FT News Briefing

What ETFs mean for bitcoin

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

US President Joe Biden plans to send a high-level delegation to Taipei after the election in Taiwan on Saturday, the US Securities and Exchange Commis...

The scramble for a new EU leader

10 Jan 2024

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Chinese companies are resorting to chips repurposed from standard PC gaming products to develop artificial intelligence tools, and Charles Michel’s ...

Can Boeing get back on track?

09 Jan 2024

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Shares in Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems tumbled after a mid-flight accident, and tens of thousands of Afghan women and girls have been able t...

Football clubs are pouring billions into stadiums

08 Jan 2024

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A pile up of bad debt threatens to sour investors’ growing optimism about the prospects for the US’s largest banks, and European football clubs ar...

Local Chinese banks get a lifeline

05 Jan 2024

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One of the world’s top gold producers fired its chief executive for serious misconduct, Chinese provinces pumped a record $31bn of capital into frag...

Convertible bonds are so hot right now

04 Jan 2024

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Minutes from the December Federal Reserve meeting show that officials were committed to higher-for-longer interest rates, convertible bonds have been ...

BlackRock and Vanguard duke it out over ETF market

03 Jan 2024

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Russia has fired a second massive barrage of the new year on Ukraine’s capital and the country’s second-largest city, Benjamin Netanyahu’s right...

Markets, elections and AI in 2024

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The FT’s Peter Spiegel, Katie Martin and Elaine Moore preview what could happen in geopolitics, markets and artificial intelligence in 2024.The FT N...

From “What Next”: Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back?

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

FT News Briefing presents a special episode from Slate’s “What Next” podcast, hosted by Mary Harris. Everybody loves pandas—and China kno...

Superintelligent AI: can chatbots think?

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are generative AI systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT really intelligent? Large language models such as GPT 4 appear to use human-level cognitive abili...

Culture chat: ‘Napoleon’ with historian Simon Schama

27 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Sir Simon Schama and FT deputy arts editor and film expert Raph Abraham join Lilah to discuss the historical epic ‘Napoleon’. Ridley Sco...

Hot Money: The New Narcos

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look like an international assassination plot.For more...

The year of weight-loss drugs

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt raised the prospect of the Bank of England reducing interest rates in 2024 in an interview with the FT, and Novo Nordisk’s dr...

This bond market rally is epic

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A global rally in government debt has driven yields past many Wall Street targets for the end of 2024, and rising premiums in China are driving famili...

India’s digital transformation

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Copper is set to finish the year as the top-performing industrial metal, and the FT’s John Paul Rathbone recently visited a Hamas tunnel and talks a...

US Steel gets a new owner

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Activist investor Cevian Capital has taken a €1.2bn stake in UBS, and Nippon Steel has agreed to buy US Steel in a $14.9bn deal. Plus, the FT’s Jo...

A Chinese spy in Europe’s midst

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Corporate bankruptcies are increasing at double-digit rates in most advanced economies, and TSMC is going to play a huge role in Taiwan’s upcoming e...

UAW strike kicks off new era for US labour

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Central banks are charting different courses for interest rates in 2024, and EU leaders have agreed to officially start accession talks with Ukraine. ...

The west is losing patience with Israel

14 Dec 2023

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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday held interest rates at a 22-year high, countries reached a deal at the COP28 climate summit to transition away from f...

Is Signa’s downfall a canary in the coalmine?

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak headed off a Conservative revolt over his flagship Rwanda migration bill, US core inflation rose last month, and the FT’...

Wealthy donors and campus speech

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Investors poured record sums into high-yield bond exchange traded funds in November, Rishi Sunak will on Tuesday seek to face down rightwing Tory rebe...

The Big Four’s year of layoffs

11 Dec 2023

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French immigration reforms put Emmanuel Macron’s leadership to the test, Pisa rankings show sharp decline in student attainment in maths and reading...

US oil is keeping Opec on its toes

08 Dec 2023

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The EU is set to pave the way for completely ending gas imports from Russia and Belarus, and a record supply of oil from the US is complicating O...

The humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza

07 Dec 2023

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Moody’s Investors Service advised staff in China to work from home ahead of its cut to the outlook for the country’s sovereign credit rating, Pale...

The crackdown on Ukraine’s oligarchs

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Leading economists say the Federal Reserve will hold off on interest rate cuts until at least July 2024, and the US Supreme Court heard a case that co...

