Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Italian prosecutors are investigating charges of manslaughter and “negligent shipwreck” over the sinking of a superyacht in bad weather in which UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and six others died. Ambrogio Cartosio,…

New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol won’t be a constant presence at its Seattle headquarters where he takes the helm next month. Instead, he’s going to commute weekly from his California home. The setup was revealed last week in Niccol’s offer letter, which is giving him a “small remote office” at…

A little over a year ago, Lucas Ntsipe promised his chief executive William Lamb that he would produce something special out of the Karowe mine in a remote part of Botswana. On Monday morning, the 52-year-old assistant general manager of Canadian diamond miner Lucara delivered. “I got a call from…

A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. If elected this fall, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff will usher in many “firsts” in American history. Among them: The first White House couple to have worked at McDonald’s.…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The bodies of UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and four of his guests on the superyacht Bayesian have been recovered, three days after it sank off the coast of Sicily, according to…

US job growth during much of the past year was significantly weaker than initially estimated, according to new data released Wednesday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary annual benchmark review of employment data suggests that there were 818,000 fewer jobs in March of this year than were initially reported. Every…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Mexico’s federal judges walked out of their courtrooms on Wednesday to protest against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan to fire them and have their replacements elected in an overhaul they say…

Wells Fargo is set to sell the majority of its commercial mortgage servicing business to global loan services provider Trimont, the companies said Tuesday. The move would make Trimont the largest loan servicer in the US industry, according to rankings from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Wells Fargo’s deal to sell off its…

Clifford Chance litigator Christopher Morvillo wrote his first LinkedIn post in June, to celebrate the acquittal of his client Mike Lynch after a 12-year legal battle. “I am so glad to be home”, Morvillo wrote, signing off: “And they all lived happily ever after . . . ”That turned out to be one of…

The shape of the US labor market is changing, job growth is slowing and new survey data released Monday shows that Americans are starting to feel increasingly unsettled about it all. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest survey on consumers’ labor market experiences and expectations showed that job,…