Browsing: Financial Times

Federal judges in the US have ruled that Donald Trump cannot use presidential immunity in his election interference case.

The paper also leads with a picture of the King as it reports on the announcement of his cancer diagnosis.

Iranian petrochemical firms secretly used British front companies to obtain bank accounts with Lloyds and Santander in order to evade US sanctions.

Mounting losses from banks in the US, Asia and Europe have rekindled concerns about weakness in the US commercial property market.

FT – Washington not looking for war with Iran after deadly assault on US troops THE FINANCIAL TIMES SAYS Washington said it was “not looking…

THE FT focuses on three US troops killed in a drone attack on a military base near the Syrian border. The deadly strike was carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant group” according to the White House.

The Financial Times splashes on the news that Paris is pressing Britain to help fund nuclear power projects in the UK being built by the French government-owned energy company EDF.

Britain’s flagship Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant has been pushed back again until 2029 at the earliest, according to the Financial Times.

Financial Times – Narrow voter ID rules expose Tories to claims of bias Conservative ministers have “opened themselves” up to the charge that a new…

The Financial Times says the world’s most successful hedge funds made their biggest profits in more than a decade last year as bets on stock markets paid off when share prices surged.

The Financial Times reports Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has hinted at more tax cuts in the months ahead as he left open the possibility of holding two budgets before the general election.

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.

Elementor #577555January 9, 20241 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Financial Times – Deluge of debt feeds fear of backlash in bond…

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.

Adobe has dropped its planned takeover of product design firm Figma due to UK and EU regulatory issues, the Financial Times reports.

The Financial Times splashes on a warning from the IMF that the Ukrainian economy could be in trouble if Kyiv’s allies don’t speed up extra funding for the war-torn nation.

The Financial Times splashes on the climate deal reached at COP28 which has mentioned a desire to shift away from fossil fuels for the first time.

The Financial Times leads on the government’s migration bill vote passing – saying Rishi Sunak headed off a “right-wing revolt”.