London ambulances set on fire in suspected antisemitic incident
Police treating arson attack on vehicles belonging to charity organisation in north London as a hate crime
Gilts: blame the hedge funds?
No one’s doing it like the Brits
Nscale’s credit history (slightly chipped)
Defaults in their start
Wall Street’s big private capital problem
Plus, Victory boosts bid for Janus, private capital’s financing wheeze and Giant hits Broadway
EU to clinch trade deal with Australia after eight years of talks
Also in this newsletter: Greek shipowner questions EU sanctions on Russia amid energy price rise
FTAV’s further reading
Inflation; inflation; Picasso; introspection; stocks; fitness; DOGE; rap; headlines; humiliations; Googling
China battery trio gain $70bn as Iran war sparks ‘paradigm shift’
Share price rises for clean energy companies outstrip oil majors as investors bet on switch to renewables
FirstFT: Stocks fall on Trump’s Iran ultimatum
Also in today’s newsletter: European elections and EU migration
The best of TV and streaming this week
‘The Other Bennet Sister’ riffs on ‘Pride and Prejudice’; ‘Jury Duty: Company Retreat’ is a chaotic workplace comedy; Michelle Pfeiffer leads ‘The Madison’. Reviews by Rebecca Nicholson
Transcript: Strait of Hormuz crisis poses fresh threat to global food, energy
Victoria Craig speaks to Joe Daniels and Jamie Smyth
Qatar Airways parks long-haul jets in storage in Spain
Transfer of planes to Teruel airport signals airline is preparing for ongoing Gulf conflict
Danish PM rides Trump Greenland row into election resurgence
Standing up to US president has boosted Mette Frederiksen’s chances of winning third term
Trump’s Iran playbook was written in the 1980s
From oil threats to ultimatums, the US president has a decades-old view of how to confront Tehran
Starmer to bring forward EU rules legislation in King’s Speech
Some Labour officials hope bill will provoke Brexit dispute with Tories and Reform UK
London police chief warns of ‘sustained threat’ from Iranian state plots
Mark Rowley issues warning during US visit and also accuses ‘hostile states’ of spreading false claims that UK capital is unsafe
America keeps bailing out Trump
The country’s underlying strengths are absorbing his erratic choices, including the war on Iran
The Shakespearean animus of Botín and Orcel
The Italian’s bid for Commerzbank may prove to be the final act in European banking’s rivalrous drama
BNP Paribas surges up UK M&A rankings
French bank boosted by deals including £9.9bn Schroders takeover
BTS, the world’s biggest boy band, return from military service with Arirang
The K-pop kings face a formidable new challenge — the prospect of middle age
Iran war is a risk to the flow of Gulf funds around the globe
World has come to depend on capital from the region more deeply than many realise
UK home insurers to lose money on underwriting in 2026, analysis predicts
Higher fuel and energy costs, along with wage and price pressures, will drive up claims costs, EY says
Oceans take in a lot of heat as Earth’s energy imbalance hits record
Rate of solar radiation stored in the planet has accelerated over past two decades
‘It’s always Putin’ behind every EU migration crisis, official says
Russian president is ‘biggest driver’ of immigration due to his role in wars over past decade, says EU commissioner
The ghost bankers haunting the City
Unable to leave the financial district, some senior staff appear to be working long after handing in their pass