Hot Money: The New Narcos - Ep. 1, Murder Brokers

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hot Money is back with a brand new season. On the first episode of Hot Money: The New Narcos, a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, ...

Venezuela votes for a land grab in Guyana

05 Dec 2023

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The UK will make it harder for employers to hire overseas staff in an attempt to reduce record immigration by 300,000 a year, a Venezuelan referendum ...

Wealthy Argentines flock to Uruguay

04 Dec 2023

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Israel has ordered Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate a large area of land in the south of the strip, South Korea has become a top 10 defence exporter s...

Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos

01 Dec 2023

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Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads to a cocaine super cartel and a secret proxy war be...

Why markets had a stellar November

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Washington is aiming to halve Russia’s oil and gas revenues by the end of this decade, and markets turned things round and had a great November. Plu...

Nato says don’t underestimate Russia

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nato’s secretary-general is warning the west not to underestimate Russia, Cigna is in talks to merge with Humana in a deal that would create a US he...

Germany’s €60bn budget hole

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A record number of Chinese people have defaulted since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, a court ruling in Germany has opened up a huge €60b...

Israel-Hamas truce extended

28 Nov 2023

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Qatar said mediators had secured a deal to prolong the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas by two days, Chinese fast-fashion group, Shein, has fi...

COP28: Climate summit tries to kick fossil fuel habit

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Turkey’s exports to Russia of goods vital for Moscow’s war machine have soared in 2023, and nations at this year’s COP28 summit will revisit a p...

What the Dutch far-right win means for the EU

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Voters in the Netherlands elect Geert Wilders; UK immigration numbers reach new high; Plus, senior Carlsberg executives are detained in Russia.Mention...

Ousted OpenAI board member on AI safety concerns

23 Nov 2023

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Sam Altman returns and OpenAI board members are given the boot; US authorities foil a plot to kill Sikh separatist leader on US soil; plus, the UK’s...

OpenAI and Sam Altman’s superpowers

22 Nov 2023

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Israel and Hamas have agreed a deal to release hostages, Dutch voters head to the polls today, and Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao has resigned...

Argentina is in its Milei era

21 Nov 2023

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A majority of OpenAI employees sent a letter demanding that the board reinstate former CEO Sam Altman, Argentina is entering a new era after electing ...

Milei elected president of Argentina

20 Nov 2023

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Radical libertarian economist, Javier Milei, has won Argentina’s presidential elections, investors are shaking up the venture capital market by rais...

Life and Art: Nathan Fielder and ‘The Curse’

18 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing Life and Art, a new podcast FT Weekend. Join host Lilah Raptopoulos for two episodes each week.On Mondays, they talk about life and how to...

EY’s new leader has her work cut out for her

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

More than half of low-income UK households with mortgages have fallen behind on one or more of their bills and Alibaba disappointed investors after an...

Sunak grapples with ruling on flagship asylum plan

16 Nov 2023

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is attempting to save a plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda; an EU proposal will see Denmark enforcing the price cap...

Biden and Xi meet in San Francisco

15 Nov 2023

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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will hold a high-profile summit in San Francisco today, US inflation fell more than expected to 3.2 per cent in October, and ...

The return of David Cameron

14 Nov 2023

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Global investment banks have criticised a blanket ban on short selling imposed by South Korean regulators, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stunned Westm...

The hack that halted the US Treasury market

13 Nov 2023

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The UK’s Takeover Panel has reported its first deficit in almost a decade, and oil prices have been cooling off at a pretty weird time. Plus, the FT...

FTNB Live: The best US cities for foreign investment

11 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re bringing you a special live conversation from the FT’s Investing in America conference in Miami. Marc is joined on stage by FT US managing e...

Paris races to clean up Seine before Olympics

10 Nov 2023

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Russia has added at least Rbs3.4tn ($37bn) to its budget for this year, the war between Israel and Hamas is starting to bite into Israel's economy, an...

Introducing: Life and Art, from FT Weekend

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing Life and Art, from FT Weekend. It's a new twice-weekly culture podcast from the Financial Times. On Monday, we talk about life, and how to...

Arm wrestles with bad first quarter as a public company

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shares of UK chip designer Arm fell after its revenue forecast for the current quarter left Wall Street underwhelmed, the US’s top diplomat has prov...

Israel plans for ‘indefinite’ grip over Gaza

08 Nov 2023

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The IMF has warned rapid wage increases in eastern Europe risk eroding the region’s competitive edge, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu s...

