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Image courtesy: Dubai Media Office/ X A fire that broke out late Friday in a 67-storey residential tower in Dubai’s Marina district has been brought under control, the Dubai Media Office (DMO) said on Saturday. Dubai Civil Defence teams worked for six hours to extinguish the blaze, evacuating all 3,820 residents from the building’s 764 apartments without any reported injuries, according to DMO. Authorities confirmed that all residents had been safely evacuated and the situation was under control. Dubai Civil Defence teams successfully extinguished the fire within six hours in a 67-storey building in the Marina area, after ensuring the…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Regardless of ideological parti pris, politicians have an uncanny knack of misconstruing the dynamics of the financial services sector as they seek to bend it to their cause. Consider, first, UK Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves who, like her Tory predecessor Jeremy Hunt, wants more growth-friendly financial regulation, a demand widely echoed by policymakers around the world.Reeves and Hunt have also urged UK pension funds to allocate more capital to growth opportunities in domestic private markets. Both join in the global hand-wringing over…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The dappled June sun is peaking through the conference room blinds. The muffled sound of laughter on the street can just be perceived through the hum of the air conditioning. You, meanwhile, are trapped listening to Stuart from Compliance drone through his 16th slide of the meeting. Is there anything worse? I’ll wait. It doesn’t have to be like this: take it outside with a walking meeting.This is not the impromptu “walk with me!” aside that Very Busy People must do in…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Despite repeated predictions that the rise of mobile platforms, cloud gaming and high-performance PCs would make consoles obsolete, Nintendo has proved that hardware still matters. The record-breaking debut of the Switch 2 has reset the narrative.Nintendo had a target of selling 15mn units of its new console by March next year. Yet in just four days, the Japanese gaming company sold more than 3.5mn units of the $450 Switch 2, its strongest launch on record. The momentum is notable for a hybrid…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The author has written several books about the City and Wall StreetAccording to the law of financial cycles, a rule invented by the veteran City journalist Christopher Fildes, disasters happen when the final person able to remember the last one has retired. It is an aphorism that the board of NatWest might consider as they plan for a future newly free of state ownership.NatWest is the rebranded name for RBS, which took it over in 2000. The enlarged bank embarked on a…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Automobiles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The writer is a racing driver and presenter of the TV series ‘Fifth Gear’“What’s a clutch?” asked my 10-year-old. I swallowed an expletive and remained tactfully silent. This seemingly mystical element of a car is the bit that connects the third pedal in the footwell to the engine via that most sacred of parts, revered by all petrolheads — the manual gearbox.It’s more magic wand than stick. It can be tall, short, round or square, and made of metal, carbon fibre, wood or all…
Beating inflation in retirement was the top concern on a pensions webinar Q&A that I hosted last week. And so it should be. Everyone needs their hard-earned nest egg to keep its value — and inflationary pressures have not gone away. Doug Brodie, founder of retirement planning firm Chancery Lane, calls inflation “the single biggest risk” to pensions.New figures released by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association show the “moderate” and “comfortable” retirement living standards, a rough guide to how much a retirement lifestyle might cost, have recorded marginal increases to £31,700 and £43,900. That is a concern for anyone who…
The owner of the UK’s biggest bioethanol plant has given the government two weeks to come up with a rescue package for the industry after the trade agreement with Donald Trump threatened to swamp the British market with 1.4bn litres of tariff-free ethanol.The ultimatum by ABF Sugar, which owns the £450mn Vivergo plant in Saltend, Hull, was issued following an emergency meeting this week with the UK business secretary Jonathan Reynolds and transport secretary Heidi Alexander.The owners said unless the government tabled a package to save the industry within two weeks, they would open consultations about making the plant’s 160…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldDonald Trump has approved Nippon Steel’s $14.9bn bid for US Steel after an agreement to settle national security concerns swayed the US president into backing the takeover.In a White House executive order issued on Friday, Trump approved the “historic partnership”, which comes with conditions including a golden share for the US government and a commitment to invest $11bn by 2028.The deal’s approval caps 17 months of twists and turns since Japan’s largest steelmaker agreed a deal to buy its US…