State Of Louisiana

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

Singapore

Singapore gives top-level briefings to reassure foreign banks on stability

...investigation, the largest in the city-state’s history....

April 21, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

News in-depthMike Johnson

Inside House Speaker Mike Johnson’s conversion on aid for Ukraine

...In the last week of February, a large billboard appeared across the street from Mike Johnson’s home church in Benton, Louisiana....

April 24, 2024

Person in the News

Mike Johnson, another House Speaker under attack from his own side

...The first in his family to go to college, he earned a law degree from Louisiana State University....

April 12, 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

Thames Water

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

...cent of their money....

April 18, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

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

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...Former Post Office chair Henry Staunton used an “offensive and outdated term” about a candidate for a job, according to an independent probe into conduct at the state-owned group....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

Environment

‘Sacrifice zone’: booming US LNG sector leaves its mark on the Gulf

...Dozens other LNG projects have been proposed, most of them for them around the Texas-Louisiana border....

November 27, 2023

LexNatural gas

The worst of the gas glut is over for US drillers Premium

...Three regions produce 61 per cent of the country’s natural gas: Appalachia, the Permian and the Haynesville (mostly east Texas and Louisiana)....

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

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

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

Climate legislation

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

...Sixteen red states including Texas, Louisiana and Florida also last month sued the federal government over its decision to freeze approvals for new export terminals for liquefied natural gas along the US...

April 12, 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

On Wall StreetBrendan Greeley

The easy dream of someone else’s dollars

...Nothing about the restraint of silver dollars from Mexico spared the city of New Orleans or the State of Louisiana from the pain of bank failures....

December 23, 2023

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

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

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

News updates from January 11: US inflation edges up more than expected, Chesapeake and Southwestern to combine in $7.4bn deal

Chesapeake and Southwestern to combine in $7.4bn deal to create the biggest US gas producer

...Chesapeake and Southwestern operate in proximity in the gas-rich Appalachia in the US north-east and the Haynesville shale basin in the state of Louisiana....

January 11, 2024

UK housebuilding

State housing schemes in England have ‘materially underdelivered’ since 2020

...State housebuilding schemes in England have “very materially underdelivered” since 2020, according to a review of the government’s housing and regeneration agency, which criticised Whitehall for worsening...

April 8, 2024

Haiti

Haiti declares state of emergency after mass jailbreak

...Haiti’s government has imposed a 72-hour state of emergency and night curfew after gangs that control swaths of the capital Port-au-Prince over-ran two prisons and freed thousands of inmates....

March 4, 2024

Frieze LA 2024

Artist wrongly convicted of murder wins Frieze Impact prize 2024

...This year’s award goes to LA-based Gary Tyler, who was wrongly convicted of murder in 1975 and spent nearly 42 years in Louisiana State Penitentiary despite his sentence having been ruled unconstitutional...

February 24, 2024

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