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How Meta got over Silicon Valley’s disdain for dividends

...Apple stopped paying dividends in 1995, shortly before its co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the company, and started paying them again only in 2012, a year after Jobs died....

February 2, 2024

Equities

Small stocks, big problems

...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....

April 17, 2024

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Huawei’s latest surprise and an unexpected avatar Premium

...Apple has invested at least $1bn in microLED R&D and even made a push into the actual manufacturing of the cutting-edge display technology....

April 18, 2024

News in-depthPetrobras

Petrobras aims to transform Brazil into global energy power

...Pre-salt production rose from 41,000 b/d in 2010 to 2.3mn last year, fuelling record annual profits of R$188bn (US$39bn) and dividends of R$216bn at the company....

November 19, 2023

Due Diligence

Friends now, foes later: Sequoia’s drama at Klarna Premium

...Job moves Rothschild & Co has opened a new office in Riyadh as it courts business in Saudi Arabia. It will be run by Nasser Al Issa, who will be the country head....

February 20, 2024

FT SeriesHigher for longer

Can corporate America cope with its vast debt pile?

...“So many companies have really benefited greatly from the zero cost of capital,” says Greg Peters, co-chief investment officer at PGIM fixed income....

November 6, 2023

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News in-depthWalt Disney Co

‘Iger is stuck’: Disney chief debates future of Hulu and ESPN

...In the US, Hulu continues to operate as a separate service to Disney and is the home to edgier programming, such as R-rated films....

March 15, 2023

The Weekend Essay

Monet, the artist who changed how we see the world

...In 2018 Marshall’s “Past Times”, black figures picnicking and boating in reference to Monet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and river idylls, sold to rapper P Diddy for $21mn....

September 16, 2023

Due Diligence

Another pay drama starring Andrea Orcel Premium

...’ in government probe (FT) Warren Buffett defends buybacks to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders (FT) CD&R affiliates will acquire wealth manager Focus Financial in $7bn deal (Bloomberg)...

February 28, 2023

UK equities

The interminable wait for the FTSE 100’s entirely redundant record-high

...,” said Jacob Nathan, co-founder of Epoch Biodesign....

February 1, 2023

News in-depthLeveraged loans

US banks use thaw in markets to shift ‘hung loans’ off their books

...Adam Abbas, the co-head of fixed income at Harris Associates, said markets were “effectively” closed for triple-C rated companies looking to raise debt, raising the spectre of “a natural default cycle”....

November 22, 2022

HTSIHow To Give It 2022

The A to Z of stylish giving

...network systems, training and guidance; keep its Youth Zones open for at least four hours each day throughout winter; and offer at least 5,000 people a free cooked meal. burberry.com; onsideyouthzones.org P...

December 10, 2022

Rana Foroohar

Investors are learning to love industry again

...Asutosh Padhi, the managing partner for McKinsey North America, recently co-wrote a book with colleagues entitled The Titanium Economy, about these undervalued, over-performing middle market manufacturing...

October 3, 2022

The Big Read

How Apple tied its fortunes to China

...In the supply chain rankings of 2007, P&G, Toyota and Walmart all had a peer ranking score at least double that of Apple....

January 17, 2023

IPOs

Addentax and Starbox in the Magic Empire

...As Bloomberg pointed out at the time, that made it bigger than about a third of S&P 500 Index members. It didn’t last. The share price was largely wiped out on Thursday, plummeting 95 per cent....

September 8, 2022

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Wall Street shudders after seeing US inflation data

...The S&P 500 fell more than 4 per cent and the Nasdaq was down 5 per cent....

September 14, 2022

Markets

Powell’s reappointment: “four more brrrrrrrrrrrs”

...But given it’s 2021, we thought who better to get a reaction from than the great masses of online traders who spend their days on r/wallstreetbets?...

November 22, 2021

Global Economy

Sombre and uncertain mood descends on Davos

...“There are three R words right now: It’s Russia, it’s recession and it’s [interest] rates,” said Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser....

May 25, 2022

News in-depthFintech

How Brazil’s Nubank became a $30bn fintech

...Revenues rose 79 per cent to R$5bn ($896m) last year, while net losses shrank by a quarter to R$230m. Customer deposits increased 2.6 times to R$29bn....

October 27, 2021

FirstFT

FirstFT: Wall Street braced for further stock market falls

...R. Piet, Lewes, Delaware, US....

May 6, 2022

FT Magazine

A uniquely British festival of the working class welcomes its new hero

...Flanked by banners showing historic general secretaries, Lynch goes on to condemn the recent sacking of 800 P&O Ferries workers and the leadership of both main political parties before calling for co-ordinated...

July 22, 2022

ExplainerEvergrande Real Estate Group

Evergrande liquidity crisis: why the property developer faces risk of default

September 9, 2021

Markets InsightIan Goldin

How herd behaviour drives action on r/WallStreetBets

...At the time, their size, relative to the S&P 500, meant any influence was small, and r/WallStreetBets was largely dismissed as a curiosity....

February 10, 2021

Letter

Letter: Shipowners urge more countries to back move to ‘green’ fleets

...The International Maritime Research and Development Board (IMRB) is a $5bn programme, governed by the IMO, to co-ordinate and fund applied R&D to catalyse the introduction of zero-carbon fuels and technologies...

June 2, 2021

#techFT

Climate crisis brings venture capital money back to clean tech

...Henrietta Moon, the co-founder of Carbo Culture, says it is difficult to build any company, let alone one focused on a new technology. “The best help we can get is from VCs,” she says....

October 22, 2021

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