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Data due out on Thursday will show whether Britain tipped into a technical recession at the end of last year
UK chancellor’s move aims to reassure voters that Conservatives represent the interests of homeowners
...Joshua FranklinIt’s really interesting....
For first time since 2008 two-year gilts also pass 5% ahead of expected increase in interest rates this week
Starmer plans rise in stamp duty and restrictions on new-build purchases
Bills to end ‘no fault’ evictions and change leasehold system before next election
...Plus the FT’s political editor, George Parker, examines how the UK conservative party might squeeze out a win during the country’s next general election....
...“We still are seeing plenty of proposals on policing reform,” Parker said. “But unfortunately, the majority of those bills are Band-Aids.”...
...Additional reporting by Peter Campbell, Laura Onita, Anjli Raval, Joshua Oliver, Madeleine Speed and Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan...
...“What has attracted hedge funds is predominantly a function of the opportunity set,” said Freddie Parker, co-head of Goldman’s prime brokerage insight and analytics team....
...Here’s the FT’s George Parker....
Chancellor tells top bankers he is ‘confident’ his strategy will work and remains committed to bringing down debt
...Joshua Goldstein, professor emeritus of international relations at the American University, says that whatever efforts society makes to mitigate climate change “would be really helped [by] geoengineering...
...Two other law firms, Leigh Day and Harcus Parker, considered the case against Hargreaves Lansdown but decided to only pursue Link as a simpler way to try to recover money....
...Law firms Leigh Day and Harcus Parker are preparing claims that could run to hundreds of millions of pounds, arguing that investors are due compensation because Link failed to oversee the fund properly,...
...The lack of information provided by the FCA was criticised by Daniel Kerrigan, a senior associate at law firm Harcus Parker which, jointly with Leigh Day, intends to bring a court case on behalf of investors...
...Ministers are being urged to extend an export ban on Joshua Reynolds’ “Portrait of Omai”, featuring one of the UK’s first non-white celebrities, as a race begins to raise £50mn to keep the culturally sensitive...
...“Collaborating with Harcus Parker is the most effective and efficient way of securing justice.”...
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is still ‘in charge’, insists new chancellor Jeremy Hunt
...(Find further analysis by George Parker and Jude Webber on Sunak’s gamble in their long-read here)....
...Click here for further background and analysis, including Joshua Chaffin’s excellent profile of the man presiding over the case, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg....
...The first is Joshua Oliver’s eye-opening account of the chaotic doings of failed crypto platform FTX....
...Presented this week by George Parker. Produced by Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Joshua Gabert-Doyon and Jan Sigsworth....
...Additional reporting by George Parker in London...
...In late 2021, SBF invested $20mn in Paradigm, a large venture capital fund and big backer of crypto start-ups that took a stake in his FTX cryptocurrency exchange group, the FT’s Kadhim Shubber and Joshua...
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