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Venture capital investment
Silicon Valley’s General Catalyst closes in on $6bn fund for tech start-ups
...The 24-year old firm — an early investor in payments company Stripe, social media company Snap and French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral — could close its latest fund as soon as next month, according...
April 28, 2024
InterviewTelegraph Media Group Ltd
Lucy Frazer demands speedy resolution to Telegraph saga
...Our culture is the best in the world and we don’t want the French stealing a march on us.”...
May 3, 2024
FT Live
TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web
Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
Artificial intelligence
French AI start-up Mistral secures €2bn valuation
...Others involved in the funding round include tech giants Nvidia and Salesforce, French bank BNP Paribas and US venture capital firm General Catalyst....
December 8, 2023
Renewable energy
Wall Street turns to ‘solar grazing’ sheep in its push to go green
Big business teams up with ranchers to trim around solar panels and win over local communities
April 10, 2024
Investing in funds
JPMorgan blames JPMorgan for suppressed volatility
...That said, once the strategies’ delta goes to ~1 (i.e., call delta to zero), dealers would no longer be suppressing volatility / buying on the move lower via their long gamma hedging....
March 20, 2024
Mistral AI
AI start-up Mistral in talks to raise €500mn at €5bn valuation
...French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral is in talks to raise €500mn in a deal that would more than double its valuation to at least €5bn, following proposals from multiple investors seeking to invest...
April 19, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
UK energy
South Korean state energy monopoly in talks to build new UK nuclear plant
...Centrica is among companies that have expressed an interest in backing the new facility at Sizewell, which is being jointly developed by French-state owned energy company EDF and the UK government....
May 12, 2024
Nuclear energy
Paris seeks UK loan guarantee after Hinkley Point nuclear plant costs soar
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
January 31, 2024
European banks
European bank shares hit six-year high on surging profits and returns
...“The timing and pace of interest rate cuts will affect the banks’ performance in 2024,” said Rafael Quina, head of French, Italian and Portuguese banks at Fitch Ratings....
March 30, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Prime ministers’ legacies — Sunak, Truss and Brown
...I think she said we weren’t pure capital-E establishment, more of what you called a “flying buttress” to it....
April 19, 2024
ReviewMusic
Five stars for Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s celebration of George Gershwin
...Thibaudet set up the encore with a bawdy joke about the difference in the number of words that rhyme with “love” in French (74, apparently) and English (five)....
December 15, 2023
News updates from January 9: False SEC post swings bitcoin price, Eurozone unemployment falls to record low
What to watch in Europe today
...German industrial production and French trade data for November are also announced....
January 9, 2024
UK public policy
UK to ban disposable vapes as Sunak warns of ‘endemic’ impact on youth
...In the year to the end of July, £1.3bn worth of disposable e-cigarettes were sold in Britain, according to NielsenIQ data....
January 28, 2024
UK crime
India’s business elite sounds alarm over Rolex thefts in Mayfair
...Police have reported a spate of mobile phone and watch snatching carried out by moped and e-bike gangs....
February 6, 2024
ReviewMusic
Carmen, Royal Opera House — top-class voices heat up tepid production
...Sarah Dufresne and Gabrielė Kupšytė, both Jette Parker Young Artists, sparkle as Frasquita and Mercédès, and there is a fine native French duo of smugglers, especially Vincent Ordonneau as Remendado....
April 8, 2024
FT Live
Investing in America
Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness
Tuesday, 10 DecemberHybrid Conference
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: David Bowie, Hillary Clinton and ‘Peaky Blinders’
...The name of which tennis shot derives from the French for “flight”? What’s the theme song of the TV show Peaky Blinders?...
March 29, 2024
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House Museums #61: Château de Rosa Bonheur
...Her admirers included Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Victoria, Georges Bizet, John Ruskin and Delacroix himself. Then she fell off the face of the earth. “How could such a person be forgotten?”...
March 30, 2024
News updates from December 22: UK economy shrinks in Q3, Fed’s preferred measure of inflation falls
Canadian government approves sale of HSBC unit to RBC
...RBC is also required to boost or maintain French, Mandarin and Cantonese language services....
December 22, 2023
Europe Express
Nerve-testing times pose question of European nuclear deterrent Premium content
...In the AAAS report, George Perkovich explains that the US, Russia and China are developing techniques to threaten targets with malware as well as kinetic and nuclear payloads....
April 13, 2024
European equities
Europe’s ‘Granolas’ fuel record stock market surge
...pharma companies GSK and Roche, Dutch chip company ASML, Switzerland’s Nestlé and Novartis, Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, France’s L’Oréal and LVMH, the UK’s AstraZeneca, German software company SAP and French...
February 23, 2024
ReviewBooks
Alphabetical Diaries — a self-revelatory quest with Sheila Heti
..., which avoids any use of the letter e....
February 5, 2024
News in-depthArtificial intelligence
‘We compete with everybody’: French AI start-up Mistral takes on Silicon Valley
...Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, co-founder of La Famiglia, an early Mistral investor that merged with US-based General Catalyst last month, believes the French start-up’s emergence can be a “real Eureka moment...
November 7, 2023
News in-depthClimate legislation
Landlords in a bind as France imposes tough new emissions rules
...“Everyone is looking at the French example, to see how it plays out,” he said. “It’s a good idea on paper even if it’s a bit early to judge the results.”...
January 1, 2024
News updates from November 1: Fed holds interest rates, CVC postpones European IPO plan
What to watch in Asia today
...French president Emmanuel Macron visits Kazakhstan. China takes over as UN Security Council president....
November 1, 2023
ReviewDance
The Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells — soloists shine in classic production
...His gilded baroque interiors conjure the French court without ever sliding into ancestor worship or pastiche and he achieves massive, palatial effects in flexible, tourable form....
April 26, 2024

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