December 4, 2023
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Inflation is coming down fast. After 18 months of painful price growth, data over the autumn months across the US and Europe has been better than expected. Annual eurozone inflation in November fell to 2.4
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Inflation’s sharp slowdown across advanced economies has created a stand-off between markets and central banks over when borrowing costs will edge lower. To one side are central bankers warning it is too early to do a victory dance in their fight for stable prices, while on the other investors are already celebrating by betting on
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Receive free Eurozone inflation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Eurozone inflation news every morning. Luis de Guindos has dismissed talk of rate cuts by the European Central Bank as “premature”, warning that hurdles over “the last mile” of bringing inflation back to rate-setters’ 2 per cent target
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Nashawn Breedlove, an underground rapper who famously battled Eminem in “8 Mile” (2002), has died. The skilled emcee, known onstage as both Lotto and Ox, reportedly died Sunday in his sleep at home in New Jersey. He was 46 years old. “It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of my beloved
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Bob Seaman, a former UCLA track star who became one of the first Americans to run a sub-four-minute mile, died Monday at his home in Wilmington of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 88. In 1956, Seaman set a UCLA record by running the mile in 4:01.4, the second-fastest mile in United States history at
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Every scientist dreams of making a great discovery. A eureka moment when all the signs point to a conclusion that breaks new ground, that potentially changes everything. I believe I had such a moment this week, when a team of scientists I led revealed their preliminary analysis of 700 extraordinary fragments recovered from a 2014
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Paul Bearman and Tammy Rittenour. Birman is a Research Fellow at the Gund Institute for the Environment and Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. University of Vermont. Rittenour is Professor of Earth Sciences and Director of the Luminescence Laboratory. Utah State University. Originally posted on Talk. About 400,000 years ago most of Greenland was
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Scientists have warned that a massive fissure tore through Africa will split the continent in two and form Earth’s sixth ocean. The countries along the southeast coast would turn into a giant island, creating an entirely new sea from Ethiopia to Mozambique. The so-called East African Rift was formed at least 22 million years ago,
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COLUMBUS, Ohio: Evan Burroughs spent eight years touting the virtues of Oregon’s pilot program charging motorists for the distance traveled by their car rather than gas mileage, but his own mother still hasn’t agreed. Margaret Burroughs, 85, said she wasn’t going to stick a tracking device in her Nissan Murano to record the miles she
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Are these the biggest races per mile in South Africa in decades? A lively debate has erupted over the rankings of Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge over 1600m at Greyville, though everyone agrees with head coach Mike de Kock that it’s “a hell of a race.” De Kock saddled the four-year-old Safe Passage, one of last
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