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Global tax truce frays over fears of US senate deadlock

Champions of digital taxes take unilateral steps after losing faith in OECD-backed treaty

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US millionaires support Biden’s plan to tax super-wealthy, poll shows

Oil & Gas industry

The Big Read. The giant Exxon project that could create the world’s last petrostate

Editor's picks

The price of petrol may still pose problems for Biden

An electoral battle for the supply side

Top stories

Japanese equities rise to defy US tech sell-off

Live

WikiLeaks founder Assange expected to be freed in US plea deal

Agreement would end long-running legal saga over one of biggest releases of classified materials in US history

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Chinese companies seek assurances from Malaysia on avoiding US tariffs

Mainland groups have shifted production to south-east Asia in order to export to America

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Ukraine to start EU accession talks

Symbolic step comes a decade after Euromaidan protests sought to put country firmly on pro-western path

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Spotlight

Isis: the threat that never went away

Brutal jihadist group once again seeking to launch attacks internationally

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Fusion delusion? BBVA confronts risk of Sabadell deal falling short

Spanish bank insists it can extract synergies from €10bn takeover even if Madrid blocks a merger

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News

Nvidia share slide erases more than $550bn in market value

Chipmaker’s shares have fallen 16% since Thursday, ending brief stint as world’s most valuable company last week

The Big Read. Can Nvidia stay at the heart of the new AI economy?

Artificial intelligence

Political deepfakes top list of malicious AI use, DeepMind finds

Artificial intelligence is used more to create realistic but fake celebrity images than to assist cyber attacks, Google unit says

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JPMorgan Chase & Co

JPMorgan brings in over $15bn from wealthy clients looking to cut tax bills

US bank is seeking to take share of business from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley

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Aerospace & Defence

US defence industry faces uncertainty despite production ‘boomlet’

Orders surge but companies say sustainable growth needs longer-term funding

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Brazilian economy

Lula’s spending plans turn heat on Brazilian markets

Stocks and currency have fallen amid concerns over ‘unsustainable’ model for eliminating budget deficit

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English Premier League clubs forecast to post record collective revenues

Teams expect to benefit from changes to European competitions, higher ticket prices and stadium capacity

In charts: Iran’s economic pain as voters head to polls

Presidential election comes as Iranians face cost of living crisis — even much-derided ‘coffin’ car is unaffordable for many

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Abu Dhabi National Oil Co

Adnoc’s long Covestro chase set to achieve Europe’s largest takeover of year

UAE oil company’s lengthy courtship and sweetened €14.4bn bid key to overcoming German chemical group’s reluctance

Kenya engulfed by youth-led protests against tax hikes

Nairobi’s plan to increase government revenue has been met with public anger

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Haiti to receive first Kenyan officers in mission to quell gang violence

UK general election 2024

Sunak defends handling of election-betting scandal

PM stands by decision not to suspend two Tory candidates being probed while another calls party a ‘shower of shit’

Goldman Sachs Group

Goldman Sachs names Hess chief to its board as it guides oil company sale

Wall Street firm stands to make $80mn if deal to sell group to Chevron survives ExxonMobil challenge

Opinion

Inside Business. Singapore’s ‘Fomo’ amid the rise of the AI data centre

Like many other countries it has underestimated how demand is going to expand in coming years

The eternal lure of the tax-like policy

Governments find it hard to resist the temptation of anything that means they don’t have to levy more on voters

Low migration risks an economic doom loop for the UK

Jonathan Portes

France could trigger the next euro crisis

Outlook. Building blocks are laid for Detroit’s architectural renaissance

The FT View. The trust deficit in Britain’s damaged politics

The editorial board

The absence of honesty in UK election will undermine democracy itself

How to fix fast fashion

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US News

Pringles packaging maker buys Eviosys for $4bn in rare buyout windfall

Sale by KPS comes as dealmakers have struggled to exit a growing stockpile of ageing investments

HPS amasses $21bn private credit fund as it plots expansion

Mission to support fragile democracies steps up US election monitoring

TikTok advertisers prepare contingency plans as US ban looms

US biotech Alnylam hails positive trial results for heart disease drug

Amazon, the NFL and the Post: Bezos’s plans for Washington hit trouble

Biden’s flagship hydrogen project faces growing opposition

Podcasts

Money Clinic with Claer Barrett. What will the UK election mean for your money?

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FT News Briefing. UK’s wealthy foreigners look for the exits

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The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes. Does pay transparency work? With Zoe Cullen and Pilita Clark

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Life and Art from FT Weekend. Books that help with election anxiety

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Review. No One Left by Paul Morland — why demography is still destiny

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FT Globetrotter. Allez les Jeux! A sporting tour of Paris

Boswells, Oxford’s 280-year-old department store, is reborn as a hotel

HTSI. 2024’s best sunscreens

Review. The best books of 2024 so far — picked by FT readers

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Highlights

Mining’s push for gender diversity threatened by ‘Andrew Tate’ effect

Progress for women in a historically male sector is at risk from anti-woke backlash, say leaders

FT investigation finds Ukrainian children on Russian adoption sites

Silent lay-offs are rarely as quiet as bosses hope

In charts: the legacy of 14 years of Conservative rule

Working It. How to fix your hybrid work mess

Meetings in the metaverse: new tech draws workers to virtual offices

The Big Read. Meloni and Le Pen: the relationship at the heart of European politics

Technology

Privacy fears sap potential of female fertility tech start-ups

US 2022 abortion ruling has heightened concerns over the safety of women’s healthcare trackers

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Inside Business. Singapore’s ‘Fomo’ amid the rise of the AI data centre

San Francisco Fed president says tech heads can help city avoid ‘doom loop’

Disrupted Times. Brussels turns up the heat on Big Tech

Getir set for break-up and Mubadala cash injection

Moral Money. Do public benefit corporations live up to the hype?

Lex. Prosus is earning its billing as the other SoftBank

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