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Chinese state banks are lenders to Thames Water’s parent company

...Two Chinese state-owned banks hold a crucial role in the future of Thames Water, as part of a group of lenders involved in a stand-off over debt at the parent company of Britain’s largest water utility....

April 4, 2024

Singapore

Singapore gives top-level briefings to reassure foreign banks on stability

...investigation, the largest in the city-state’s history....

April 21, 2024

FT Live

Business of Football Summit

The global gathering of leaders in football and finance

News updates from April 2: Biden speaks with Xi, Fed’s Mester raises long-term rate outlook

Person in Texas infected with bird flu after exposure to dairy cattle

...State and federal health officials have been investigating suspected cases of H5N1 bird flu in cattle across Texas, New Mexico and Kansas in recent weeks....

April 1, 2024

News updates from April 1: Israel accused of air strike on Iranian embassy; US manufacturing sector expands for first time since 2022

Person in Texas infected with bird flu after exposure to dairy cattle

...State and federal health officials have been investigating suspected cases of H5N1 bird flu in cattle across Texas, New Mexico and Kansas in recent weeks....

April 1, 2024

UK politics opinion polls

UK general election poll tracker

...Labour’s poll lead over the Conservatives is the largest of any opposition party since 1997....

April 25, 2024

Energy Source

The ripple effects of the electric vehicle revolution Premium

...This week, the International Energy Agency released hundreds of pages of reports on the state of electric vehicles and batteries. We sum up our three biggest takeaways....

April 25, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Chinese society

China’s ageing tech workers hit by ‘curse of 35’

...The curse of 35 is a source of major anxiety for tech workers....

April 23, 2024

JPMorgan Chase & Co

Russian court orders seizure of $440mn from JPMorgan

...Last summer, a Russian court froze about $36mn worth of assets owned by Goldman following a lawsuit by state-owned bank Otkritie....

April 24, 2024

US Election Countdown

Opening salvos in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial

...And today, the president will visit Trump’s adopted home state of Florida, one week before its new six-week abortion ban goes into effect....

April 23, 2024

News updates from April 2: Biden speaks with Xi, Fed’s Mester raises long-term rate outlook

What to watch in North America today

...Fedspeak: Federal Reserve governor Michelle Bowman will deliver a virtual speech at a workshop on the future of banking hosted by the central bank’s Kansas City branch....

April 2, 2024

News updates from September 21: Rupert Murdoch to step down as Fox chair, BoE holds interest rates

GM lays off 2,000 workers in Kansas due to ‘ripple effect’ of Missouri strike

...The Detroit carmaker said that because workers walked out at a plant in Wentzville, Missouri, three hours away, the assembly plant in Kansas City faced a shortage of critical components....

September 20, 2023

US presidential election 2024

Florida voters to decide whether to protect abortion rights

...At the same time ballot measures protecting abortion access have passed with overwhelming support in both conservative and swing states, from Kansas to Michigan....

April 1, 2024

News updates from September 20: Fed holds rates at 22-year high, UK inflation falls to 6.7%

GM lays off 2,000 workers in Kansas due to ‘ripple effect’ of UAW strike

...The Detroit carmaker said that because workers walked out at a plant in Wentzville, Missouri, three hours away, the assembly plant in Kansas City, Kansas, faced a shortage of critical components....

September 20, 2023

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Delaware, Inc agonises about Musk backlash as its lawyers seek changes

...The lawyers are members of the Delaware state bar association that customarily makes such proposals to update the state’s corporate law....

April 23, 2024

ReviewFiction

Caledonian Road — Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-Britain novel

...If this is a state-of-the-nation novel, O’Hagan paints a bleak portrait....

March 28, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

US-China relations

China warns Blinken US must choose between ‘co-operation or confrontation’

...It was not clear whether Blinken would see Xi, whom the US secretary of state last met in Beijing in June last year....

April 25, 2024

FT readers respond

FT readers respond: UK ‘pothole crisis’

...For others, Britain’s pockmarked roads symbolise a broader problem — a chronic mismanagement of public funds....

April 24, 2024

UK local elections

UK ‘pothole crisis’ threatens Conservative party ahead of local elections

...For a party that is “proudly pro-car”, in the words of transport secretary Mark Harper, the state of Britain’s roads is a serious problem, reflecting on years of constraints on the local councils charged...

April 16, 2024

Letter

Letter: Exhibit A: Appalling state of Russia’s court system

...The scenes at the Russian court (“Four suspects appear in court as Russia mourns concert attack dead”, Report, FT.com March 24) show the appalling state of justice there: beaten and humiliated defendants...

March 27, 2024

Thames Water

Thames Water lenders face losses of up to 40% in event of nationalisation

...cent of their money....

April 18, 2024

Chinese business & finance

Chinese state-owned bank seeks liquidation of property developer Shimao

...The involvement of a prominent state-owned bank signals a new level of impatience among creditors as a cash crunch for property developers continues to worsen....

April 8, 2024

UK housebuilding

State housing schemes in England have ‘materially underdelivered’ since 2020

...State housebuilding schemes in England have “very materially underdelivered” since 2020, according to a review of the government’s housing and regeneration agency, which criticised Whitehall for worsening...

April 8, 2024

Haiti

Haiti declares state of emergency after mass jailbreak

...Haiti’s government has imposed a 72-hour state of emergency and night curfew after gangs that control swaths of the capital Port-au-Prince over-ran two prisons and freed thousands of inmates....

March 4, 2024

Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction in New York overturned on appeal

...If it’s the former president of the United States or the most storied Hollywood producer of our generation,” Aidala added....

April 25, 2024

Scoreboard

Golf’s power balance resets Premium

...Last Sunday, the city’s National Football League franchise, the Ravens, narrowly lost their bid for a berth in the Super Bowl, following defeat at the hands of defending champions, the Kansas City Chiefs...

February 3, 2024

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