Business after Brexit, extended lockdowns in Europe, Bitcoin’s rise
Businesses face a wave of new bureaucracy and checks at ports now that the UK is officially outside of the EU’s single market and customs union, European countries debate more restrictions aimed at co...
4 Jan 20219min
Brexit watch, China-Australia tensions, 2020 corporate winners and losers
Britain and the EU were finalising a historic post-Brexit agreement on Wednesday night. Plus, Beijing’s market regulator has announced an antitrust investigation into Alibaba, China’s ban on Australi...
24 Des 202010min
France reopens border with UK, DoJ sues Walmart, an investigation into Pornhub’s secretive owner
France is set to reopen its borders with the UK to truck drivers who test negative for Covid-19, Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen aim for a Brexit trade deal by ton...
23 Des 202010min
Investors unsettled by new coronavirus strain, UK coronavirus strain explained, SoftBank launches Spac
Global stock markets slipped and the price of oil declined on fears over the new strain of coronavirus sweeping through parts of Britain. The FT’s science editor, Clive Cookson, explains what scientis...
22 Des 20209min
EU travel bans, US stimulus, the City after Brexit
Several EU countries have banned travel from the UK as scientists identify a new strain of Covid that is 70 percent more transmissable, in the US, lawmakers reached a deal on Sunday night over a new r...
21 Des 20208min
Google hit with another antitrust case, Brexit fears lead to stockpiling, Fed stress tests
Dozens of states and territories have launched the first US antitrust challenge to Google’s core search engine, and a surge of stockpiling by UK companies before the end of the Brexit transition perio...
18 Des 202010min
Fed to extend debt purchases, US small businesses struggle, Robinhood hit with legal complaint
The US central bank says it will keep buying at least $120bn of debt a month until “substantial further progress has been made” in the recovery, US regulators have hit Luckin Coffee with a $180m pena...
17 Des 20208min
Spanish companies vie for EU recovery aid, UK nuclear plans
Spanish blue-chips have positioned themselves for tens of billions of euros in EU coronavirus aid, the UK is drawing up plans to turn London into a rival to Singapore as a hub for shipping companies, ...
16 Des 202010min
