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Shares in Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems both tumbled on Monday as investors weighed the financial fallout from Friday’s mid-flight accident on an Alaska Airlines aircraft. US investigators announced on Sunday that they had located the door that blew out of the Boeing 737 Max during the flight. The incident prompted an emergency landing and
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Economists believe the US jobs market weakened in December, bolstering the case for the Federal Reserve to consider cutting interest rates. A poll by Reuters showed economists, on average, predict data published on Friday will
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran said two “terrorist attacks” killed more than 100 people near a commander’s grave on Wednesday, according to reports by state media. Two explosions in the southern city of Kerman hit crowds gathering to commemorate
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A senior Hamas leader has been killed in an explosion at one of the group’s offices in Beirut, an attack that Lebanon blamed on an Israeli drone strike.  Hizbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant movement, told
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Emerging market stock indices have underperformed the broad equity rally this year. They’ve lagged behind not only American, Japanese and continental European equities, but even UK stocks. In sterling terms they’ve barely broken even. With
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Global stock markets are set to record their strongest year since 2019 following a blistering two-month rally as investors bet that major central banks have finished raising interest rates and will cut them rapidly next year.
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nearly nine-tenths of the foreign money that flowed into China’s stock market in 2023 has already left, spurred by mounting doubts about Beijing’s willingness to take serious action to boost flagging growth. Since
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Central bankers are rethinking their approach to economic forecasting after their high-profile failures to spot the most recent inflationary outburst, as officials argue for greater candour with the markets about the uncertainties they are confronting.  The European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and other official forecasters failed to see how the
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