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Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is planning the biggest shake-up to Individual Savings Accounts in years to persuade more people to take advantage of the tax-free vehicles and use them to back London-listed companies. UK

Receive free UK economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK economy news every morning. UK economic activity has fallen at the fastest pace since January 2021, according to a closely watched survey that suggests the chances of a recession have increased. With service sector activity weakening, the

Receive free UK business updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK business news every morning. The UK car industry will still have to meet mandatory electric vehicle sales targets from January, according to people briefed on the upcoming government rules, despite ministers pushing back a ban on petrol

Receive free UK inflation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK inflation news every morning. UK inflation was lower than expected in August, falling to 6.7 per cent from 6.8 per cent in July, rather than increasing on the back of higher petrol costs. The drop in almost

Receive free Canada updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Canada news every morning. Canada’s prime minister has said there are “credible allegations” that India’s government was involved in the fatal shooting of a prominent Sikh leader in British Columbia, citing intelligence from national security services. Justin Trudeau on

Western companies that have continued to operate in Russia since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine have generated billions of dollars in profits, but the Kremlin has blocked them from accessing the cash in an effort to turn the screw on “unfriendly” nations. Groups from such countries accounted for $18bn of the $20bn in Russian profits

Receive free Share buybacks updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Share buybacks news every morning. Share buybacks on the US stock market have dropped to the slowest pace since the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic as rising interest rates undermine the incentive for companies to purchase their

Russia has authorised unreinforced oil tankers to sail through its icy Northern Sea Route for the first time, triggering warnings Moscow is risking a catastrophic Arctic spill as it reroutes sanctions-hit energy exports to Asia. Two tankers were granted permission in August to carry out the 3,500-mile long journey along Russia’s northern coast, despite not

Receive free Chinese politics & policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese politics & policy news every morning. The US government believes Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu has been placed under investigation in the latest sign of turmoil among elite members of Beijing’s military and foreign policy

Receive free Arm Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arm Ltd news every morning. Shares in UK chip designer Arm are expected to be priced above the initial range at as much as $52 per share, which would give the company a valuation of nearly $54bn, according

BP chief executive Bernard Looney is to resign less than four years into the job, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. Looney, 53, joined BP in 1991 aged 21 and has spent his entire career at the company. The Irish citizen was appointed chief executive in 2020 to transform the oil producer

The world is at “the beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era, according to the leading global energy watchdog, which for the first time has forecast that demand for oil, natural gas and coal will all peak before 2030. New projections by the International Energy Agency forecast that the consumption of the three

Janet Yellen has rejected accusations that the G20 watered down its position on Ukraine over the weekend, as the US treasury secretary touted the summit of world leaders’ accomplishments in boosting funding for developing economies. In an interview with the Financial Times, Yellen defended the joint statement agreed at the end of the summit in

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

The US and EU are set to support the development of a new ship and rail corridor connecting India to the Middle East and beyond — an infrastructure project crossing Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that could challenge China’s economic clout in the region. The plan is expected to be launched on Saturday

Germany is pushing the European Commission to postpone tariffs on electric vehicle sales between the UK and the EU after industry warned that the measure would backfire. In a boost for Rishi Sunak’s government, Berlin now supports the UK’s calls for a three-year delay to the duties, two people familiar with the situation said. At

China’s exports fell 8.8 per cent in August compared with a year earlier, marking their fourth consecutive month of decline in another hit for the ailing manufacturing sector in the world’s second-largest economy. The August contraction was less severe than a forecast fall of 9.2 per cent, according to analysts polled by Reuters, and better than

Britain’s aviation regulator will launch an independent review into the failure of the air traffic control system over the August bank holiday that grounded hundreds of aircraft and left thousands of passengers stranded. The review by the Civil Aviation Authority comes after an interim report by the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) found that a

Apple and Microsoft, the most valuable companies in the US, have argued some of their flagship services are insufficiently popular to be designated “gatekeepers” under landmark new EU legislation designed to curb the power of Big Tech. Brussels’ battle with Apple over its iMessage chat app and Microsoft’s search engine Bing comes ahead of Wednesday’s

Chinese lenders stepped in to extend billions of dollars to Russian banks as western institutions pulled back their operations in the country during the first year of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The moves by four of China’s biggest banks are part of Beijing’s efforts to promote the renminbi as an alternative global currency to the