoral

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were on the rack on Friday after the party was trounced by Labour in the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election and faced huge losses in local elections across England and Wales. Sir Keir

Elections were held on Thursday in 107 councils in England and Wales, as well as for 10 regional mayors and 37 police and crime commissioners. This is less than a third of all local authorities in the two countries — there are 317 councils of various types in England and another 22 in Wales, not

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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US interest rates myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Federal Reserve has signalled that US borrowing costs are likely to remain higher for longer, as a it wrestles with persistent inflation across the world’s biggest economy. The Federal Open Market Committee said

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis are threatening merchant ships hundreds of miles out in the Indian Ocean after striking a container vessel well beyond the Red Sea last week, maritime officials and experts have warned. The drone

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Jeremy Hunt has warned the Financial Conduct Authority against its plan to “name and shame” companies under investigation in an unusual broadside against the UK’s top financial regulator. “I hope the FCA re-look at

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has been found in contempt of court and fined $9,000 for repeatedly attacking potential witnesses and jurors in his Manhattan “hush money” case, in violation of a gag order imposed on the former

When Humza Yousaf tore up a power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens last Thursday at Bute House, he sought to improve his nationalist party’s prospects by shifting away from the progressive policies associated with the coalition. Four days later, that political miscalculation boomeranged back on the first minister in historic fashion as Yousaf returned to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Scotland’s beleaguered first minister Humza Yousaf is considering quitting ahead of crunch votes of no confidence expected this week. Yousaf, who faces two attempts to bring down his premiership and government, is set to decide

The largest western banks that remain in Russia paid the Kremlin more than €800mn of taxes last year, a fourfold increase on prewar levels, despite promises to minimise their Russian exposure after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The seven top European banks by assets in Russia — Raiffeisen Bank International, UniCredit, ING, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk met senior Chinese trade officials in Beijing on Sunday as the Tesla chief faces questions over slowing sales growth for his electric vehicles and data security concerns in the world’s biggest car market.