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Apple profits rise as services arm surpasses 1bn users

Tech giant’s revenue down 1% to $81.8bn for quarter in third straight decline

Amazon’s online sales lift earnings and send shares higher

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Bank of England

Andrew Bailey’s medicine finally appears to be working

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Top stories

German manufacturing ‘suffering’ despite boost from big-ticket orders

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Markets Briefing. Stocks edge higher as bond sell-off calms

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Maersk forecasts long and deep contraction in global trade

Container shipping group says companies are still cutting inventories

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Hedge funds lose $6bn betting against cruise lines and hotels

Shares in Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Airbnb have surged as consumers keep spending

UK estate agents build up lettings as homes sales boom ends

Rental demand bolsters profits hit by downturn in market caused by rising rates

Spotlight

Diageo vs Diddy spat exposes risks of celebrity deals

Accusations fly ahead of hearing to establish whether case between drinks giant and rapper should proceed to trial

Undercover Economist. The inconvenient truth about productivity

You’ll never clear the decks. Just do the best you with the time allotted to you

News

Donald Trump pleads not guilty in 2020 US election case

Former president has remained defiant despite third indictment against him this year

Rachman Review. Will Donald Trump end up in prison or the White House?

Tiger Global builds big Apollo stake in shift from tech bets

Chase Coleman’s hedge fund also makes investments in aerospace and healthcare

Apollo chief warns private equity industry ‘in retreat’ as rates rise

UK infrastructure

Pay UK households to accept new power lines, report urges

Move could help ease resistance to network projects in drive to wean country off fossil fuels, adviser says

UK ‘absolutely committed’ to net zero, says Shapps

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‘He drank all my whisky’: Romania wrestles with trespassing bears

Bucharest faces growing calls for bigger hunting quotas to protect property and livestock from country’s 8,000 wild bears

Newspaper industry

Holger Friedrich, the newspaper owner who says stay away from journalists

East German entrepreneur has been engulfed by a string of controversies since buying historic Berliner Zeitung

KKR in talks to buy publisher Simon & Schuster for more than $1.6bn

WPP cuts revenue forecast as US spending slows

Ad agency lowers guidance as tech companies reduce marketing spend

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Saudi-hosted conference seeks to build support for Ukrainian peace plan

Kyiv steps up efforts to engage key developing countries in isolating Moscow

Russia requested munitions from North Korea, says US

Britons paid record £16.7bn in capital gains tax in 2021-22

Rising asset values and more house sales provided boost for HMRC, official figures reveal

HMRC under fire from small businesses over cuts to phone services

UK politics & policy

Khan widens London car scrappage scheme but stands by Ulez

Capital’s mayor reacts to by-election backlash with extra £50mn for getting heavier-polluting vehicles off roads

Mergers & Acquisitions

Chinese deal activity in US slumps to lowest level in 17 years

Geopolitical tensions and national security issues curb enthusiasm for merger and acquisition investments

China crams for World Bank business survey

US jobs growth forecast to hit lowest level since 2020

Data expected to show that the labour market is cooling after months of interest rate rises

Opinion

There is political logic to Fitch’s downgrading of US debt

A divided Congress is in no position to tackle America’s serious fiscal problems

New superconductor frenzy seems too super to be true

Scepticism has built around initial reports that LK-99 might prove to be a transformative discovery

Courting Middle Eastern autocrats won’t solve Europe’s refugee crisis

The FT View. The Bank of England walks a tightrope

The editorial board

Inside Business. The aftermath of Silicon Valley’s ugliest decade

Lex. Novo Nordisk/obesity drugs: bullish forecasts will override side effect fears

You don’t become a science superpower without taking care of the basics

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Interview. Wizz Air chief hails ‘capitalist spirit’ behind £100mn bonus package extension

József Váradi tells FT ‘common sense prevailed’ after significant number of investors rebel at shareholders’ meeting

Fine banks that blacklist customers for political views, says UK chancellor

UK discount retailer Wilko on the brink of collapse

New diagnostic centres to boost NHS testing capacity in England

Savers sell investments to meet rising mortgage costs

UK ordered to apologise to academic over alleged torture in UAE

Climate activists arrested after scaling Sunak’s roof in oil protest

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FT Weekend podcast. David Byrne on Talking Heads and ‘Here Lies Love’

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