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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 European Central Bank updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest European Central Bank news every morning. The European Central Bank has raised interest rates to an all-time high in a bid to cool consumer prices, despite faltering growth in the eurozone. The ECB’s knife-edge decision to lift

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

A British parliamentary researcher accused of working for Beijing has denied all spying allegations levelled against him. Speaking through Birnberg Peirce, the law firm representing him, the researcher said he felt “forced to respond to the media accusations that I am a ‘Chinese spy’”. “Given what has been reported, it is vital that it is

India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has called for the mandate of multilateral lenders such as the World Bank to be expanded, as the IMF’s managing director demanded an increase in the lender’s resources by the end of the year. Efforts to boost the balance sheets and reform the governance of the Washington-based multilateral lenders have

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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Dealing with the market turmoil sparked by then UK prime minister Liz Truss’ ill-fated “mini” Budget last year felt like swimming with crocodiles, according to the Bank of England’s chief economist. Huw Pill told a panel at South Africa’s central bank on Friday that the September fiscal event, which set out £45bn in unfunded tax

Britain’s economic performance since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic was much better than previously thought, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday as revised figures added nearly 2 per cent to the size of the economy. The changes mean that by the end of 2021, the UK economy was 0.6 per cent larger

UBS has reported the biggest ever quarterly profit for a bank, after recording a $29bn gain linked to its takeover of Credit Suisse. The Swiss lender announced the figures on Thursday as it said it would press ahead with absorbing Credit Suisse’s domestic business despite local and political opposition to a deal expected to result

UK house sales are on track for their slowest year in more than a decade, as higher mortgage rates and inflation hit the purchasing power of prospective homebuyers. Some 1mn houses are set to be sold in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland this year, down one-fifth on 2022 and the lowest figure since 2012,

UK foreign secretary James Cleverly has hit back at Conservative party critics ahead of a visit to Beijing this week, warning that failure to engage with China would be a sign of British “weakness”. Cleverly told the Financial Times he would tell his hosts on Wednesday that Britain welcomed Chinese investment provided it did not