The best US cities for foreign investment

07 Nov 2023

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WeWork filed for bankruptcy, PwC plans to cut up to 600 jobs in the UK, and the FT’s Peter Spiegel explains who won the distinction of the best US c...

Private equity wrestles with higher interest rates

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump testifies in New York today, Japan’s prime minister turns to stimulus to offset the pain of inflation, private equity is getting pummel...

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty

03 Nov 2023

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Israeli troops have entered Gaza City, European private equity group CVC Capital Partners has postponed plans to float until next year, and central ba...

The battle for EV batteries in US speeds up

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, and people are now being allowed to cross the border from Gaza into Egypt. Plus, competition for forei...

Governments dip into AI regulation

01 Nov 2023

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial is set to wrap up today, eurozone inflation fell to its lowest level for more than two years, and Odey Asset Managem...

Israel pushes deeper into Gaza

31 Oct 2023

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Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into the Gaza Strip on Monday, General Motors has reached a tentative deal with the United Auto Workers union, and...

The return of the rice crisis

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Israel has expanded its ground offensive in Gaza as the country launches a new phase of its war to destroy Hamas, and seven tech companies are dominat...

Sam Bankman-Fried takes the stand

27 Oct 2023

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FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried gave a preview of his defence against fraud charges, the US is worried that Iran and its proxies will escalate attacks o...

US House Speaker: Fourth time's the charm

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Johnson, a loyal ally of Donald Trump, has been elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. Plus, in the first instalment of our Investing I...

Who to turn to when the world is crumbling

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft registered an unexpected rebound in growth in its Azure cloud computing platform during the third quarter, environmental campaigners have at...

Commenting on Israel-Hamas is tricky for businesses

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The EU’s top diplomat called on Monday for a pause in hostilities in order to allow aid deliveries into Gaza, and Argentine bonds tumbled after Sund...

Ukraine and Israel vie for EU’s attention

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Toyota says it is close to being able to mass produce next-generation solid-state batteries, and the European Union is trying to juggle support for Uk...

Can Argentina dollarise?

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The US, Britain and Germany called on their citizens to leave Lebanon, political tensions in the UK are starting to boil over about Israel's response ...

Biden urges Israel to take caution

19 Oct 2023

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Israel will let basic humanitarian aid into Gaza through Egypt, traders have been increasing their bets against the Israeli shekel, TK Netflix, and Be...

How will Egypt handle Gaza?

18 Oct 2023

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Alarm is mounting in Egypt that Gaza’s deepening humanitarian crisis will be thrust across its borders, Scotland’s first minister said the country...

How Microsoft beat the odds

17 Oct 2023

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Poland’s rightwing party will likely be out of power after last weekend’s election, a US-led effort to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip ...

Israel prepares to invade Gaza

16 Oct 2023

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Israel is preparing to launch a major ground invasion of Gaza, the UK justice secretary is set to announce a controversial plan to address the chronic...

The man behind the Hamas attack

13 Oct 2023

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US inflation was higher than forecast in September, the EU has opened an investigation into X over the way disinformation is spreading on its platform...

Hamas is not Israel’s only concern

12 Oct 2023

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Analysts forecast that four of the six big US banks will see Q3 profits fall year on year, Israel has been fighting on its northern border with Lebano...

Israel’s hostage dilemma

11 Oct 2023

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Sir Keir Starmer made a pitch for the votes of disillusioned former Conservative supporters, abductions of dozens of civilians present Israel with ris...

Israel imposes ‘complete siege’ on Gaza

10 Oct 2023

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Israel imposed a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, the Bank of Israel said it planned to sell up to $30bn of dollar reserves to support the shek...

Israel responds to historic Hamas attack

09 Oct 2023

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The death toll from Hamas’s unprecedented multi-front assault on Israel passed 600 on Sunday, and Germany’s conservative opposition won two decisi...

Can artificial intelligence grow safely?

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Economists expect that jobs growth in the US slowed again in September, and the recent sell-off in bonds might be starting to cool. Plus, artificial i...

Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial begins

05 Oct 2023

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Lawyers for the crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried laid out their defence on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak axed the northern leg of the HS2 high-speed rail line...

McCarthy ousted as US House Speaker

04 Oct 2023

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Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as Speaker of the House of Representatives, the yield on 30-year US Treasuries hit a 16-year peak on Tuesday, Indi...

Rating the ESG raters

03 Oct 2023

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Kristalina Georgieva backs reforms to the IMF that could eventually give more power to China, regulators are calling for more transparency for ESG rat...

