Moscow approves sale of Carlsberg’s Russian assets for €300mn
Moscow has approved a €300mn deal to sell the Russian assets of Danish brewer Carlsberg to a local company, according to ...
Is your boss talking too much? AI can tell them
This is easier said than done. AI can help by making some of the bad habits we bring to meetings more obvious. Natural language processing tools can flag, for example, if certain voices are dominating ...
Keir Starmer, the operator, the fixer, not the visionary
It’s also a Starmery appointment for other reasons, as Jill Rutter notes in a good, balanced thread over on Bluesky: he’s state educated, “blokey”, an operator and a fixer, not a visionary. He is a ...
Cargill to cut thousands of jobs as part of sweeping restructuring
Cargill, the world’s largest agricultural commodities trader, said it was slashing 5 per cent of its 164,000-strong workforce as part of a sweeping restructuring effort to restore profit margins. The ...
Vietnamese tycoon told to repay billions in fraud case to avoid death penalty
Vietnamese tycoon Truong My Lan can avoid execution for orchestrating a $12bn fraud if she repays three-quarters of the misappropriated funds, a court ruled on Tuesday.
Nato’s Rutte says Ukraine needs more weapons, not new ideas
Nato leaders should focus all their efforts on sending more weapons to Ukraine so it can enter possible peace talks from a ...
The ESM ️ electronic bond trading
The ESM is the permanent successor to the European Financial Stability Facility, which was set up to help rescue various stricken Eurozone members back in the day. To finance its various loans to the ...
Transcript: The geopolitics of chips — Nvidia and the AI boom
James Kynge talks to Mark Bauer of JLL, Frank Eickenhorst of PhoenixNAP, Tamay Besiroglu of Epoch AI, Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis and the FT’s Tim Bradshaw ...
‘A memory to hold on to’: the new wave of bespoke house portraits
Increasingly given as presents, these commissions tell stories by building a family’s memories, secrets and in-jokes into their foundations ...
State of the dart — how a boozy hobby became a global phenomenon
The hero of the story is a 17-year-old boy. Raised in Warrington, north-west England, he likes kebabs, video games and Manchester United Football Club. He’s a normal teenager, cheeky as they often are ...
Are investment trusts still relevant?
The problem with trusts is that when investors are nervous or uninterested the share price can fall below the value of the assets held. If a trust has assets of, say, £100 and the shares trade at 90 ...
Postcard from Switzerland: Saas-Fee celebrates 40 years of Wham!’s Last Christmas
The small ski village where the British pop group filmed their classic video is making the most of the anniversary ...