Saudi Arabia’s oil cut pledge, Qatar and Saudi Arabia end dispute, businesses tied to rebelling Republicans
Saudi Arabia pledged to cut an extra 1m barrels a day of oil output in February and March, and also has agreed to end its dispute with Qatar. Plus, the FT’s US business editor, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johns...
6 Jan 202110min
Covid-19 shakes US equities, OECD warns against post-pandemic austerity
US equities had their worst day since October as spiking coronavirus cases and lockdowns shook investors, nearly €6bn of EU share dealing shifted away from London in the first trading day after Brexit...
5 Jan 20218min
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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 202010min
