Are we in a new era of inflation?
The Biden administration is banning Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese defence and surveillance technology companies, and US job creation is expected to have accelerated sharply in May whic...
4 Jun 20219min
AMC butters up retail investors, Naomi Osaka shakes up sports media
A wave of high-profile ransomware assaults over the past two months has convulsed the insurance market, US cinema chain AMC is offering popcorn to its retail investor base and its share price surged s...
3 Jun 20218min
Djibouti is trying to become the Singapore of Africa
Former Apollo Global Management chief executive, Leon Black, has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that he raped and harassed a young Russian model, Opec and its allies caused oil markets to jump by st...
2 Jun 202111min
How Covid-19 finally caught up with Taiwan
The surge in pet ownership during the pandemic has helped propel the group behind pet insurer Bought By Many to a valuation of more than $2bn, and a director at the company behind the video game Final...
1 Jun 20218min
US regulation on cryptocurrencies could be coming
American retailers are rushing to secure inventory ahead of the year end holiday season, US financial authorities are preparing to take a more active role in regulating the $1.5tn cryptocurrency marke...
31 Mai 202111min
European stocks are getting their moment in the sun
The market for special purpose acquisition companies has become an unexpected casualty of the Archegos Capital Management scandal, and the activist investors who won a stunning proxy battle against Ex...
28 Mai 202110min
Big oil companies face backlash on both sides of the Atlantic
Tesla is set to pay for chips in advance to overcome the global chip shortage, and Amazon locks in its $8.45bn acquisition of MGM. Plus, the FT’s US energy editor, Derek Brower, explains what a court ...
27 Mai 20219min
Can oil dependent countries adjust as the world shifts from fossil fuels?
England’s National Health Service is preparing to scrape the medical histories of 55m patients into a database it will share with third parties, and dozens of American companies that suspended politic...
26 Mai 20218min
