How Russia loots grain from Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year triggered a global food crisis. Recently, FT correspondents Polina Ivanova, Chris Cook and Laura Pitel found out how Russia aims to profit from this. Iva...
9 Nov 202216min
JPMorgan’s internal feud over wealthy clients
There’s some internal turmoil at JPMorgan Chase over who should manage the bank’s wealthiest clients. At the centre of the infighting is a top financial adviser who’s managed the accounts of some big ...
2 Nov 202216min
Did China miss its chance to fix its economy?
The spotlight is on China as the Communist party’s 20th National Congress takes place this week. At a critical moment when President Xi Jinping prepares to stay on for an unprecedented third term as l...
19 Okt 202216min
An electric truck start-up founder goes to trial
Trevor Milton and his electric vehicle start-up Nikola became Spac darlings in 2020 with his plan to transform the trucking industry. Then it all came crashing down. The FT’s Claire Bushey explains th...
12 Okt 202219min
How Wall Street became infatuated with the music industry
Years of low interest rates sent investors hunting for creative ways to generate returns. One unlikely place they found was inside the song catalogues of some of the top musicians and songwriters of t...
5 Okt 202219min
Who will pay for the next Covid vaccines?
As the rollout of bivalent boosters for Covid-19 continues, experts are concerned that the US isn’t doing enough to support the development of the next wave of vaccines and treatments that the world n...
28 Sep 202217min
The next hurdle for unions in the US
Over the last year, Starbucks baristas across the US banded together to form unions at the stores where they work. And workers at other big name companies like Amazon have joined in to organise their ...
21 Sep 202220min
