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US presidential election 2024

Ron DeSantis campaign in turmoil as 2024 Republican primaries loom

Staff shake-up at Florida governor’s spending group comes just six weeks before Iowa caucuses

Sveriges Riksbank

Interview. Sweden’s long-term growth at risk from gang crime, warns central bank chief

Riksbank governor Erik Thedéen says businesses would be affected if trust declines due to rise in violent crime

Chinese economy

Moody’s cuts China’s credit outlook to negative

Rating agency cites increasing risks to growth and a property sector crisis

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China tries to bridge economic policy ‘credibility gap’

Spotlight

Houthi attacks on vessels in Red Sea sound alarm for global trade

Shipowners demand more military protection for maritime routes amid fears of widening Middle East conflict

Amy Edmondson wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year

Management title ‘Right Kind of Wrong’ praised as ‘highly readable and relevant’

News

Signa Holding debts doubled in the months preceding insolvency filing

Liabilities climbed to €5bn in September, up from about €2bn at the end of 2022

Norway’s parliament backs deep-sea mining plans

Environmentalists warn move to extract minerals needed for green industries risks damaging fragile ecosystems

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Interview. US gas upstart hits back at BP and Shell in export dispute

‘We are a catastrophe for them,’ says Venture Global’s Mike Sabel after oil majors allege $18bn windfall

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More US holiday shoppers turn to ‘buy now, pay later’ loans

Rise of high-tech instalment plans raise concerns about consumer repayments

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Tesla battle with Swedish unions spreads to Denmark

3F dockworkers and drivers say they will take sympathy action to prevent US cars reaching Sweden

Israel-Hamas war

Israel defends high-tech evacuation plan amid rising Gaza death toll

Palestinian civilians say they have no safe refuge after thousands are killed in bombings

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London Stock Exchange suffers new trading outages

Small-cap stocks affected in incidents that appear identical to glitch in October

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Exchange traded funds

ETF Hub. Buying frenzy puts some Grayscale crypto funds at ‘absurd’ premiums

Grayscale Filecoin Trust hit high of more than 10 times underlying value of its assets in November

Germany’s budget crisis threatens chipmaking ambitions

Top court has cast doubt over billions of euros in subsidies for semiconductor groups

Outlook. How to cope with Argentina’s economic absurdities

As President Javier Milei faces a Herculean task, citizens share informal strategies to navigate spiralling inflation

Qatar slashes stake in Barclays with £510mn share sale

Sovereign wealth fund makes move amid pressure on bank to improve its performance

Opinion

For true AI governance, we need to avoid a single point of failure

Society is not ready to respond if we bridge the gap to human general intelligence

Why Modi is cruising to a third term

State elections show that the Indian prime minister keeps benefiting from the failings of the opposition

Markets Insight. CBDCs still have not found their raison d'être

Barry Eichengreen

America and a crumbling global order

Trivial concerns threaten big decisions on Europe’s future

Migration crackdowns won’t help Europe’s moderate right

Catherine De Vries

Lex. Strait of Hormuz/oil: sanguine markets belie growing risk

The FT View. China’s accelerating rise in consumer defaults

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Novo Nordisk seeks to use obesity drug findings to prevent weight gain

Pharma group behind blockbuster drug wants to supersize its market impact

Ex-Freshfields partner ‘highly likely’ to be convicted in tax scandal

German companies cut investment plans as economic gloom deepens

US funding for Ukraine set to run out by end of the year, White House warns

Europe Express. Why Slovakia and the Czech Republic want to continue using Russian oil

Ireland says it has run out of room for refugees

Poland’s central bank turns to ECB in spat with Tusk

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Review. The Metropolitan Museum’s rehung European galleries are a triumph

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Highlights

French, UK and Spanish institutions top new ranking of European business schools

HEC Paris comes first in latest Financial Times’ evaluation of performance, followed by London Business School and Iese

How China is tearing down Islam

Paul McClean graduate trainee programme

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Why staff loyalty is not always a good thing

How alcohol became a crutch for professional women

Are workplace romances a savvy investment?

Technology

Ericsson boosted by $14bn ‘open RAN’ deal with AT&T

Swedish group triumphs over rival Nokia by being selected to help US giant roll out new kind of 5G network

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Standout examples of in-house lawyers’ work

Specialist lawyers lead cyber counterattack

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Legal experts step up to defend wave of AI lawsuits

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