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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 dollar hit a three-month low on Tuesday and US Treasury yields slid as investors grew increasingly confident that the US Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates by mid-2024. The US currency slid

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hamas is expected to release more hostages on Monday, the fourth and final day of a temporary truce with Israel, as pressure grows on the Israeli authorities to extend the pause in hostilities in order

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The precarious truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza stretched into a third day on Sunday as both sides prepared for another round of hostage and prisoner releases which are due to take place later

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hamas is expected to release at least a dozen more hostages who are being held in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as a four-day truce stretches into its second day. Israel and Hamas conducted the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hamas has released 24 hostages who had been held in the Gaza Strip, according to Qatar, as the Palestinian militant group’s truce with Israel took hold. The group were transferred to the International Committee of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Net migration to the UK hit a record 745,000 last year — 139,000 higher than previously estimated — with big increases in non-EU nationals coming for work, the Office for National Statistics said on Thursday.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has cut national insurance by 2 percentage points and made business investment tax relief permanent, as he put a £20bn tax giveaway at the heart of his Autumn Statement. Hunt claimed

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Andrew Bailey warned markets that they were underestimating the persistence of UK inflation, as the Bank of England governor stressed it was too soon to start cutting interest rates. Bailey told MPs on Tuesday that

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft has hired Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead a team conducting artificial intelligence research, days after the pair were pushed out of OpenAI, the company they co-founded. Writing on X on Monday, Microsoft

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI investors are working to get rid of the company’s board and reinstate Sam Altman as chief executive of the generative AI start-up, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation, in what would

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has left the company abruptly after losing the confidence of the board, according to a statement on Friday from the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence pioneer. “Mr Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The head of the London Stock Exchange Group has argued that companies going public in New York do not receive a higher valuation than they would in London, responding to the drift of listings away

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alibaba has ditched plans to spin off its cloud business and paused the listing of its supermarket unit amid waning investor enthusiasm for the Chinese ecommerce giant’s radical restructuring plan. After reporting lacklustre earnings on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the government’s policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, in a major blow to Rishi Sunak’s government. Lord Robert Reed, president of the Supreme Court,

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US inflation fell more than expected to 3.2 per cent in October, the first decline in four months, prompting Treasury yields to fall sharply and Wall Street stocks to climb. Tuesday’s consumer price data compares

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman, the controversial home secretary, after she defied the prime minister’s authority last week, as the he launched a major reshuffle of his top team. In further developments on Monday

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A top UN official has condemned attacks on hospitals in Gaza as “unconscionable” and “reprehensible”, as Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in the streets around the besieged strip’s largest medical facility. Martin Griffiths, the UN’s

Business taxes are set to fall in this month’s Autumn Statement as UK ministers signalled that they want to incentivise companies to pull Britain out of its growth stupor. As new data showed the economy flatlining, chancellor Jeremy Hunt and his deputy John Glen made clear their desire to cut business taxes, including by extending

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK economy stagnated in the three months to September according to official figures that highlight the challenge facing chancellor Jeremy Hunt as he seeks to revive growth in his upcoming Autumn Statement. Gross domestic

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple has been dealt a blow in its €14.3bn tax dispute with Brussels after an adviser to the EU’s top court said an earlier ruling over its business in Ireland should be shelved. Giovanni Pitruzzella,