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Receive free Share buybacks updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Share buybacks news every morning. Share buybacks on the US stock market have dropped to the slowest pace since the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic as rising interest rates undermine the incentive for companies to purchase their

Russia has authorised unreinforced oil tankers to sail through its icy Northern Sea Route for the first time, triggering warnings Moscow is risking a catastrophic Arctic spill as it reroutes sanctions-hit energy exports to Asia. Two tankers were granted permission in August to carry out the 3,500-mile long journey along Russia’s northern coast, despite not

Receive free Chinese politics & policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese politics & policy news every morning. The US government believes Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu has been placed under investigation in the latest sign of turmoil among elite members of Beijing’s military and foreign policy

9/13/2023, 11:29:00 PM What to watch in Asia today William Langley in Hong Kong UK-China relations: The British government is expected to formally respond to a damning report from parliament’s intelligence and security committee in July, which found the UK’s approach to China’s “increasingly sophisticated” espionage was “completely inadequate”. Hong Kong: The second day of

UK government bond yields and the pound fell on Tuesday, as investors took a mixed set of jobs data as a sign that the labour market may be cooling. The yield on the interest rate-sensitive two-year gilt fell 0.05 percentage points to 5.02 per cent and the 10-year yield dropped by a similar amount to

The world is at “the beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era, according to the leading global energy watchdog, which for the first time has forecast that demand for oil, natural gas and coal will all peak before 2030. New projections by the International Energy Agency forecast that the consumption of the three

The London law firm Schillings battles in and out of courts for celebrities from Meghan Markle to Johnny Depp and Lance Armstrong, along with other wealthy clients who mostly stay out of the public gaze. They value their privacy and use Schillings to protect it. So it was a surprise when the firm announced this

There’s a moment in your late forties or fifties when life seems to become more complicated.  This should be a time when you enjoy the fruits of your earlier labours, with the career settled, children largely grown up and the mortgage mostly paid off. On top of this, the current cohort stands to benefit from

Oil prices rose above $90 a barrel for the first time in 2023 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia and Russia said they would extend their voluntary production and export cuts until the end of the year. Saudi Arabia, which leads the expanded Opec+ cartel with Russia, has cut an additional 1mn barrels a day from

Apple and Microsoft, the most valuable companies in the US, have argued some of their flagship services are insufficiently popular to be designated “gatekeepers” under landmark new EU legislation designed to curb the power of Big Tech. Brussels’ battle with Apple over its iMessage chat app and Microsoft’s search engine Bing comes ahead of Wednesday’s

Chinese lenders stepped in to extend billions of dollars to Russian banks as western institutions pulled back their operations in the country during the first year of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The moves by four of China’s biggest banks are part of Beijing’s efforts to promote the renminbi as an alternative global currency to the

Receive free Healthcare updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Healthcare news every morning. Are the British work-shy? The UK is now the only developed country where more people have continued to drop out of the workforce since the pandemic. The work and pensions secretary has urged the over-50s

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Chinese property stocks declined on Thursday after Country Garden, once the country’s largest developer by sales, reported record losses and China Vanke cancelled a share placement. The CSI 300 Real Estate index, which tracks property stocks listed on mainland exchanges, declined 4.1 per cent in morning trading. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Mainland Properties index declined

US secretary of commerce Gina Raimondo has told China’s number two official Premier Li Qiang that Washington does not want to decouple from the world’s second-largest economy and hopes to expand trade. Her meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with Li, a close confidant of President Xi Jinping and the head

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European equities and Wall Street futures rose on Thursday, as blowout revenues from chipmaker Nvidia fuelled investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence stocks.  Europe’s region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 pared some early morning gains but traded 0.3 per cent higher, while France’s Cac 40 added 0.4 per cent and Germany’s Dax gained 0.3 per cent.  The Stoxx

Russia’s army has dismissed Sergei Surovikin, a prominent general, as head of its aerospace forces amid a crackdown on potential Wagner sympathisers following the paramilitary group’s failed mutiny in June. State newswire RIA Novosti cited an “informed source” on Wednesday saying Surovikin had been “relieved of his post” and replaced by Viktor Afzalov, the aerospace

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Zero day options are now almost 50 percent of the options market. But what are they? And why would anyone take these bets? Today on the show, host Ethan Wu and Alphaville’s Robin Wigglesworth discuss the

When I published a bullish book about Asia in 2016, I felt I had good answers to all the sceptical questions except one. What about China’s demography? The cliché was that China will “grow old before it grows rich”. Like many clichés, it turns out to have some truth to it.  For all the talk in