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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    LexPrudential PLC
    The Pru’s challenge is a break-up gone bad Premium content

    Chief Anil Wadhwani should resist throwing too much cash at shareholders and stay the course with growth

    Prudential chief executive Anil Wadhwani  with the Prudential tower in the background
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    Don’t blame neoliberalism for the rise of the hard right

    Populism is often strongest in big-spending social democracies

    President Emmanuel Macron
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    LexDigital Media
    Digital comics are a serious business for private equity Premium content

    A Blackstone tender offer for Infocom could set the tone for rivals looking to list

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Printer does not go brr any more Premium content

    And the market goes up anyway

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    LexEuropean banks
    Contagion risks scare off investors in French banks Premium content

    The major Eurozone economy has been mired in political turmoil

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Andy Haldane
    Post-election, Britain will once again waive the rules

    Self-imposed fiscal constraints risk starving the economy of the investment needed to boost growth

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    Neither politicians nor the public think straight on immigration

    The problem is that voters aren’t willing to pay for a policy they say really matters to them

    Ewan White illustration of bricklayers building a wall in a desert.
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Will we need to pay tax on gifting our Swiss apartment?

    My wife and I would like to gift our flat to our children

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    Fed needs to cut interest rates sooner rather than later

    Delay by US central bank in easing monetary policy could jeopardise soft economic landing

    Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessJune Yoon
    The bullish case for TSMC

    Shares in the semiconductor company have risen strongly but still lag behind Nvidia and other chipmakers

    A chip wafer displayed at a ceremony that marks the beginning of bulk production of advanced 3-nanometer chips at TSMC
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The fantasy economics of France’s far right and left

    Both the far right and leftwing are touting populist and uncosted policies

    Two men paste French political posters on buildings
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
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    Proposed North Sea tax hike pours cold water on producers Premium content

    Oil and gas sector warns Labour that its manifesto pledge could kill off investment

    Oil rig on sea horizon
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Monica de Bolle
    Latin America is the victim of protectionist contagion

    ‘Steel wars’ with China show how difficult it is to contain global tariffs

    A woman handles sheets of steel in a factory
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Mark Carney
    Stop debating carbon markets and start building them

    The prize is huge if we can agree on standards and get this right

    A carbon capture facility in Iceland
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    LexDollar Tree Inc
    Dollar Tree needs to end its unhappy union with Family Dollar Premium content

    Buying the discount chain was meant to boost performance over rivals but instead it has become a profit drag

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  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    From France to America, the far right is on the march

    Attitudes to democracy and the rule of law will define the distinctions in politics

    James Ferguson illustration of flagpoles as flaming torches, one carrying the EU flag and the other the US flag.
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    OutlookEmma Jacobs
    Employees embrace WFH (work from hairdressers)

    Salons are installing USB ports, extra sockets and quiet areas for calls in a bid to draw back customers

    A smart phone sits propped against a water bottle on a desk as a woman speaks on a Zoom call
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Global InsightAndres Schipani
    Sudan is tumbling into the Somalia trap

    The battle for Khartoum has parallels with Mogadishu’s bloody descent in the 1990s

    A member of Sudan’s armed forces walks between damaged buildings in Omdurman
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    LexInsurance
    What are Chinese visitors to Hong Kong now buying? Insurance Premium content

    Sector sales to visitors from mainland up nearly two-thirds in first quarter

    The Prudential logo on a building in Hong Kong
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Inside PoliticsStephen Bush
    Labour’s tax-and-spend commitments will hamper ‘change’ plans

    Myriad challenges — from drinking water to prisons — will require increased spending to solve

    A person holding the Labour party general election manifesto
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    How red tape is holding the US back

    American bureaucracy is burgeoning in both public and private sectors

    Illustration of two figures trying to disentangle themselves from a web of red tape
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessSujeet Indap
    Pressure mounts on senior bankers as discontent in junior ranks simmers

    It is not only junior staffers that are feeling the burden of rising workloads and demands amid intense competition

    A pedestrian walks past the New York Stock Exchange in New York
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Ruchir Sharma
    Why markets like to see new political faces

    Amid the confusion of recent elections, here is one factor with real economic impact

    Montage of photos of Narendra Modi, Claudia Sheinbaum and Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Markets InsightRichard Yetsenga
    Renminbi likely to draw fire as trade tensions mount

    China’s reliance on exports is set to fan the flames of protectionism elsewhere

    Close-up of Rmb100 notes
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Elon Musk defies gravity

    Tesla shareholders back his pay deal, but he should not overplay his hand

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