Netflix gambles on gaming and podcasting
Netflix gained 1.5m subscribers in the second quarter but lost 430,000 subscribers in the US and Canada, and UBS has launched a portfolio that invests solely in women-led hedge funds. Plus, the FT’s m...
21 Juli 20219min
US businesses in Hong Kong between a rock and a hard place
Fears over the coronavirus on Monday contributed to European stocks’ worst session of 2021 Description: The threat of the Delta coronavirus variant hit global equity markets on Monday, and the online ...
20 Juli 20218min
The search for a Covid supershot
Opec and its allies have reached a deal to raise oil production in response to soaring prices, and China just launched the world’s largest carbon trading market. Plus, the FT’s global health editor, S...
19 Juli 20219min
Pilita Clark’s picks for summer reading about the environment
US retail banks cut their branch networks and trimmed headcount in the first half of the year, and Brussels' historic attempt to tackle climate change faces a wall of opposition from governments in th...
16 Juli 202110min
Artist Damien Hirst issues his own ‘Currency’
The chair of the Federal Reserve, Jay Powell, sought to ease concerns in Congress about the Federal Reserve’s response to surging inflation, the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse last w...
15 Juli 20218min
The index of everything
Visa and Mastercard have left open key gateways between Binance and the financial system despite rising regulatory scrutiny of the cryptocurrency, the pace of US consumer price increases accelerated u...
14 Juli 20219min
The European Central Bank focuses on climate change
David Cameron was paid a salary of more than $1m by Greensill Capital, the finance company whose dramatic collapse exposed the former UK prime minister’s extensive lobbying efforts, and US banks will ...
13 Juli 20219min
EU’s Andreas Schwab responds to White House criticism of EU tech regulation
The rapid spread of the Delta coronavirus variant is causing concern about Europe’s economic recovery, and the number of start-ups valued above $1bn grew rapidly in the second quarter. Plus, the FT’s ...
12 Juli 20219min
