Post-election rally for US stocks stalls after inflation data (www.ft.com)

FirstFT: Xi Jinping set to inaugurate South America’s ‘made in China’ megaport (www.ft.com)

Reeves to force UK council pensions to consolidate into eight ‘megafunds’ (www.ft.com)

Trump picks Matt Gaetz as attorney-general (www.ft.com)

Israeli right celebrates hawkish Trump government picks (www.ft.com)

The Trump challenge for Europe (www.ft.com)

Harris ditched Joe Rogan interview over progressive backlash fears (www.ft.com)

John Thune wins Senate leadership election in rebuke to Trump allies (www.ft.com)

Assisted dying would be funded ‘at expense of’ NHS services, warns Streeting (www.ft.com)

Pete Hegseth: US army veteran, Fox News firebrand and now defence secretary nominee (www.ft.com)

UK to retain post-Brexit French school trips scheme (www.ft.com)

RWE’s lean away from green should satisfy the sceptics (www.ft.com)

Homebase falls into administration putting 2,000 jobs at risk (www.ft.com)

Milei eyes Trump friendship to win IMF loan (www.ft.com)

Roméo et Juliette — slick but empty gestures in Berlin staging (www.ft.com)

Bitcoin’s big bang moment is impossible to ignore (www.ft.com)

Can ‘mainstream media’ survive the second Trump era? (www.ft.com)

Rachel Reeves might come to rue her ‘read my lips’ moment (www.ft.com)

US inflation rose to 2.6% in October (www.ft.com)