FT News in Focus

China has unveiled retaliatory duties on food that it imports from the US, including pork, fruit and wine, in response to the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Where do th...

3 Apr 20188min

The US Department of Commerce will reinstate a controversial citizenship question on the next census, provoking fears that doing so would lower the response rate among immigrant and minority groups an...

29 Mar 20185min

After a string of scandals at Uber last year that ended in the ouster of founder Travis Kalanick, investors looked to new chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi to bring financial discipline and fresh lead...

27 Mar 20189min

China is merging its largest state television and radio stations as part of a drive to broaden its global news footprint. But ultimately it has much bigger ambition, to become the world's foremost new...

26 Mar 201810min

The FT's Alex Barker and Jim Brunsden discuss whether the explicit mention of financial services in an annex to the “guidelines” on negotiating future relations between Britain and the EU amounts to a...

23 Mar 20189min

Who or what is Cambridge Analytica, the company that has embroiled Facebook in a scandal over the misuse of its users' data? Brooke Masters puts the question to the FT's John Gapper, who has been inve...

22 Mar 201811min

Regulatory scrutiny of Facebook is ramping up around the world after claims that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained the data of about 50m users of the social network. The FT's Hanna...

21 Mar 20186min

Sherborne, Edward Bramson’s investment vehicle, has acquired a significant interest in Barclays, one of Britain's biggest banks, increasing pressure on management to turn round its recent faltering pe...

20 Mar 201810min