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The World 2024

What Biden has to do to beat Trump; Martin Wolf on globalisation; Gillian Tett on the JM Keynes view; How Xi and Putin defy ‘rules-based’ order; the deep mysteries of AI; and 2024 as the ‘year of elections

January 17, 2024

Scoreboard

The $50,000 test of the Olympic model Premium

...The issue is that not all federations are created equal. World Athletics is at the richer end of the spectrum....

April 13, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Venice Biennale 2024

Artist Josèfa Ntjam: ‘AI frees sculpture from the box of the museum’

...The artist is looking to the Dogon myth of Amma, who threw earth into the sky to make the stars, and the magical reality of plankton, which delivers oxygen to the world....

April 13, 2024

FT Magazine

An intrepid explorer finds the exotic in a nondescript corner of England

...Covering an area of around 20km north-south and the same distance east-west, it incorporated what the explorer describes as “a bog standard corner of England”....

January 12, 2024

HTSI

The Toast of the craft world

...“I hope my work can be part of a routine,” she says, “from the first sip of coffee in the morning to dining with loved ones.”...

March 11, 2024

Anjana Ahuja

Can AI really change our material world?

...If and when that day comes, we will still be living in a material world — but one not entirely of our own making....

April 17, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

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

HTSIThe HTSI design special

The living sculptures of Jeremy Anderson

...He told me they were pretty far along in the set ideas [the show opens this month]. ‘But I think your stuff needs to fit into this world somehow.’...

April 8, 2024

ReviewFiction

Before the Queen Falls Asleep — love in a traumatised world

...rationality of love in an irrational world....

April 19, 2024

Letter

Letter: A business must tap the talent of diverse groups to be successful

...François Bonnici Director, Schwab FoundationHead of Foundations, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland...

April 19, 2024

Markets InsightRobert Buckland

On markets and geopolitics, it is a mistake to forget about shale

...This newfound self-sufficiency has reduced the impact of external events on the world’s dominant stock market (US equities now represent 64 per cent of the MSCI AC World benchmark)....

April 15, 2024

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics AS

Car-carrier line WW makes record profits on Chinese EV exports

...Wallenius Wilhelmsen, the world’s biggest operator of car-carrying ships, has reported record annual profits as growing exports of Chinese electric vehicles helped drive demand....

February 14, 2024

UK politics

Rishi Sunak says UK economy has ‘turned the corner’ as he seeks to calm Tory nerves

...“We really have turned the corner at the start of this year,” Sunak said. “Inflation has been more than halved....

March 18, 2024

News in-depthPrivate credit

The former rugby lawyer shaking up the world of private credit

...Last week, it announced it had made a new loan to executive networking company World 50 and while filings show it was already a lender to the company, a person close to Barings described it as a “net new...

April 7, 2024

InterviewLunch with the FT

‘Modi is supposed to represent all of us’: human rights lawyer Indira Jaising

...Now that she’s in her eighties, is Jaising wearying of fighting her corner?...

February 16, 2024

Markets InsightToby Nangle

The hidden power of index providers

...And since 2021 a phased inclusion of Chinese debt into the FTSE Russell World Government Bond Index has been in train....

April 9, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

LexNetEase Inc

‘World of Warcraft’ return to China will bring peace to NetEase investors Premium

...World of Warcraft alone has more than 3mn players in China....

April 13, 2024

News updates from March 8: US adds 275,000 jobs in February; Bitcoin and gold touch new highs

Biden says US economy is ‘the envy of the world’

...Joe Biden described the US economy as “the envy of the world” and spoke of an “American comeback” he believes has not been sufficiently appreciated throughout the country....

March 8, 2024

FT Magazine

From tea at The Ritz to corner shop cake: Claire Ptak shares her Hierarchy of Pleasures

...Angel Cake from the corner shopI love plain sponge like angel cake — pink and yellow sponge with a little jam....

March 2, 2024

Venice Biennale 2024

Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto: ‘Photography is a second-class citizen in the art world’

...The difference, he believes, is partly because “photography is a second-class citizen in the art world”, something that stems, he half-jokes, from the fact that “when it was invented in 1839, painters were...

April 13, 2024

InterviewVisual Arts

Artist Outi Pieski: ‘The world speaks to me through the details’

...When I visit, she is preparing to display a series of similar hats — known as a ládjogahpir, a vital symbol of the Sámi people with a tumultuous past — around the corner at Tate St Ives, as part of her first...

April 1, 2024

ReviewGaming

Rise of the Rōnin review — the fighting is fun but its world is overstuffed

...The set-up is strong: the game takes place in the Bakumatsu period of Japan, the moment in the mid-19th century when the country resumed contact with the outside world after more than two centuries of isolation...

March 26, 2024

HTSI

Cult Shop: remembering the world of Harry Fane

...To enter the world of Harry Fane, the late vintage jewellery dealer, was to embark on an adventure of the senses....

February 11, 2024

ReviewHistory books

How the World Made the West — a scuttling of civilisational myths

...sense of a historic identity and purpose in the world....

February 29, 2024

Nilanjana Roy

Travelling mindfully through the pages of a book

..., piles of paperwork and expensive visas — to the frenzied anxiety of feeling that you don’t have enough time to see all of the world....

April 8, 2024

The Long ViewKatie Martin

The perils of investing in the world of one trade

...This classic 60/40 portfolio — a mainstay of conservative asset management — is the mullet hairstyle of the investment world....

January 19, 2024

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