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Receive free Electric vehicles updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Electric vehicles news every morning. The boss of Nissan has warned that the world “needs to move on” from the internal combustion engine days after UK prime minister Rishi Sunak delayed a ban on the sale of new

Receive free War in Ukraine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. US president Joe Biden has decided to send American long-range missiles known as ATACMS to Ukraine after months of deliberations over whether to provide Kyiv with the munitions, according to people

Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. Wall Street stocks recovered on Friday after a week in which equities have been buffeted by rising oil prices and growing expectations that interest rates will stay higher for longer. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500

Receive free UK interest rates updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK interest rates news every morning. UK mortgage rates are expected to fall further after the Bank of England held interest rates at 5.25 per cent after almost two years of rising borrowing costs.  Mortgage prices have

Rishi Sunak’s anticipated delay in banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars has prompted a backlash from the UK automotive industry, which warned it would undermine investment certainty. The UK prime minister’s expected shift of the target from 2030 to 2035, which was noted in automotive boardrooms across the world, has cast uncertainty

Receive free FTX Trading Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest FTX Trading Ltd news every morning. FTX has sued the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, claiming they enriched themselves by siphoning off millions of dollars from the cryptocurrency exchange their son founded. In a court filing late on

Receive free Electric vehicles updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Electric vehicles news every morning. The UK car industry has called for tax incentives to help motorists switch to electric vehicles to offset a weakening demand for battery models among private buyers. “Our EV market is emerging from

Receive free Share buybacks updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Share buybacks news every morning. Share buybacks on the US stock market have dropped to the slowest pace since the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic as rising interest rates undermine the incentive for companies to purchase their

Russia has authorised unreinforced oil tankers to sail through its icy Northern Sea Route for the first time, triggering warnings Moscow is risking a catastrophic Arctic spill as it reroutes sanctions-hit energy exports to Asia. Two tankers were granted permission in August to carry out the 3,500-mile long journey along Russia’s northern coast, despite not

Receive free Chinese politics & policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese politics & policy news every morning. The US government believes Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu has been placed under investigation in the latest sign of turmoil among elite members of Beijing’s military and foreign policy

Receive free Electric vehicles updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Electric vehicles news every morning. Beijing has attacked the EU’s anti-subsidies investigation into China’s electric car industry as a “naked protectionist act” and warned that it will have a negative impact on relations in its first official comments

US inflation exceeded forecasts in August after fuel prices rose, but underlying price pressures eased. The headline rate of consumer prices rose 3.7 per cent year on year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.2 per cent in July and higher than consensus forecasts of 3.6 per cent. On a monthly basis,

The world is at “the beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era, according to the leading global energy watchdog, which for the first time has forecast that demand for oil, natural gas and coal will all peak before 2030. New projections by the International Energy Agency forecast that the consumption of the three

China has challenged the planned US presidency of the G20 in 2026, according to officials briefed on the discussions, in a move that underscores the deep sense of mistrust between Beijing and Washington. Chinese officials used diplomatic meetings at the G20 summit in New Delhi this week to voice opposition to the US assuming the

For Beijing-based real estate agent Xue, deals have bounced back over the past week in the wake of government measures aimed at propping up the country’s stumbling property sector and the broader economy. “The inventory of available properties is decreasing daily,” said Xue, who asked to be identified by one name, adding there were signs

Warner Music has acquired a majority stake in record company 10K Projects, the upstart label behind the rapper Ice Spice, for an undisclosed sum, according to a person familiar with the matter.  10K Projects was founded in 2016 by Elliot Grainge, the son of Universal Music chief Lucian Grainge — Warner Music’s rival.  Warner, the

Apple and Microsoft, the most valuable companies in the US, have argued some of their flagship services are insufficiently popular to be designated “gatekeepers” under landmark new EU legislation designed to curb the power of Big Tech. Brussels’ battle with Apple over its iMessage chat app and Microsoft’s search engine Bing comes ahead of Wednesday’s

Chinese lenders stepped in to extend billions of dollars to Russian banks as western institutions pulled back their operations in the country during the first year of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The moves by four of China’s biggest banks are part of Beijing’s efforts to promote the renminbi as an alternative global currency to the

Chinese authorities stepped up measures to support the renminbi and boost the country’s housing market in an effort to restore confidence in the world’s second-largest economy. The People’s Bank of China said on Friday it would cut the amount of foreign currency that financial institutions are required to hold in reserve, signalling its resolve to

Receive free Healthcare updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Healthcare news every morning. Are the British work-shy? The UK is now the only developed country where more people have continued to drop out of the workforce since the pandemic. The work and pensions secretary has urged the over-50s