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Starmer tells Xi UK wants more ‘sophisticated’ relationship with China
Two leaders meet in Beijing as both sides seek improved relations
Could AI make — rather than take — jobs?
Public attention is focused on possible AI job losses, but history tells us that new tech usually generates jobs too
Tesla scraps models in pivot to AI as annual revenue falls for first time
Elon Musk’s electric-car maker invests $2bn in the billionaire’s xAI
A century on, how has financial literacy evolved?
Patrick Jenkins, deputy editor and chair of FT’s financial literacy charity, finds basics unchanged
It’s time we had a proper debate about funding university education
Changes to student loans have, in effect, privatised undergraduate teaching in England
Lloyds profits surge as push to boost smaller business lines pays off
Lender’s pre-tax profits rose 12% to £6.7bn last year
Blackstone lines up ‘one of largest IPO pipelines in history’
Private capital group’s president Jonathan Gray tells the FT: ‘The deal environment feels like it has hit escape velocity’
St James’s Place booked £22bn in new business as investors braced for Budget
UK wealth manager’s net inflows climbed as investors sought to shield themselves against potential tax changes
Crisis and fashion collide at Paris couture
The world is in chaos. Can exquisite clothes that take hundreds of hours to make offer any respite?
Sundance Film Festival 2026 — a heady mix of sex comedy, art-world satire and American communists
The event bids farewell to Utah with the fizz of clashing couples in ‘The Invite’ and documentaries tuned into the strangeness of our times
GE Vernova thinks data centres could lower utility bills — eventually
Also in today’s newsletter, data shows how utilities are trying to push up bills
Christo and Jeanne-Claude dreamt up the world’s largest sculpture — will it ever be made?
The late artists’ desert masterpiece is unrealised half a century after it was conceived, its execution a daunting responsibility
The prisoner of Downing Street
The smell of death is descending on a directionless government
Ocado suffers blow as Canadian partner shuts distribution centre
Move follows Kroger’s decision to close its warehouses run on the UK retail technology group’s platforms
Tesla lurches into the Musk robotics era
Future of the company lies in equipping and running a global fleet of driverless taxis and in selling humanoid robots
Microsoft’s AI spending and disappointing cloud growth overshadow strong profits
Revenue rises 17% to a record $81bn, but 66% surge in capital expenditures revives debate about returns on vast AI costs
3i shares surge as PE group hails recovery at retailer Action
Partners at London-listed investor have made fortunes from the retailer, which accounts for four-fifths of its portfolio
Oil climbs above $70 as US-Iran tensions rise
Prices increase almost 3% this week as Donald Trump hails ‘beautiful armada’ targeting regime
Big tech’s $680bn buy-now-book-later problem
Don’t believe the hyperscalers; it takes depreciation of billions to hold them back
SAP set for biggest fall in five years amid concerns over cloud business
Shares fall 15% as Europe’s largest software company says cloud revenue growth will ‘slightly decelerate’
Fed will be on hold until mid-year
Read the January forecast from the FT’s Monetary Policy Radar team
EasyJet chief blasts EU’s ‘lunatic’ cabin bag proposals
Warning over delays and higher ticket prices come as winter losses widen
Deutsche Bank reports record quarterly profits
Currency and bond trading help drive earnings at German lender