Britton v. Mays

Egypt’s richest man Nassef Sawiris considers breaking up his empire

...OCI’s board in May approved a strategic review of all business lines as well as its listing venue of the Netherlands after Ubben bought a 5 per cent stake and pressed the group to explore options, including...

February 14, 2024

Menswear

V-necks are back

...V-over-a-tee look, à la Neil Barrett....

April 8, 2024

FT Live

Innovation in Wealth Management Summit

Augmented intelligence for client-centric services

FT Alphaville

The Bank of England is still v v worried about Treasury basis trades

...Sharp increases in volatility in market interest rates could lead to increases in margin required on the futures positions, or hedge funds may find it harder to refinance their borrowing in the repo market...

December 6, 2023

Chess

World No 1 v world champion: Carlsen and Ding to meet this weekend

...Puzzle 2558 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. Click here for solution...

February 5, 2024

Tefaf Maastricht 2024

Battle to keep sculpture in Britain highlights European museums’ struggles

...Such shared ownership may become more common....

March 2, 2024

Gardens

Do houseplants purify the air? Experts debunk indoor gardening myths

...So, while the leaves may be shiny at first, they are going to be extra dusty shortly.”...

March 15, 2024

FT Live

Evolving retirement strategies in an ever-changing world

What new regulatory developments mean for IFAs

Clearing & Settlement

Lessons from last autumn’s CCP ‘fire drill’

...This is a classic “dull but v v v v important” issue that rarely gets the attention it should, because a lot of people understandably lose the will to live as soon as you start talking about financial plumbing...

February 14, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Swamp Notes — What’s the Republican party’s position on abortion?

...It may be the biggest issue, but it’s hard to tell at the moment....

April 14, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

Fragile alliance — is Nato still up for the fight?

...By breaking Ukraine’s statehood, Putin may have thought he could break Nato too....

April 3, 2024

UK financial regulation

Opaque practices await UK regulators in private asset valuations probe

...Clearly it’s a long-term investment,” said Britton. “We’d say you’d look to hold this for 10 years at least....

October 27, 2023

Visual Arts

Young V&A opens with children in the driving seat

...Older kids may gravitate to the gaming displays (including consoles and boardgames), but they’re also acknowledged as creators, encouraged to design their own adventures....

June 26, 2023

The Long ViewKatie Martin

In defence of Europe’s tankmakers

...A fondness for European defence stocks has been a somewhat oddball hobby for most of the last decade or two, but like V-neck jumpers, the sector is firmly back in fashion....

April 12, 2024

HTSI

The seductive appeal of silvery pewter

...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...

April 15, 2024

Chess

Carlsen and Buettner announce Freestyle Chess Tour for top players

...Puzzle 2564 Mateusz Bartel v Gergely Szabo, Hungarian teams 2017. White to move and win. Click here for solution...

March 18, 2024

HTSI

The fairytale romance of the four-poster

...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....

April 15, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Gaming

Can Grand Theft Auto VI match its $7.7bn predecessor?

...So while the hype cycle for this new game is only just beginning, and may well be suffocating by this time next year, GTA VI is looking good....

December 6, 2023

Arm Ltd

Arm’s an AI stock now. When’s the crash?

...Risc-V, mentioned above, is an alternative architecture for low-power chips that’s open-source and free to use....

February 13, 2024

News in-depthUK inflation

BoE takes heat for hawkish stance as UK inflation cools

...The market has made up its own mind, pricing in a quarter-point cut by May, with rates tipped to fall by 1.38 percentage points over the course of 2024....

December 20, 2023

Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust

Blackstone’s liability to University of California doubles on property fund losses

...On a conference call with analysts in January, Gray said Breit had “weathered the storm” in real estate markets, but he warned that Blackstone did not expect to see a “V-sharped recovery” in property values...

February 26, 2024

News in-depthChinese business & finance

China’s start-ups take on big global beauty brands

...“They have been raised in China’s hyper-competitive marketplace” so they may have an advantage in a “slower moving marketplace abroad”, said Tanner from China Skinny....

February 2, 2024

Tata Steel Ltd

Workers at Welsh steel plant braced for widespread job losses

...Executives from India’s Tata Steel, including chief executive T V Narendran, have flown in for the talks with union leaders in London to discuss plans for the future of the company’s UK operations, which...

January 17, 2024

US & Canadian companies

Private equity is in for rampant consolidation

...Both are now “overweight” US government bonds in the belief that the Fed may already be done raising rates and that Treasuries would perform well during a period of economic weakness....

September 18, 2023

Chess

Ex-prodigy surprises at ‘chess Wimbledon’ while world champion flops

...Puzzle 2557 Esteban Canal v Amateur, Budapest 1934. White to move and win. Click here for solution...

January 29, 2024

News in-depthConservative Party UK

How a start-up boss now pursued by his investors gained access to Sunak

...Tripathi also said he never received any benefits from sums paid by Signifier into Co V, which was owned by a close friend....

February 29, 2024

The Big Read

Malaysia: the surprise winner from US-China chip wars

...The US, the biggest contributor to Malaysia’s FDI, may clamp down further on Chinese technology; some analysts and industry groups fear it may restrict products and equipment built in Malaysia by the flood...

March 11, 2024

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