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Frieze LA 2024

The art fair’s new edition hits Los Angeles as dealers navigate a tumultuous market. Plus: LA’s new hot art district; an artist wrongly convicted of murder; and more

February 24, 2024

News in-depthFinancial & markets regulation

Bar is rising for companies’ disclosure of climate risk information

...Thousands of international companies will still face pressure to meet the higher bar for climate risk information set by Europe, despite the wider gap in global standards created by the new lighter rules...

March 13, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

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

Travelista

Six cool California hotels to book now

...state’s most beloved beach towns....

February 25, 2024

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Napa Valley is California’s wine barometer, an expensive one

...After a rainy start to the year, the hillsides were, unusually, brilliant green. Bright orange poppies, California’s protected state flower, dotted the verges....

April 20, 2024

HTSI

The sweet cacophony of the bar

...Charles Dickens – who was a discerning drinker – was enchanted by the ice culture he encountered in the States, as he recalls in this sonorous account of a bar visit from his travelogue American Notes (1842...

February 24, 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

The inequity method of accounting

...It hasn’t been so straightforward for the family who agreed in 2022 to sell its California supermarket Save Mart to the private equity firm Kingswood Capital Management, which valued the grocery chain at...

April 11, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Energy Source

The ripple effects of the electric vehicle revolution Premium

...This week, the International Energy Agency released hundreds of pages of reports on the state of electric vehicles and batteries. We sum up our three biggest takeaways....

April 25, 2024

Behind the Money podcast21 min listen

When M&A goes wrong

...Then, the buyer gets a business and the seller gets a check. Everyone’s happy. That’s not what happened when a private equity firm recently bought a California grocery store chain....

April 24, 2024

Live news: Moscow threatens to downgrade ties with US if Russian assets are confiscated

Harvey Weinstein’s conviction for rape overturned on appeal

...The Court of Appeals ordered a new trial. The decision does not affect Weinstein’s 2022 conviction in California. Read more here...

April 25, 2024

Letter

Letter: Chinese investors’ faith in the state is misplaced

...turning away from the market in favour of greater state planning....

December 15, 2023

UK politics opinion polls

UK general election poll tracker

...Labour’s poll lead over the Conservatives is the largest of any opposition party since 1997....

April 25, 2024

Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded

Biden and Trump win in California

...For the Republicans, California has 169 delegates up for grabs. Results were still pending in the state’s critical US Senate race....

March 6, 2024

Letter

Letter: How Israel should deal with its existential enemy

...Emeritus Professor Albion M UrdankUniversity of California, Los Angeles, US...

April 19, 2024

How To Spend It In...

Maria Sharapova’s guide to Santa Barbara

...I asked my friends for the best drive in southern California: they unanimously told me to take the 101 to Santa Barbara....

January 5, 2024

Super Tuesday: How the night unfolded

Three Democrats vie for US Senate seat in California’s most-watched race

...The most closely watched race in California is to fill the US Senate seat vacated by the death of Democrat Dianne Feinstein....

March 5, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

FT Magazine

What became of Rahile Dawut?

...Most remain behind bars. Rahile’s case, experts say, is now emblematic of the Chinese government’s crackdown on the Uyghur people moving from the re-education phase to long-term imprisonment....

April 26, 2024

News updates from February 1: Meta announces first ever dividend, Bank of England holds interest rates

GSK settles another California Zantac case

...The pharma major said on Thursday it had reached a confidential settlement with David Browne, resolving the case he had filed in California state court....

February 1, 2024

Frieze LA 2024

Design galleries proliferate in LA

...“We’re hoping to get more of our Nordic artists to come here to do residencies,” she says. “There’s a strong tradition of ceramics in California, and it would great to create work right here....

February 24, 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

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

US politics & policy

California primary race reveals splits among Democrats

...“Lee has played a great role in the election, reminding Democrats in California of the leftist perspective,” he said....

March 4, 2024

FT readers respond

FT readers respond: UK ‘pothole crisis’

...A range of these responses are published below. Join the conversation by sharing your views in the comment section. *Comments have been edited for length and style...

April 24, 2024

Letter

Letter: Could Nato bar President Trump as a security risk?

...In view of Donald Trump’s statement, warning Nato allies that he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” if alliance members failed to meet defence spending targets, might Nato...

February 15, 2024

United Talent Agency Inc

Hollywood power broker splits with UTA over $950,000 ‘special expenses’ fund

...A claim filed in a court in Los Angeles on Tuesday said the use of a “special expenses” fund of $950,000 after tax was an agreed part of his contract....

March 13, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Why the UK’s biscuit tax leaves a bad taste in the mouth

...It says a lot that George Osborne, the UK’s chancellor from 2010 to 2016, attempted to remake the relationship between citizen and state, but is equally remembered for trying and failing to introduce VAT...

March 29, 2024

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