Greens leader Zack Polanski to stand in seat vacated by Starmer

Decision by leader of Green Party presents first electoral challenge for prime minister Andy Burnham

Shein shares slide as much as 10% on third day of trading

Falls may force Goldman Sachs to step in to stabilise price

Why does it even matter if SoftBank’s an investment holding company?

Bonds bonds bonds

Elliott builds stake in Deutsche Telekom and opposes T-Mobile US merger

Activist hedge fund wants German telecoms group to focus on ways to boost shareholder value

Yen strengthens as traders bet on Japan interest rate rises

Currency rises close to ¥156 to the dollar after sudden jump overnight

Crest Nicholson shares tumble as homebuilder warns of loss

UK group is battling weak demand and fallout from the Iran war

The Gentlemen season 2 — Guy Ritchie’s crime saga is rowdy, fast-food TV

The Netflix series embraces its cartoonishness as Theo James’s aristocratic drug dealer expands his empire into Europe

Alexia Genta: ‘You cannot kill ambition to protect the past’

LVMH’s revival of the celebrated watch designer’s brand Gérald Genta is taking shape around limited production and high-end collectors

More on the 60/40 portfolio

Unhedged readers weigh in, hard

Ireland strives for EU budget breakthrough as December deadline looms

Also in this newsletter: Kaja Kallas hits back against France and Germany

FTAV’s further reading

Slop vs society; Resorts International; celebrities vs society; data regimes; licence theft; payday loans; and NPCdom

FirstFT: KPMG warned Guggenheim unit over weak controls

Also in today’s newsletter: Dutch gold bars and Google ads

Transcript: Will Bessent’s ‘economic D-Day’ break Iran?

Sasha Polakow-Suransky talks to Stimson Center senior fellow Emma Ashford

Transcript: Uber teams up with driver unions to fight robotaxis

Sonja Hutson speaks to Malcolm Moore and Rafe Rosner-Uddin

US sailors roll into Thai resort after nine months at sea

USS Abraham Lincoln arrives after lengthy deployment that has become emblematic of Iran war’s strain on resources

Business School Debates

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The new rivalry on Wall Street

Competition is growing between banks and proprietary trading firms

James Orr and the gospel of the new British right

Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’

Netanyahu pushes to unite far-right vote before Israel election

Prime minister warns that infighting risks imperilling his rightwing bloc’s chances of re-election next month

‘Exit tax’ on UK entrepreneurs ruled out by business department

Jonathan Reynolds seeks to quell fears of levy on companies spun out of UK universities that move abroad

VodafoneThree to launch debut TV service in challenge to UK rivals

UK telecoms group hopes adding the TV platform will help it double its broadband business

Fixing the AI industry’s PR problem

Doomers will say it’s hopeless but here are five ideas to put out the fire

Gold’s run isn’t yet done

Fiscal burdens, sovereign buying and positive bond-equity correlation continue to support the precious metal