American Can Company

Private equity gears up for potential National Football League investments

...The percentage stake that a team can sell to outside investors is still under discussion, as are issues such as whether a fund can hold interests in multiple teams and guidelines for potential investment...

April 18, 2024

Lex PopuliInvestments

If you like a company, should you buy its shares?

...It is not obvious why US investors would be any more willing to buy shares until the company shows it can generate sustainable positive free cash flow. You cannot blame Sparta for agitating....

April 19, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Letter

Letter: How American industrial policy can avoid corporate capture

...The case of Boeing, one of the most storied champions of American industrial policy, illustrates the uncompetitive and dangerous outcomes of the state-business relationship....

March 20, 2024

Live news: Yen weakens to ¥155 per dollar as US stocks edge higher

BHP proposes takeover of Anglo American

...Anglo American confirmed that “an unsolicited, non-binding and highly conditional” proposal from BHP had been received and that “there can be no certainty that any offer will be made nor as to the terms...

April 24, 2024

John Thornhill

Can 23andMe reinvent itself as a drug discovery company?

...But intriguingly, several billionaires have laid contrarian bets that 23andMe, one of the biggest testing companies, can reinvent itself as a valuable drug discovery business. Can it succeed?...

April 4, 2024

Gillian Tett

Green audits are coming for a company near you

...Since most large American entities touch the Golden State, this will suck 8,000 companies into the net, according to Crunchbase estimates....

February 29, 2024

FT Live

Due Diligence Live

Where leaders in investment and finance meet

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

Why are American roads so dangerous?

...To be clear, driver habits don’t form in a vacuum, and they can and must change....

April 19, 2024

Inter-American Development Bank

Latin American development bank to ramp up lending after reforms

...Goldfajn wants the bank to channel lending to areas where it can have a bigger impact and to make disbursements against results delivered....

March 10, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: BHP proposes all-stock takeover of Anglo American

...The $1.6tn fund’s chief executive told the FT it was “worrisome” that American companies were outpacing their European rivals on innovation and technology, leading to vast outperformance of US shares in...

April 25, 2024

Mining

BHP proposes takeover of Anglo American in mining mega-deal

...BHP has proposed a takeover of Anglo American in an all-stock deal that would bring together two global mining companies and rank as one of the industry’s largest transactions in years....

April 25, 2024

Live news: Yen weakens to ¥155 per dollar as US stocks edge higher

Europeans ‘less hard-working’ than Americans, says Norway oil fund boss

...Nicolai Tangen, chief executive of the $1.6tn fund, told the Financial Times it was “worrisome” that American companies were outpacing their European rivals on innovation and technology, leading to vast...

April 24, 2024

Live news: Yen weakens to ¥155 per dollar as US stocks edge higher

Europeans ‘less hard-working’ than Americans, says Norway oil fund boss

...Nicolai Tangen, chief executive of the $1.6tn fund, told the Financial Times it was “worrisome” that American companies were outpacing their European rivals on innovation and technology, leading to vast...

April 24, 2024

Electric vehicles

Can European carmakers stop China’s electric behemoth BYD?

...According to Hochgeschurtz, the Chinese “can reduce the price much lower than you even think in your wildest dreams”....

February 29, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen

US Steel gets a new owner

Japanese company targets American market with its biggest-ever acquisition

December 19, 2023

United States Steel Corp

Nippon Steel agrees to buy US Steel for $14.9bn

...Nippon Steel has agreed to buy US Steel in a $14.9bn deal, as the Japanese group targets the American market with its largest-ever acquisition....

December 18, 2023

FT Live

Global Private Banking Awards 2024

Celebrating excellence in wealth management

Janan Ganesh

OJ Simpson and the paradox of American power

...Being able to command effortless attention can also lull a country into a false sense of omnipotence....

April 20, 2024

US-Iran tensions

Can Biden respond to Iran-backed attack without escalating the war?

...The drone attack that killed three American service members on Sunday, which the US had attributed to an Iranian-backed militia, was a moment American officials had feared since the war between Israel and...

January 30, 2024

Instant InsightPeter Spiegel

Coalition government, American style

...Indeed, it is a power that even his opponents must admire: sitting presidents can rarely control legislators in their own party in the way the ex-president can....

April 20, 2024

Norway's Oil Fund

Europeans ‘less hard-working’ than Americans, says Norway oil fund boss

...Nicolai Tangen, chief executive of the $1.6tn fund, told the Financial Times it was “worrisome” that American companies were outpacing their European rivals on innovation and technology, leading to vast...

April 24, 2024

US & Canadian companies

Nearly all Americans agree . . .

...regulatory-pressure campaigns money can buy....

March 7, 2024

Letter

Letter: No leasing company can abandon its biggest market

...With the size of China’s economy and its population, I really can’t see that any leasing company would abandon the world’s biggest aviation market....

January 5, 2024

News in-depthAgricultural commodities

Latin American cocoa farmers rush to expand planting as prices spike

...Fuad Mohammed Abubakar, head of the Ghana Cocoa Marketing Company, said he was not worried. “Farmers in Ecuador are producing near-optimal yield levels,” he said....

April 23, 2024

ObituaryFinancial services

James Robinson III, American Express executive, 1935-2024

...That’s when he got a call from James Robinson III, who was then the chief executive of American Express and the biggest power broker on Wall Street....

March 21, 2024

Rana Foroohar

The great American transport crisis tells us something

...You can see it in the headlines — from the debacle at Boeing, through to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge, to the fact that the US can’t even build its own commercial ships anymore....

April 7, 2024

LexMining

Anglo American shows mining’s old economy problem Premium

...As prices fall, the companies can only awkwardly point out that these metals now matter less and less to the group’s profits....

February 22, 2024

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