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March 22, 2024

Bridge: Silence from opponent marks partner with key card

...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game East could have raised to 2S — and many would — but, at this vulnerability, it seems a risky option. West led K♠....

March 20, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

Futures contracts

Goldman and Citadel Securities back Lutnick’s renewed tilt on futures market

...September’s planned launch of futures trading on FMX will mark a third attempt by the Cantor Fitzgerald chair to break the stranglehold of Chicago’s CME Group over the vast Treasury futures market....

April 25, 2024

InterviewLunch with the FT

Writer Francis Spufford: ‘I’m a sucker for a redemptive arc’

...Rebecca Watson is a novelist and the FT’s assistant arts editor Follow @FTWeekend on Instagram and X, and subscribe to our podcast Life and Art wherever you listen...

December 22, 2023

City of London

Gove pauses City of London plan to demolish old Museum of London

...Gove suffered a High Court defeat last month when judges overturned his decision to block the demolition of the Marks and Spencer store at Marble Arch....

April 17, 2024

ReviewVenice Biennale

Venice Biennale 2024 is a rapturous celebration of unfamiliar global artists

...Emblematic is Osmond Watson’s expressive portrait of a Jamaican boy with piercing eyes and languid air, “Johnny Cool” (1967)....

April 18, 2024

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

ReviewAlbums

Green Day revive rock-and-roll stupidity in Saviors

...It was a mark of outsiderdom, idiocy as punk rebellion. Except their songs and band persona were actually whip-smart. It was a clever form of stupid....

January 19, 2024

Residential property

Notting Hill’s grandeur (and a touch of grunge) keeps homebuyers coming

...Buyers looking for cheaper homes have been looking at the area’s less polished fringes, says Watson....

March 14, 2024

HTSI

The seductive appeal of silvery pewter

...early British pewter ever to come to auction, one of the prize lots was an unusually large wide-rimmed charger from the mid-17th century, engraved with an elaborate hunting scene and the maker’s touch, “W.B...

April 15, 2024

The Week Ahead

Opening arguments begin in Trump trial

..., PepsiCo Q1, Philip Morris International Q1, RWS Holdings HY, Seagate Q3, Shimano Q1, Spotify Q1, Taylor Wimpey AGM & trading update, Tesla Q1, Texas Instruments Q1, United Parcel Service Q1, Visa Q2, W...

April 21, 2024

US & Canadian companies

The Proxies 2023: Where are they now?

...The Gordon Gekko Company Ranch Award 2023 Winner: W.M. “Rusty” Rush, Rush Company Despite the eye-popping inclusion of allowances for a car, an aircraft, a cell phone and a ranch, W.M....

March 27, 2024

News in-depthTechnology regulation

Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids

...Mark Riccobono, president of the National Federation of the Blind in the US, said that, though lawsuits are needed to protect disability rights, his association tries to work with companies to improve their...

April 7, 2024

Edward Luce

Biden’s polite Trumpism on China

...When Donald Trump came to office, he scrapped the US-China strategic and economic dialogue that was set up by George W Bush and expanded under Barack Obama....

April 17, 2024

Letter

Letter: How Biden’s pick tempers Wall Street’s appetite

...Mark Zashin Short Hills, NJ, US...

September 13, 2023

The Big Read

The painful slump in Hong Kong property

...“Both residential prices and office rents will find it hard to rally like they [once] did,” predicts UBS analyst Mark Leung....

May 8, 2024

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

Architecture

Stirling Prize shortlist marks return to unassuming UK architecture

...Architects Witherford Watson Mann have carried out a meticulous internal rebuilding of the Courtauld Gallery within the 18th-century shell of Somerset House, restoring old rooms and circulation spaces as...

September 6, 2023

News in-depthSupreme Court US

Trump gives US Supreme Court its biggest election test since Bush vs Gore

...“Any decision will be perceived by the loser as a political decision,” said Mark Graber, professor at the University of Maryland School of Law who filed a brief in support of Colorado....

February 7, 2024

Energy Source

Rising petrol prices create fresh headache for Biden Premium

...That marks a stark turnaround from just a few months ago when Democrats boasted of a slide in pump prices that they hoped would help convince sceptical voters to give Biden another four years....

April 11, 2024

ReviewAlbums

Jungle: Volcano — a solid summer soundtrack

...This album’s tracks are all around the three-minute mark: instantly ready to hit the dancefloor and snappy enough to swiftly move along....

August 11, 2023

Axel Springer SE

Politico and Bild owner pays €776mn in dividends to investors including KKR and CEO Döpfner

...Abi Watson, a senior research analyst at media consultancy Enders Analysis, said it appeared that all of the company’s earnings were being passed to shareholders....

January 11, 2024

ReviewVisual Arts

Paintings’ forgotten Black faces step back into history in Unnamed Figures — exhibition review

...Now, after a decade of cultural and ideological change, she looms in the conversation, standing out as a mark of all we once ignored....

February 7, 2024

The Week Ahead

Pakistan elections, peak earnings season and lunar new year

...Celebrations will ring out across Asia and beyond this Saturday with the beginning of the next lunar year — the year of the dragon for most countries that mark the occasion....

February 4, 2024

Autumn Statement

Hunt’s planning proposals fall short, say industry executives

...Mark Booth, co-founder of housebuilder Hayfield, said the money fell “short of the wider reform of the system we need”....

November 22, 2023

Scoreboard

Why Saudi Arabia’s tennis rally is just getting started Premium

...She holds the all-time scoring mark in college basketball for men and women....

April 6, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: Musk promises shareholder vote on Tesla incorporation move

...The results come a day after Mark Zuckerberg’s public apology to the families of people who said they had been harmed by his social media platform....

February 1, 2024

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