Maryland, State of

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

News updates from February 9: S&P 500 finishes above 5,000, Sunak notches capital gains of £1.8mn in 2023

Republican ex-governor to run for Democrat-held Senate seat in Maryland

...Though Maryland, which borders the nation’s capital, often leans left, Hogan was elected governor twice, spending eight years in the state’s top office until last year....

February 9, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

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

Baltimore

Big ships, big problems

...The product of four years of study with the Maryland Port Administration, the report recommends that the Corps dredge the West Seagirt Branch Channel to a depth of 50 feet and a width of 750 feet, even wider...

March 28, 2024

Insurance

Lloyd’s of London chief calls for quick insurance payouts on Baltimore bridge

...which part of the sector is liable....

March 28, 2024

ExplainerMaritime accidents and safety

The Baltimore bridge disaster: what happened and who will pay?

...Wes Moore, the governor of the state of Maryland, has declared a state of emergency after the elevated roadway’s disintegration into the Patapsco river....

March 27, 2024

Maritime accidents and safety

Search suspended for missing people in Baltimore bridge collapse

...Joe Biden, US president, said that the federal government would “pay for the entire cost” of reconstructing the bridge, and was preparing to send the state of Maryland “all the federal resources they need...

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

US Election Countdown

Donald Trump tightens his grip on the Republican party

...Trump was smug after crushing Nikki Haley in her home state of South Carolina....

February 27, 2024

Maritime accidents and safety

Biden administration warns of lengthy disruption at Baltimore port

...director of Clarksons Research....

March 28, 2024

News updates from March 26: Baltimore road bridge collapses; Trump’s social media business soars in market debut

Biden says federal government will rebuild collapsed Baltimore bridge

...The federal government would “pay for the entire cost” of reconstructing the bridge, the president said in a news conference on Tuesday, and was preparing to send the state of Maryland “all the federal resources...

March 26, 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

How To Spend It In...

Louis Sarkozy’s guide to Washington DC

...Today we have a pretty house just outside DC: I don’t like overdosing on city life but Natali does, so we found a compromise in Maryland, where we plant herbs and saplings from American Plant in our garden...

April 24, 2024

FT Magazine

What became of Rahile Dawut?

...But when she failed to surface, her inner circle went into a state of panic, searching for any information of her whereabouts....

April 26, 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

Letter

Letter: Baltimore disaster must address totality of risks

...The port operators, the shippers and ship owners, the Maryland Transportation Authority, as well as the local, state and federal governments are all stakeholders in this process, but it is not clear who...

April 9, 2024

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

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

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

Inside BusinessSujeet Indap

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

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

News updates from April 4: British billionaire avoids prison for insider trading; Italy seizes assets in EU fund fraud case

US centrist group No Labels drops presidential election bid

...No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down,” the centrist group said on Thursday....

April 4, 2024

Letter

Letter: Praise for a champion of sustainable agriculture

...Professor Alok Bhargava University of Maryland, MD, US...

October 11, 2023

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

ReviewMusic

Itzhak Perlman brings ‘In the Fiddler’s House’ to Bethesda, Maryland — review

...Last week, Perlman brought a live In the Fiddler’s House show to Bethesda, Maryland, in preparation for a multi-year, multi-country, multi-genre project to commemorate his 80th birthday in 2025....

October 2, 2023

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

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