Special edition: Wall Street’s wild week
Inside the tumult at Situational Awareness and Fifa abandons its World Cup deal
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026Situational Awareness got the future right but misread the past
Leopold Aschenbrenner thought AI-related stocks would go one way; they went the other. The mistake was funding the trades with debt
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026Higher earners warned over taper tax trap on pensions
Surge in savers hit by pension tax charges due to complex rules, say wealth managers
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026Is Lloyds Bank’s techie boss a secret AI contrarian?
The possibility of consumers delegating financial tasks to agentic AI poses a new risk for lenders
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026How the West End’s landlords are preparing London for Saudi summers
Redesign of the capital’s squares and buildings for a future of more heat and floods
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026EU ministers to discuss Spain’s migrant crisis after Sánchez hits out over criticism
Bloc’s home affairs ministers will convene on Tuesday as tensions over immigration policy mount
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026Infantino’s U-turn fuels doubts about his future at Fifa
The president of football’s governing body was expected to stand for re-election unopposed, but now criticism is mounting
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026Fifa abandons $20bn investment plan after global backlash
Uefa says it has lost confidence in Infantino’s leadership after climbdown
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026Fifa abandons $20bn investment plan after global backlash
Gianni Infantino said it was ‘clear’ that stake sale project had created divisions and he hoped to reunite ‘interested parties’
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026How Fifa’s proposal to open up the global game to investors unfolded — and invited a backlash that could yet topple its controversial president
Posted on Saturday August 01, 2026