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March 22, 2024

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

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

Film

Girls State, the documentary offering ‘a crystal ball on the US’s political future’

...Now, with Trump running for re-election, McBaine and Moss have returned with Girls State, exploring an equivalent girls’ camp in Missouri in the summer of 2022....

March 22, 2024

ReviewFilm

Girls State film review — teenagers spring surprises in politics camp documentary

...But where Boys State moved from youthful political talent show into a study of group psychology, the new film soon pulls on to a track of its own....

April 11, 2024

News in-depthAutomobiles

How VW and Toyota became the targets of an emboldened US union

...Missouri, a Midwestern state, lacks a right-to-work law but union organisers are facing other forms of resistance....

April 4, 2024

UK politics opinion polls

UK general election poll tracker

...The Financial Times’ UK poll tracker combines voting intention surveys published by major British pollsters ahead of the general election expected this year....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

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

Thames Water

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

...cent of their money....

April 18, 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

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

Israel-Hamas war

Qatar reconsiders mediator role between Hamas and Israel

...state over the weekend....

April 18, 2024

Unions

VW workers in Tennessee vote to join union in win for US labour movement

...The Republican governors of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas released a joint statement opposing the UAW on Tuesday, calling the union “special interests looking to come into our state and threaten...

April 20, 2024

Post Office Ltd

Ex-Post Office chair accused of using ‘offensive’ term about job candidate

...Former Post Office chair Henry Staunton used an “offensive and outdated term” about a candidate for a job, according to an independent probe into conduct at the state-owned group....

April 18, 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

News updates from April 8: Millions watch solar eclipse; Elon Musk predicts AI will overtake human intelligence in 2025

Millions expected to watch total solar eclipse

...It will enter the US in Texas and pass through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, according to Nasa....

April 8, 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

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

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

ReviewMusic

Chappell Roan, Heaven — romantic disappointments and erotic possibilities drive urgent pop

...The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is Roan’s debut studio album and while it hasn’t troubled the charts yet, the alliance of its driving pop beats, Missouri-meets-Manhattan attitude and lyrics both...

December 11, 2023

ESG investing

US investment funds pull $13.3bn from BlackRock in anti-ESG campaign

...Texas, Florida, Missouri and other GOP-led states followed suit with anti-ESG initiatives and divestments....

March 24, 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

News updates from March 5: China targets 5% GDP growth in 2024, Gold and Bitcoin hit record highs

Berkshire Hathaway unit added to class-action suit against big US property agents

...The case was brought by Michael Ketchmark, the attorney who last year won a $1.8bn verdict against the National Association of Realtors including HomeServices over commissions paid by Missouri homeowners...

March 4, 2024

News updates from April 3: Iger defeats Peltz in Disney proxy war; Eurozone inflation falls to 2.4%

What to watch in North America today

...Fed governor Adriana Kugler will deliver a speech in Missouri about the outlook for the US economy. Janet Yellen: The US Treasury secretary will depart for China....

April 3, 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

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