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...Watch: Al Gore, the former US vice-president, tells the FT’s Moral Money Summit why he thinks this year’s COP28 climate change talks in the United Arab Emirates look likely to fail, and what it will take...
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its interest rate decision today at 2pm ET/7pm London. Check back on FT.com for details and reaction....
...Oil and gas companies, accused by former US vice-president Al Gore of “capturing” UN institutions, are also wary of giving too much ground....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Minutes from the Fed’s last policy meeting are due at 2pm ET/7pm London time today and should reveal the reasoning behind the further quarter-point rise earlier this month....
...The FT editorial board says Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi needs to shrink the role of the state and military-owned companies to address the country’s deepening economic crisis....
...The US Federal Reserve will publish minutes from its November policy meeting at 2pm ET/7pm London....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...The newly-sworn in Iraqi government of Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is reeling from the “heist of the century” after $2.5bn was allegedly spirited away from tax authorities....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...Our economics editor Chris Giles and US economics editor Colby Smith are in discussion in an Instagram live on August 18 at 4pm BST/11am ET....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...Global latest The US Senate will vote on the debt ceiling at 2pm ET (7pm London), with Democrats needing 10 Republicans to vote with them to raise the country’s borrowing limits....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...By avoiding the distribution of realised capital gains, the average ETF has had a tax burden 0.92 percentage points lower than that of the typical mutual fund over the past five years, Moussawi et al found...
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...It will issue a statement today at 2pm ET: here are five things to watch....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...In their astute article on the much heralded reform of the British civil service (“The smashing of the British state”, Magazine, FT Weekend, October 10), Sebastian Payne et al. asked perhaps the most pertinent...
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