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April 21, 2024

Are we at peak K-pop? Goldman doesn’t think so

...In a hefty research note the US investment bank argues that investor sentiment on K-pop is “ripe for a turnaround”....

April 4, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Russia

How Ukraine war distracted Moscow from Isis-K threat

...Isis-K launched a suicide attack against the Russian embassy in Kabul in September 2022. “Isis-K has even rolled out a Russian-language propaganda wing,” Webber said....

March 24, 2024

InterviewTheatre

Minority Report and the rise of sci-fi on stage

...“What’s brilliant about the Philip K Dick story is it’s got a psychological conundrum in the centre of it,” says Webster. “But it’s not a philosophical exercise or lecture; it’s a crime thriller....

February 13, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: Silence from opponent marks partner with key card

...There are many possibilities, including the diamond finesse, but the action at trick 1 should convince declarer that one line seems superior. East overtakes the lead with A♠ and returns J♠....

March 20, 2024

News in-depthTerrorism

How the Taliban’s return made Afghanistan a hub for global jihadis

...While President Vladimir Putin sought to implicate Ukraine in last week’s attack, a Moscow court specified that all four main suspects were Tajik citizens, a group that forms a significant component of Isis-K...

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift’s new album sells 1.6mn copies in US in single day

...Buying such hard copies is also part of fans’ strategies to support their favourite artists and try to propel them up the music charts — a trend that originated in the world of K-Pop but has expanded to...

April 21, 2024

Jayasree K Iyer

There are far too many avoidable deaths in childbirth

...The writer is chief executive of the Access to Medicine Foundation In 1934, Kaveri, a 19-year-old girl in Malaya, died of severe bleeding after giving birth to a baby boy. She was my grandmother....

January 17, 2024

Due Diligence

PE+QE made K&E. Will it last? Premium

...In today’s newsletter: Kirkland & Ellis confronts a dealmaking slowdown The PE dealmaker who’s everywhere right now KKR jumps on a deal Carlyle snubbed QE+PE= K&E Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis has...

December 13, 2023

Bridge - Card game

True skill is demonstrated when luck deserts you

...At trick 1, declarer should rise with A♠, draw trumps with ♥AK, and then take the club finesse....

March 27, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: aggressive auction leads to ambitious contract requiring expert play

...South cashed A♦ and K♠ and went over to dummy with A♠ to play K♦, throwing a spade from hand. When this held, this is trick 11. For his 12th trick, he led dummy’s fourth diamond....

April 17, 2024

Skechers USA Inc

Skechers’ family troubles

...Skechers agreed to pay a $1.25 million civil penalty to settle the SEC’s charges....

March 8, 2024

InterviewHybe

Music label behind BTS seeks to recreate K-pop model in America

...The South Korean music label behind K-pop sensation BTS is trying to export its star “production system” to the US as it accelerates a global acquisition push....

December 24, 2023

News updates from October 19: Jordan pauses US Speaker bid, Canada to pull dozens of diplomats from India

Kakao CIO arrested for alleged stock manipulation during K-pop agency takeover

...South Korean authorities have arrested the chief investment officer of internet group Kakao for allegedly manipulating stock prices during a heated acquisition battle for K-pop agency SM Entertainment....

October 19, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: determined player’s aggressive bid sets challenge to bring home thin contract

...One method might be to lay down A♦ in case West holds a singleton K♦ but, here, this fails, as West’s ♦J74 becomes a third-round winner....

March 6, 2024

FT Live

Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference

Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance

Bridge - Card game

Cheap first trick subsequently costs contract

...Finally, he draws the last trump and crosses to his carefully preserved K♥ to cash A♣, which fells East’s Q♣....

April 23, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Ambitious slam looks set to fail on 4-0 trump break: perfect timing is required

...West led K♥ and declarer’s plan was simple: cash A♦, ruff two low diamonds in dummy, draw trumps, and score up the slam. On the bidding, the distribution suited this plan....

April 3, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Islamist terror returns to Russia

...Isis-K struck Russia’s embassy in Kabul in 2022 and has been “fixated” on Russia for two years, according to the Soufan Center, a think-tank....

March 25, 2024

News updates from March 14: Chuck Schumer calls for Netanyahu’s replacement; China hits out at US push to ban TikTok as Steven Mnuchin plots bid

Risers and fallers in Europe

...Encavis: Shares in the German renewable electricity company jumped 26 per cent after private equity firm KKR launched a €2.8bn takeover offer....

March 14, 2024

Travel

Back to Georgia, where ‘a guest is a gift from God’

...“A guest is a gift from God” might be a dusty old Georgian proverb but it remains a national mantra....

March 7, 2024

South Korean business & finance

Tech executive arrested over share purchases in K-pop bidding war

...Kakao shares dropped nearly 3 per cent on Thursday, underperforming a 1.9 per cent fall in the benchmark Kospi index. The stock is down nearly a quarter so far this year....

October 19, 2023

Letter

Letter: Snails, not naked clams, are the real superfood

...; 15 per cent protein, less fat than chicken or beef, calcium, iron, selenium plus a garnish of vitamins E, A, K and B12....

April 10, 2024

FT Magazine

‘We’re all maggots’: an audience with Jim Riswold, the copywriter behind some of Nike’s greatest adverts

...Nearing the end of the decade, sales were $1.2bn. Last year, they exceeded $50bn....

March 9, 2024

LexPrivate equity

How private equity is struggling to work for the little guy Premium

...Blackstone’s BXPE, which managed $1.3bn in January, follows those of KKR’s K-Prime and Apollo’s AAA, which also invest a portion of their funds in buyout strategies....

February 20, 2024

Inside BusinessAnna Nicolaou

The last of pop’s superstars?

...It is little surprise, then, that Universal recently struck a deal to distribute music from HYBE, the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, for the next decade....

April 11, 2024

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