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Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: ‘The Pillar of the Cloud’, iacta alea est and a haircut
...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
February 16, 2024
ReviewScience fiction books
Space fills the generation gap — the best new sci-fi books
...writer with Nigerian heritage — adroitly blends high fantasy and West African tradition, rituals and folklore, and with this, his very entertaining debut, he joins the likes of Nnedi Okorafor and Tade Thompson...
April 8, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
ObituaryFinancial services
James Robinson III, American Express executive, 1935-2024
...Actor Fred Thompson, who later became a US senator, portrayed Robinson in the movie version of the book....
March 21, 2024
Letter
Letter: In insane times, we all need a bit of gonzo journalism
...The list of books on the US electoral system, as recommended by FT specialists (Life & Arts, March 23) inexplicably omits Hunter S Thompson’s masterpiece Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72....
April 5, 2024
Fiction
James by Percival Everett — a master at the peak of his powers
...movie American Fiction) to 2020’s Telephone — the story of a grief-stricken geologist-slash-paleobiologist published in three separate versions — Everett has often invited readers to consider their own...
April 3, 2024
US employment
US jobs growth of 303,000 outstrips forecasts and weighs on rate cut bets
...Stocks advanced, with the S&P 500 closing 1.1 per cent higher to recoup almost all of its fall on Thursday that marked the biggest drop since mid-February....
April 5, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
FirstFT
FirstFT: Global M&A drought ends as blockbuster deals double in first quarter Premium content
...Futures contracts tied to the value of the Vix index — the so-called fear gauge that measures expectations of near-term swings in the S&P 500 — are pricing in a rise in market stress in the weeks before...
March 28, 2024
War in Ukraine
US and UK launch crackdown on Russian metals trade
...The move against Russian metals follows the G7’s campaign to curb Moscow’s revenues from crude and petroleum exports, including through a price cap on seaborne oil trades involving western shipping servicers...
April 12, 2024
World
FirstFT: Uber chief unlocks $136mn in shares
...Khosrowshahi was hired in 2017 from Expedia, where he was once the best-paid chief executive in the S&P 500....
February 29, 2024
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Museum of Modern Art, Andrew Carnegie and Brangelina
...Between 1995 and 2002, who was the third host of BBC1’s The Generation Game, following Bruce Forsyth and Larry Grayson? Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
January 19, 2024
High Speed Two Ltd
Planning applications jump fourfold along course of HS2
...Their research found that since the project was greenlighted in 2017 planning applications in a 1.5 mile radius of HS2’s new stations and depot in the West Midlands rose by 66 per cent compared with just...
February 17, 2024
Special ReportThe Business of Formula One
Can Max Verstappen’s domination prove bad for F1’s business?
...In the most dominant season by any driver in F1’s 74-year history, Verstappen has won more than 80 per cent of the races....
November 24, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: Swamp Notes — Is it the economy, stupid?
...Inflation is down, jobs are up, and the S&P 500 is continuing its joyride. And that must mean that voters are feeling pretty good about President Joe Biden, right? Right?...
February 10, 2024
Media
CNN names former BBC and New York Times head Mark Thompson as chief
...Thompson is no stranger to controversy. During his eight-year tenure as director-general of the BBC, he cut more than 6,000 jobs and faced scrutiny from the likes of James Murdoch....
August 30, 2023
ReviewScience fiction books
From the multiverse to a steampunk London — the best new sci-fi books
...The Marvel films have mined the idea for storylines, likewise another superhero movie, The Flash; it was also central to 2022’s mind-bendingly unique Oscar-winner Everything Everywhere All at Once....
February 19, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
James Henderson
When yesterday’s company heroes move into recovery mode
...James Henderson is co-manager of the Henderson Opportunities Trust, Law Debenture and Lowland Investment Company....
December 1, 2023
James Max
Rich People’s Problems: Should I be clothes shopping in the sales?
...You’re better off going to the revitalised M&S and getting a pair for £25. Did I just say that? However, despite the renaissance at M&S, its own branded shirts are still terrible....
January 25, 2024
777 Partners
Everton FC bidder 777’s funding structure starts to unravel
...Additional reporting by Josh Noble and James Fontanella-Khan in New York...
March 12, 2024
Marks & Spencer Group PLC
M&S wins legal challenge against government over Oxford Street store
...James Souter, a partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys, called Friday’s judgment an “embarrassment” for the government, “not least because of the public perception on the costs incurred”....
March 1, 2024
Disrupted Times
Inflation eases in the US and eurozone raising hopes of rate cuts
...Shares in New York were higher in late-morning trading, with the S&P 500 up 0.2 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 0.4 per cent higher....
March 1, 2024
Data visualisation
And the winner is…
...Chart 1 is the market cap of the Magnificent Seven (aka the Yankee GRANNNOLASS) as a percentage of the S&P 500. Yeehaw!...
February 26, 2024
US economy
US economy defies recession fears with 3.3% growth in fourth quarter
...US stocks and bond prices moved higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 gaining 0.5 per cent....
January 25, 2024
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Glasgow Prestwick airport, Beverly Hills and Trooping the Colour
...Which 1989 Gus Van Sant film stars Matt Dillon as Bob Hughes and William S Burroughs as a priest?...
November 24, 2023
FirstFT
FirstFT: Biden to call for higher tariffs on Chinese steel imports
...Ted Pick, who took over from longtime chief James Gorman in January, presented a bullish outlook at the bank’s results yesterday....
April 17, 2024
News in-depthJohn Lewis Partnership PLC
How John Lewis and M&S are faring in the battle for Middle England
...[but] in the most recent period, we’ve started regaining overall market share, so that pendulum has swung,” said James Bailey, who runs Waitrose, on Thursday....
March 16, 2024

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