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Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is planning the biggest shake-up to Individual Savings Accounts in years to persuade more people to take advantage of the tax-free vehicles and use them to back London-listed companies. UK

Crispin Odey faces the first lawsuit stemming from allegations against the financier of multiple instances of sexual misconduct over decades. Two of his alleged victims have submitted a civil claim in the high court against him and the hedge fund firm he founded, Odey Asset Management. The court granted anonymity for the two women during

Receive free Rupert Murdoch updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Rupert Murdoch news every morning. Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp, marking the end of an era for the powerful media billionaire. Lachlan Murdoch, his elder son, will become sole chair of

Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Ford has criticised anticipated moves by the UK government to delay its net zero efforts, even as home secretary Suella Braverman attacked previous government commitments as “arbitrary”, “punitive” and “totally unrealistic”. Car manufacturers

Receive free Cboe Global Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Cboe Global Markets news every morning. The chief executive of Cboe Global Markets has resigned after failing to disclose personal relationships with colleagues. Edward Tilly, who has been at Cboe for 35 years, “did not disclose personal

Receive free Hedge funds updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Hedge funds news every morning. A build-up of leveraged bets has the potential to “dislocate” trading in the $25tn US Treasuries market, the umbrella group for central banks said, the latest high-profile warning over the potential for crowded

Receive free US interest rates updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US interest rates news every morning. The US Federal Reserve will defy investors’ expectations and raise interest rates by at least another quarter-point, according to a majority of leading academic economists polled by the Financial Times. More

Receive free Arm Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arm Ltd news every morning. Arm’s $5bn initial public offering this week was the most expensive in fees for five years, earning a $84mn windfall for the professional services firms that advised it, including Deloitte. The SoftBank-backed chip

Receive free UK labour disputes updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK labour disputes news every morning. The UK’s train drivers’ union has announced a new set of strikes targeting the Conservative party’s annual conference in October. Aslef said on Friday that drivers at 16 train companies would

Receive free Arm Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arm Ltd news every morning. Shares in SoftBank-backed chipmaker Arm jumped by 10 per cent as it began trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Thursday. Arm opened at $56.10 per share on Thursday afternoon, significantly above the $51

US inflation exceeded forecasts in August after fuel prices rose, but underlying price pressures eased. The headline rate of consumer prices rose 3.7 per cent year on year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.2 per cent in July and higher than consensus forecasts of 3.6 per cent. On a monthly basis,

UK ministers are looking at altering the “triple lock” rule and increasing state pensions next year by less than the 8.5 per cent increase in headline earnings, amid concerns about the state of public finances. Officials say the government is exploring adjusting the guarantee, which has been in place since 2010 and stipulates that pensions

The banks underwriting Arm’s $50bn listing will close orders for shares a day earlier than planned due to strong demand for the biggest initial public offering in nearly two years. People familiar with the matter said the IPO for the UK-based chip designer, which is more than five times oversubscribed, will close on Tuesday, instead

Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has said Rome wants to forge stronger ties with China, even as it considers pulling out of Beijing’s controversial Belt & Road Initiative in the coming months. “The issue is how to ensure a partnership that can be mutually beneficial, regardless of the choices we make on the BRI,” Meloni

G20 leaders have failed to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a joint statement after China and Russia rejected language that blamed Moscow for the conflict, highlighting the lack of global consensus in support of Kyiv. The New Delhi summit declaration refers only to the “war in Ukraine”, a formulation that supporters of Kyiv such

Receive free UK airports updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK airports news every morning. The UK’s two busiest international airports, Heathrow and Gatwick, have detected the type of concrete that recently forced hundreds of UK schools to close and sparked a political crisis. The airports, which together

UK businesses expect inflation and wage growth to ease, according to a closely watched monthly survey by the Bank of England, providing some relief for policymakers ahead of the interest rate decision later this month. Output prices are expected to increase by 4.9 per cent over the next 12 months, according to August’s Decision Maker

The pound fell to a three-month low on Wednesday after Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey cast doubt on the need for further interest rate rises. Sterling was down 0.5 per cent on the day against the dollar to $1.249 after Bailey told MPs that the UK economy was now “much nearer the top of the

Arm plans to price its initial public offering at between $47 and $51 per share, according to an updated filing on Tuesday, raising up to $4.9bn for its current owner SoftBank and valuing the UK-based chip designer at up to $52bn. Cornerstone investors including Apple, Google, Nvidia, Intel and TSMC have indicated they plan to

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak is facing the prospect of two parliamentary by-elections in Conservative strongholds this autumn after Chris Pincher lost his appeal against an eight-week suspension from the House of Commons for groping two men last year. An independent parliamentary panel upheld the recommendation by the Commons standards committee in July, ruling that

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