Price v. Rivard

Scholz’s energy policies branded ‘toxic’ by German business chief

...The country has been plagued by high interest rates, low export demand and high energy prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022....

February 6, 2024

ReviewEconomics books

The limits of wealth — calling time on the super-rich

...In her own Dutch context, she takes about €1mn wealth level (twice the price of the average London flat) as the ethical limit we should personally be satisfied with, and €10mn as the political limit policies...

February 8, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

FT Alphaville

The Bank of England is still v v worried about Treasury basis trades

...For example, the BIS estimates that allowed leverage, defined as the contract price divided by initial margin, in five-year Treasury futures remains elevated but has fallen from around 175x prior to the...

December 6, 2023

Tefaf Maastricht 2024

Battle to keep sculpture in Britain highlights European museums’ struggles

...However, Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has placed a temporary export bar on the carving and given the V&A until June 14 to raise £2mn so it can match the price paid by the American institution...

March 2, 2024

HTSI

The rise of the supervan

March 31, 2024

Clearing & Settlement

Lessons from last autumn’s CCP ‘fire drill’

...This is a classic “dull but v v v v important” issue that rarely gets the attention it should, because a lot of people understandably lose the will to live as soon as you start talking about financial plumbing...

February 14, 2024

FT Live

Innovation in Wealth Management Summit

Augmented intelligence for client-centric services

HTSI

The seductive appeal of silvery pewter

...Prices for the more experimental Svenskt Tenn pieces, many by other notable 20th-century designers, are rocketing....

April 15, 2024

News in-depthChinese business & finance

China’s start-ups take on big global beauty brands

...The company said its prices are justified by its high packing costs and its Rmb1bn investment into research and development....

February 2, 2024

Arm Ltd

Arm’s an AI stock now. When’s the crash?

...It offers universal, standardised ways for companies to cut development costs while refusing to discriminate by price. The rule of thumb has always been that royalties are 5 per cent of the chip price....

February 13, 2024

Banks

Mike Mayo ❤️ Citi

...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....

January 2, 2024

US & Canadian companies

Private equity is in for rampant consolidation

...And finally To the V&A in London, where a new blockbuster exhibition, Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto, highlights both the designer’s revolutionary approach and her many links with Britain....

September 18, 2023

Blackstone Group LP

Blackstone plans deal spree to pre-empt market revival

...Blackstone plans to step up its dealmaking before a rebound in markets drives prices higher, the president of the private equity firm has told the Financial Times....

January 25, 2024

Skin in the GameStuart Kirk

S&P exceptionalism versus ‘expensiveism’

...But otherwise, give me a V-sweet C-suite job any time. As if anyone would....

February 9, 2024

Watches & Jewellery

Coco goes pop: London show puts Chanel jewellery in the spotlight

...She says Chanel raising its prices for new costume jewellery has boosted demand for vintage pieces, and that demand has pushed up prices on the secondary market....

September 1, 2023

Martin Wolf

For all its faults, democracy is still better than autocracy

...Are such declines perhaps a price worth paying for faster economic development? At the broadest level, this seems quite implausible....

April 2, 2024

FT Live

Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference

Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance

Interiors

Mingei, an extraordinary art that celebrates the ordinary

...“Conceived by anonymous designers, they are unadorned, utilitarian and offered at an affordable price — qualities traditionally shared by Mingei wares.”...

March 23, 2024

FT GlobetrotterWhere to stay in Zurich

Philippe Starck’s revamp of a grande dame: La Réserve Eden au Lac Zürich

...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....

February 26, 2024

The Big Read

Malaysia: the surprise winner from US-China chip wars

...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....

March 11, 2024

Tata Steel Ltd

Tata Steel to close last two blast furnaces in Port Talbot

...T V Narendran, Tata Steel’s chief executive, told the Financial Times the status quo was “not sustainable”....

January 19, 2024

US Treasury bonds

Three cheers for supply and demand

...The benchmark 10-year yield slid as much as 12bp after the Treasury’s refunding announcement, v FactSet....

November 1, 2023

OpenAI

Is ChatGPT good at day trading? Probably not

...Thin liquidity exaggerates overnight price moves that reverse during the subsequent trading day....

March 28, 2024

The Aesthete

Poor Things co-production designer Shona Heath talks taste

...My favourite building is the V&A. I had the chance to work on Tim Walker’s Wonderful Things exhibition in 2019, and spend a lot of time there....

March 1, 2024

Scoreboard

The sports payday made in Manchester Premium

...Sellers tend to lower their prices in the latter stages, while those in dire need of new blood are more likely to get desperate and bid up....

January 20, 2024

News in-depthGames industry

Games console industry tries to adapt to rise of free-to-play titles

...In the short term, its strategy of promotions and price discounts in several markets is showing signs of success....

August 16, 2023

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

Reckitt sales volumes fall as customers tighten belts

...Health was the best-performing category, with growth driven by the company’s “intimate wellness” brands — which include Durex, Queen V and K-Y — and improving performance in China....

July 26, 2023

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