State Of Alabama

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

Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded

Trump wins Alabama primary — AP

...Donald Trump has won Alabama’s Republican primary, according to the Associated Press. The race was called with less than 1 per cent of ballots counted, with Trump getting 88 per cent of votes....

March 6, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

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

News updates from April 5: US jobs growth outstrips forecasts in March; Thames Water parent company defaults on debt

Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama latest in US to call for vote to join UAW

...Workers at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama have called for a vote to join the United Auto Workers union, part of a wider campaign to unionise foreign-owned auto plants that has also targeted Toyota and...

April 5, 2024

Republican Party US

Alabama lawmakers vote to protect IVF after controversial court ruling

...Trump called on the state legislature in Alabama to “act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF” in the state....

February 29, 2024

News in-depthUS politics & policy

IVF ruling puts reproductive rights back at heart of US politics

...Trump called on the state legislature in Alabama to “act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF” in the state....

February 23, 2024

Live news: UK’s higher than expected borrowing casts shadow on tax cut plans

JD Sports looks to deepen US reach with $1.1bn bid for Hibbett

...Alabama-based Hibbett has 1,169 stores located in 36 states across the US. In the year to February, it generated net sales of $1.7bn and pre-tax profit of $131.6mn....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management North America

New models for the next age of fund management

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

Travel

From Alabama to Wyoming: how I joined America’s 50-state club

...While we were in Mobile, Alabama, for New Year’s Eve, there was a shooting in a crowd just a few streets from where we were having dinner....

December 21, 2023

Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded

Polls for seven states shut in spurt of Super Tuesday closings

...Voting booths in seven states have closed, marking the end of polling in almost half of the states taking part in Super Tuesday....

March 6, 2024

News in-depthAutomobiles

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

...“The Alabama model for economic success is under attack,” wrote Alabama governor Kay Ivey on the state commerce department’s blog in January, calling car manufacturing one of Alabama’s “crown jewel industries...

April 4, 2024

JD Sports Fashion PLC

JD Sports to deepen US reach with $1bn bid for Hibbett

...Alabama-based Hibbett has 1,169 stores located in 36 states across the US. In the year to February, it generated net sales of $1.7bn and pre-tax profit of $131.6mn....

April 23, 2024

Climate legislation

Republican states step up legal threats to Biden’s climate agenda

..., West Virginia’s attorney-general, said after his state and others including Alabama and Georgia filed their case last month....

April 12, 2024

News updates from September 5: Oil rises above $90 a barrel, Spanish women’s football manager sacked

Court rejects Alabama electoral map for diluting black voting power

...of state....

September 5, 2023

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

Thames Water

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

...cent of their money....

April 18, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

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

Investing in funds

State Street’s SSGA warns investors on additional costs of T+1

...However, the board of the State Street Global Advisors Luxembourg Sicav, an open-ended investment fund structure, told investors earlier this month that it will not reduce the settlement cycle of its funds...

April 17, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Qatar reconsiders mediator role between Hamas and Israel

...state over the weekend....

April 18, 2024

News updates from September 20: Fed holds rates at 22-year high, UK inflation falls to 6.7%

UAW workers at Mercedes-Benz supplier ZF strike in Alabama

...The Alabama workers say they need higher wages and better health care benefits similar to the employees of the Big Three, though their contract negotiations are separate....

September 20, 2023

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

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

Live news updates from July 31: Eurozone inflation falls to 5.3%, Birkenstock considers September IPO

Biden nixes Trump plan to move Space Command to Alabama

...The move by the current president was heavily criticised by Alabama Republicans as brazenly political and designed to punish a conservative state....

July 31, 2023

Live news updates from August 1: US credit rating cut, Trump indicted for attempt to overturn US election

Biden nixes Trump plan to move Space Command to Alabama

...The move by the current president was heavily criticised by Alabama Republicans as brazenly political and designed to punish a conservative state....

July 31, 2023

Transcript

Transcript: Swamp Notes — How do you win Pennsylvania?

...So we’ve covered the Alabama in the middle bit. But you do have these major metropolitan areas on either side of the state, which are huge centres of population and all the rest that comes with it....

April 20, 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

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