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Jacques Marie Mage – Patti Smith’s favoured optical shop

The luxury eyewear house has landed in London

Smart designs for every occasion

Todd Blanche is the latest former member of the president’s personal legal team to snag a prestigious federal position

Also in today’s newsletter: SpaceX shares fall after maiden results and Trump administration revokes visa of Brazil’s ambassador

It was an uncertain place for ordinary people, where hunger was just a failed harvest away

Visualise possible routes to defeating contract — and then go for it!

Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled

Washington announces year-long ban on overseas sales of scrap tungsten and ‘black mass’

Prime minister’s opening devolution gambit does not lack ambition

Miner has long complained its London shares are undervalued

Japan’s headline and real wage growth were above expectations in June

Central bank’s rare push to repatriate savings has drawn stronger than expected inflows

Patriot interceptor stocks are depleted as retaliatory 40-day air campaign expires

Robin Wigglesworth talks to professor and author Kim Bowes

The case for active quantitative tightening is getting weaker

That’s the headline and we’re sticking to it

Tax avoidance; tax evasion; Kevin Warsh’s credibility; the Strait; Epstein’s banks; dogs on surfboards; and what survives of us

Zhongji Innolight and Eoptolink hit by report that Washington is drafting ban on optical transceivers

Victoria Craig speaks to Rafe Rosner-Uddin and Heba Saleh

Watch the latest episode from the FT podcast exploring the history of finance

An exodus of litigation partners expands the talent war beyond dealmakers

What has happened to the finances of Elon Musk’s rocket maker over the past three months is pretty irrelevant

Rate of UK chemical company closures doubled between 2020 and 2025, study finds

Appleby, once at the centre of offshore data leak, draws up list of potential investors