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Tuesday, 17 March 2026
 
 
 

Top Headlines from the UK Edition

 
 
 
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang predicts $1tn in AI chip revenue over 2 years
 
Chip group’s higher than expected sales forecast fails to boost share price
 
 
Donald Trump asks to postpone summit with China’s Xi Jinping due to Iran war
 
US president says he needs to remain in Washington because of the conflict in the Middle East
 
 
Angela Rayner aims to reassure investors with City charm offensive
 
Former UK deputy PM, who is favourite to succeed Sir Keir Starmer, hosted call with fund managers this month
 
 
Iran earns oil windfall as US turns blind eye
 
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says White House is prepared to tolerate the trade to avoid supply shortages
 
 
Why Hormuz will haunt us long after this war ends
 
Iran has shown that control of the strait gives it a stranglehold over the world economy
 
 
 

Top Headlines from the International Editions

 
 
 
Australia raises interest rates in big week for global central banks
 
Oil disruption deepens concern that price increases could hit economy
 
 
Hundreds feared dead in strike on Kabul hospital
 
Taliban blames Pakistan for attack that threatens to escalate neighbours’ conflict
 
 
Donald Trump says he will have the ‘honour’ of ‘taking Cuba in some form’
 
US president confirms discussions with communist island nation without sharing details
 
 
‘One day chicken, one day feathers’: why US shale producers are not cheering $100 oil
 
Independent operators are caught in the middle between Trump’s Iran war aims and his promise of low petrol prices
 
 
Wall St underestimates private capital problems, says top credit hedge fund
 
Davidson Kempner’s Tony Yoseloff warns a substantial portion of PE firms are already “stressed or distressed”
 
 
 

Markets

 
 
 
FT ranking: High-growth companies Asia-Pacific 2026
 
Malaysian ecommerce technology platform Borong tops eighth annual FT-Statista list
 
 
Cuba hit by nationwide blackout as energy grid collapses
 
‘Disconnection’ leaves 11mn without power in largest outage since US energy blockade began earlier this year
 
 
US diesel prices soar to almost $5 as Iran war pinches global supplies
 
Higher fuel costs will make it more expensive to transport goods and plant crops
 
 
EY executive takes another top post at US audit regulator
 
PCAOB board hires chief of staff from same Big Four firm where chair was an auditor
 
 
Trump’s coalition of the unwilling
 
US allies have a right to avoid being sucked into a war they never sought
 
 
 

Companies

 
 
 
British Airways cancels Dubai flights until summer
 
Airline axes services to UAE and other destinations hours after drone attack on Dubai’s main airport
 
 
Reeves to say she will back compulsory purchase powers for Oxford-Cambridge corridor
 
Chancellor will tell landowners they will not be allowed to stand in the way of the project
 
 
Yale padlock maker axes new CEO before he starts
 
Fortune Brands staves off proxy battle with asset manager set up by Trian co-founder Ed Garden
 
 
‘Millionaires’ factory’ Macquarie finds next lucrative target on its doorstep
 
Digital bank chips away at dominance of ‘Big Four’ retail lenders in Australia’s sleepy mortgage market
 
 
US says 2 of its 3 Gulf-based minesweepers are in Malaysia
 
Navy says ships are making a ‘logistical stop’ as Iran threatens shipping in Strait of Hormuz
 
 
 

Opinion

 
 
 
Orcel’s brash M&A tactics inch UniCredit closer to success
 
Few shareholders will accept the miserly offer for Commerzbank — but that doesn’t matter
 
 
Labour must not lose my generation of voters
 
The defeat by the Greens in Greater Manchester demonstrates the danger of failing to address economic burdens
 
 
AI world models need to understand cause and effect
 
They should be able to map how reality works, not just how it looks
 
 
Why Donald Trump is obsessed with this Chicago-based shoe label
 
The president may buy Florsheim’s cap-toe Oxfords for his cabinet members. But its parent company is suing his government over tariffs
 
 
What do we really gain from no-cry onions?
 
Frankensteining low-pungency vegetables is popular, but with food the longer way round is often more enjoyable
 
 
 

Work & Careers

 
 
 
Online MBA 2026
 
As generative AI comes of age, its use in online MBAs poses tough questions for business schools and students. Plus, the value of flexibility and why top athletes opt for remote learning
 
 
FT’s Online MBA ranking 2026: methodology, key and entry criteria
 
How the Online MBA ranking was compiled
 
 
UniCredit’s Andrea Orcel draws level with UBS chief Sergio Ermotti after record pay deal
 
Italian executive received €16.4mn pay package last year, a 24% rise from 2024
 
 
IE Business School seizes top spot in FT’s Online MBA ranking
 
The win marks IE’s fourth consecutive victory, ahead of Imperial in second and Warwick in third
 
 
AI poses risk of surge in cheating in online MBA programmes
 
Business schools are grappling with different ways to detect improper use of AI, and mulling new ways to assess students
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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