Martin Wolf's summer reading list
The UK’s advertising watchdog says it will clamp down on misleading marketing for crypto investments, and stock markets dropped on Thursday on rising concerns about prospects for the global economy. P...
9 Juli 202111min
A wave of private equity buyouts in the UK prompts concern
Former president Donald Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, as well as their respective chief executives, in lawsuits alleging “unlawful censorship” of Americans, the new Delta vari...
8 Juli 20219min
What did Didi’s bankers know before the IPO?
Didi lost a fifth of its market value after Chinese regulators announced an investigation into the ride-hailing app that last week raised more than $4bn in a New York IPO, the Opec impasse highlights ...
7 Juli 20218min
China’s widening tech crackdown
KKR is expanding its operations to target more takeovers in the UK, ransomware hackers hit more than 1,000 companies in what appears to be one of the largest supply chain attacks to date, and oil pric...
6 Juli 20218min
Introducing Tech Tonic: Trust me, I’m a robot
As a News Briefing special we present Tech Tonic, our FT audio deep dive into the promises and perils of artificial intelligence. If you enjoyed this episode, click here to subscribe to Tech Tonic. T...
5 Juli 202124min
What the Apple Daily closure means for the free press in Hong Kong
The world’s leading economies have signed up to a plan that looks to force multinational companies to pay a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 per cent, economists believe that the Federal Reserv...
2 Juli 202110min
How English Channel ports avoided a Brexit meltdown
Private equity firms have broken a 40-year record with $500bn in deals that helped to propel global mergers and acquisitions activity to an all-time high, and the dominant Chinese ride-hailing company...
1 Juli 20219min
Inside the secretive private equity firm behind the £6.8bn Asda buyout
Today the UK will set out a plan for a simpler, more “nimble” post-Brexit system of state subsidies, and the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi is anticipating a wave of infrastructure spending as it bets ...
30 Juni 20219min