McCarthy avoids US government shutdown

02 Oct 2023

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US lawmakers were able to avert a shutdown over the weekend, Slovakia’s election results are adding pressure to the EU’s unity around the war in U...

Can AI help us speak to animals? Part two

30 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A hardware revolution in recording devices and a software revolution in artificial intelligence has convinced some scientists that humans will eventua...

Tech IPOs lose their shimmer

29 Sep 2023

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European government bond prices dropped sharply as investors took fright at Italy’s larger than expected budget deficit, optimism for the IPO market...

What does China ‘de-risking’ actually mean?

28 Sep 2023

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Global dealmaking is languishing at a 10-year low, western companies are insulating their China operations, and Chinese battery groups are avoiding or...

The FTC is primed for Amazon

27 Sep 2023

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The US Federal Trade Commission has accused Amazon of wielding monopolistic control over online markets, JPMorgan Chase said it settled lawsuits relat...

#MeToo’s mark on industry

26 Sep 2023

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The writers strike hitting Hollywood looks like it’s nearing a close and the FT’s Brooke Masters explores whether recent CEO departures could be a...

Poland’s complicated relationship with Ukraine

25 Sep 2023

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Russia has succeeded in avoiding G7 sanctions on most of its oil exports, Poland is calling for less support for Ukraine, China’s answer to the Worl...

Can AI help us speak to animals? Part one

23 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A hardware revolution in recording devices and a software revolution in artificial intelligence is enabling researchers to listen in to all kinds of c...

Rupert Murdoch steps down

22 Sep 2023

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Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp, Russia has barred the export of diesel and petrol, and the Bank of England has held int...

Fed signals fewer cuts in 2024

21 Sep 2023

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Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday signalled support for another rate rise this year and fewer cuts in 2024, share buybacks on the US stock market...

Oil prices are not a barrel of fun

20 Sep 2023

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Shares in grocery delivery group Instacart jumped more than 10 per cent on their first day of trading, oil prices climbed above $95 a barrel for the f...

Can Singapore remain Asia’s ‘safe haven’?

19 Sep 2023

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Instacart’s public listing this week is set to inch Nasdaq further ahead of the New York Stock Exchange in their closest fight for new listings in f...

A historic autoworkers strike

18 Sep 2023

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US auto workers are striking to protect workers against the move to electric vehicles, and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak won’t attend the climate am...

Digital cash and culture wars

15 Sep 2023

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Shares in chip designer Arm jumped by 25 per cent as it began trading on the Nasdaq exchange yesterday, and the European Central Bank has raised inter...

CEO exit throws wrench into BP

14 Sep 2023

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Rising energy costs pushed US inflation above forecasts in August, Bernard Looney’s resignation from BP puts the oil company’s green energy transi...

IPO within Arm’s reach

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

BP’s chief executive Bernard Looney is resigning and SoftBank’s Arm is set to hit the public market on Thursday. Plus, we look at why Germany’s ...

Coming soon: Can AI help us speak to animals?

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some scientists believe that rapid advances in artificial intelligence may also hold the key to decoding animal sounds, allowing us to ‘translate’...

Why the euro is on a losing streak

12 Sep 2023

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Norway’s $1.4tn sovereign wealth fund has become the biggest shareholder in UBS, a landmark antitrust trial between Google and the US government sta...

India shines at G20 summit

11 Sep 2023

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PwC is planning to give up tens of millions of dollars of consulting work for its US audit clients, Australia’s biggest pension fund is going big on...

Biden courts India at G20

08 Sep 2023

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India hosts the G20 summit this weekend, Germany is pushing the European Commission to postpone tariffs on electric vehicle sales between the UK and t...

EU pushes back on ‘too big to care’ tech companies

07 Sep 2023

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US and European corporate bond markets have started September with a bang, the EU released a list of digital services that will have to comply with th...

Ukraine doubles down on counteroffensive

06 Sep 2023

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The EU’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager is stepping aside, and the UK has clawed back less than 2 per cent of losses owing to fraud and...

Solving America’s shortage of accountants

05 Sep 2023

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Lloyds Banking Group joins HSBC and US group Citi in ordering employees back into the office, a shortage of accountants is causing problems in the US ...

Secret paper trail reveals hidden Adani investors

04 Sep 2023

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Global growth is set to slow next year after outperforming economists’ expectations so far in 2023, American mothers are re-entering the workforce a...