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Receive free Cboe Global Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Cboe Global Markets news every morning. The chief executive of Cboe Global Markets has resigned after failing to disclose personal relationships with colleagues. Edward Tilly, who has been at Cboe for 35 years, “did not disclose personal

Receive free Hedge funds updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Hedge funds news every morning. A build-up of leveraged bets has the potential to “dislocate” trading in the $25tn US Treasuries market, the umbrella group for central banks said, the latest high-profile warning over the potential for crowded

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

Receive free SoftBank Group Corp updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest SoftBank Group Corp news every morning. SoftBank is on the hunt for deals in artificial intelligence, including a potential investment in OpenAI, after the blockbuster listing of UK chip designer Arm bolstered Masayoshi Son’s multibillion-dollar war chest.

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 European Central Bank updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest European Central Bank news every morning. The European Central Bank has raised interest rates to an all-time high in a bid to cool consumer prices, despite faltering growth in the eurozone. The ECB’s knife-edge decision to lift

US inflation exceeded forecasts in August after fuel prices rose, but underlying price pressures eased. The headline rate of consumer prices rose 3.7 per cent year on year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.2 per cent in July and higher than consensus forecasts of 3.6 per cent. On a monthly basis,

UK wages grew at the fastest pace on record in the three months to July, despite a weaker jobs market in which unemployment rose and hiring slowed, official data showed on Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics said annual growth in average pay, excluding bonuses, remained at 7.8 per cent — the highest rate since

A British parliamentary researcher accused of working for Beijing has denied all spying allegations levelled against him. Speaking through Birnberg Peirce, the law firm representing him, the researcher said he felt “forced to respond to the media accusations that I am a ‘Chinese spy’”. “Given what has been reported, it is vital that it is

India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has called for the mandate of multilateral lenders such as the World Bank to be expanded, as the IMF’s managing director demanded an increase in the lender’s resources by the end of the year. Efforts to boost the balance sheets and reform the governance of the Washington-based multilateral lenders have

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 UK’s plans to develop cleaner energy have suffered a major blow after the government failed to attract offshore wind developers to its latest round of contracts for new projects. No offshore wind projects won contracts in this year’s annual auction for subsidies, according to results published on Friday, after developers had warned that the

UK businesses expect inflation and wage growth to ease, according to a closely watched monthly survey by the Bank of England, providing some relief for policymakers ahead of the interest rate decision later this month. Output prices are expected to increase by 4.9 per cent over the next 12 months, according to August’s Decision Maker

Receive free Universal Music Group updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Universal Music Group news every morning. Universal Music has struck a deal to reshape the economics of music streaming, with changes aimed at directing more money to professional musicians and away from a “sea of noise” that

Arm plans to price its initial public offering at between $47 and $51 per share, according to an updated filing on Tuesday, raising up to $4.9bn for its current owner SoftBank and valuing the UK-based chip designer at up to $52bn. Cornerstone investors including Apple, Google, Nvidia, Intel and TSMC have indicated they plan to

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

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Britain’s economic performance since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic was much better than previously thought, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday as revised figures added nearly 2 per cent to the size of the economy. The changes mean that by the end of 2021, the UK economy was 0.6 per cent larger

Receive free UK house prices updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK house prices news every morning. UK house prices contracted at the fastest annual pace since 2009 in August as the impact of higher interest rates hit the property market, according to the mortgage provider Nationwide. The

UBS has reported the biggest ever quarterly profit for a bank, after recording a $29bn gain linked to its takeover of Credit Suisse. The Swiss lender announced the figures on Thursday as it said it would press ahead with absorbing Credit Suisse’s domestic business despite local and political opposition to a deal expected to result