Browsing: Financial Times

The Financial Times says stocks and bonds dipped in value on Wednesday as investors lost confidence in expectations of swift interest rate cuts in Europe, the US and UK.

The Financial Times says Rishi Sunak suffered the biggest revolt of his premiership over the Rwanda bill as dozens of MPs voted for an amendment seeking to toughen up the legislation.

The Financial Times says the government could save at least £20bn per year if it modernised IT systems, tackled fraud and reined in large projects such as HS2, the head of the National Audit Office.

The Financial Times says the government tried to block Fujitsu, the firm implicated in the Post Office scandal, from new public contracts in the early 2010s.

The FT leads with the Iranian navy seizing a tanker off the coast in Oman, amid tensions in the nearby Red Sea with assaults on vessels by Tehran-backed Houthi rebels.

The Financial Times reports that Rishi Sunak has promised a new law “within weeks” to overturn the convictions of sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses involved in the Post Office Horizon scandal, the paper describes the legislation as “unprecedented”.

The Financial Times reports that, since 2019, when the Court of Appeal ruled that Fujitsu software had been at fault in the scandal, the technology company has been the joint or sole recipient of £4.9bn worth of government contracts.

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Narendra Modi has responded to claims of an Indian assassination plot on American soil for the first time, telling the Financial Times he would “look into” any evidence

The Financial Times reports activist investor Cevian Capital has taken a €1.2bn stake in the Swiss bank UBS, betting it can double its valuation over the next three to five years.