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Water companies pay £2.5bn in dividends in two years as debt climbs by £8.2bn

...All 16 companies have been criticised for service failures, including tipping unknown quantities of sewage into waterways, high leakage rates or water outages....

April 15, 2024

MBDA Missile Systems

UK must play a role in EU’s defence strategy, urges European missile maker’s chief

...“MBDA is adapting to all these changes to get battle ready,” he said. Additional reporting by Henry Foy in Brussels...

March 13, 2024

FT Live

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Benedict Evans

Where is artificial general intelligence? My grandfather’s guess is as good as yours

...By default, though, this latest excitement will follow all the other waves of AI, and become “just” more software and more automation....

April 13, 2024

Management consulting

Britain, consultation nation

...Nobody can touch us when it comes to “things that don’t fit in any other category” Davies reckons a “hell of a lot” of this ‘Other business services’ category is lawyers, but actually it’s UK management...

January 23, 2024

UK politics

UK public trust in political parties collapses to 12%

...“These are institutions that are the very bedrock of democracy and the fall in trust is something that all political parties need to think about,” said Travers....

March 1, 2024

Royal Mail

Royal Mail proposes to halve second-class deliveries

...That proposal follows an outcry from magazine publishers, the health service and others at previous suggestions all deliveries on Saturdays might end....

April 3, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Oren Cass

How Republicans learnt to love bigger government

...At other times he calls for aggressive reform....

March 26, 2024

Moral Money

Climate finance: Perhaps the money is there, after all Premium

...Currently, there is little oversight of how organisations create ESG criteria and rate other companies against them....

December 7, 2023

Food & Drink

Another pointless article about the UK’s strategic wine reserves

...Who are these other stakeholders? Basically, we don’t know, because the attendance lists are redacted....

April 26, 2024

FT Magazine

A supersize coffee won’t fix you

...Hot water or steamed milk can be added in all manners of quantities, creating different flavours and dilutions in the process....

March 16, 2024

Brexit

Small businesses face punitive charges from new Brexit border fees

...“We are trying to cut the number of lorries we bring in, so we only bring one every two weeks and focus on bigger quantities....

April 22, 2024

Letter

Letter: Immigration — a solution to labour market rigidities

...There are other sectors for which that is equally true....

February 12, 2024

Airlines

UK imposes sustainable fuel targets on airlines

...But the new fuels are currently at least three times as expensive as traditional jet fuel, and only produced in very small quantities. Less than 1 per cent of UK jet fuel was made from SAFs last year....

April 24, 2024

Leo Lewis

How the secret of sleep keeps us awake

...Its focus is on the mechanism in the brain that controls the quality and quantity of sleep — the heart of the mystery about what happens during waking hours that later builds to sleepiness....

April 23, 2024

Unhedged

Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi defends buyback policy

...It held that the velocity of money was stable, so all that really mattered to purchasing power, and all that central bankers had to worry about, was the quantity of money....

February 28, 2024

FT Live

Climate Capital Live

The leading global platform for climate science, finance and business

LexPrivate equity

Private equity’s latest trick is to buy and hold Premium

...Investors will put money in — and take limited quantities out — at the net asset value at that time....

April 9, 2024

UK retail sales

British retail sales stagnate as shoppers cut back on groceries

...The quantity of goods bought in Great Britain was unchanged between February and March following a revised 0.1 per cent increase in the previous month, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday....

April 19, 2024

US Treasury bonds

Bond vigilantes snooze as Treasury market shrugs off vast US borrowing

...The quantity of Treasuries outstanding is set to rise by $1.7tn this year, according to Goldman Sachs....

March 16, 2024

Apple Inc

Apple accused by Congo over conflict minerals in iPhones

...In the letter, France- and US-based lawyers for the DRC say that Apple’s iPhones, Mac computers and other accessories are “tainted by the blood of the Congolese people”....

April 25, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The planet’s got 99 problems, but exponential growth isn’t one

...What matters for our environment are flows of energy, pollutants and other physical quantities....

January 12, 2024

COP29

Climate finance must be COP29 summit priority, UN leaders say

...“We have no [other] pathway.”...

March 14, 2024

Food & Drink

A deep dive into the Government’s £3.7mn wine cellar

...One place where we can observe quantities, however, is in the consumption data (annex A)....

January 16, 2024

Trading technology

Citadel Securities moves data and algorithm testing to Google Cloud

...“We’ve moved virtually all the data that we need for every asset that the firm is involved in . . . all the data that all the researchers need,” said Costas Bekas, head of research platform at Citadel Securities...

April 9, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago

...Others, such as solar photovoltaic modules, become much cheaper as production ramps up....

April 26, 2024

News in-depthChinese military

China’s military capability set to grow faster than its defence budget

...“That military operation is dragging on a lot longer than expected and has created the need . . . for much larger quantities of munitions and other gear than expected,” said a Chinese military expert who...

March 6, 2024

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