Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.European banks and fund managers have urged Brussels to publicly commit to shortening the window for settling EU stock and bond trades, as the US and UK press on with plans to…

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled new proposals targeting Black men as she seeks to strengthen her coalition ahead of Election Day. The announcement comes as Harris lags behind President Joe Biden’s numbers with Black voters in 2020, especially men, though recent polling suggests she has room to grow.…

“Evaluating your life through the lens of your death is raw, powerful, and perhaps a bit scary,” writes author and entrepreneur, Shane Parrish, in his excellent book, Clear Thinking. But despite our hesitation to consider our inevitable demise, he thinks it’s worth exploring because, “What matters most becomes clear.” Clarity…

While China’s property development giants find their footing amid the ongoing real estate slump, several analysts have their sights on housing transaction and services platform KE Holdings . Listed in the U.S. under the ticker “BEKE,” the company is known in Mandarin Chinese as Beike and operates the Lianjia platform…

SpaceX launched its fifth test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday and made a dramatic first catch of the rocket’s more than 20-story tall booster.The achievement marks a major milestone toward SpaceX’s goal of making Starship a fully reusable rocket system.Elon Musk’s company launched Starship at 8:25 a.m. ET…

Sunday marks one month since members of the International Association of Machinists began their strike against Boeing. The cost: nearly $5 billion, according to a new analysis by Anderson Economic Group, shared exclusively with CNN. That multi-billion-dollar tab highlights the difficulties facing the aircraft maker, once a byword for American…

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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.China’s deflationary pressures picked up in September with weaker than expected consumer and factory prices, underlining calls for Beijing to deliver a bigger package of measures to lift the economy.The softer data…

If former President Donald Trump returns to the White House, tariffs will once again play a major role in his policy agenda. Trump has repeatedly said he plans to impose an across-the-board tariff of either 10% or 20% on every import coming into the US, as well as a tariff…

This year’s hurricane season brought a stark reminder that nobody is safe from the traumatic impacts of severe weather. Hurricane Helene brought devastating once-in -1000 years flooding to part of Appalachia considered relatively safe from those effects. In fact, Asheville, NC, was called a “climate haven” before the hurricane. Hurricane…