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   NEWS: FT.COM - COMMENT & ANALYSIS
FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

AkzoNobel does a lacklustre job of painting by numbers
Investors are acting as if a merger with rival Axalta is a non-starter

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

Denmark is a flawed model for UK asylum policy
Britain's ‘pull' factors may make hardline policies less of a deterrent

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

Trump's little British helpers
Nobody should be surprised that the US president has the BBC in his sights

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

How much of the market is AI?
The S&P 500 is narrow, but not one-dimensional

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

Labour needs a way out of the infernal circle of immigration policy
Politics today is about ‘open vs closed', but the UK government's approach risks appeasing no one

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

UK offers rich pickings for activists
Companies may wish they could lift valuations without being bothered, but the cage-rattling stands to benefit investors

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

The great British revival of Mr Kipling cakes
A nostalgic brand invented by an advertising agency in the 1960s has led Premier Foods' recovery

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

The UK offers rich pickings for activists
Companies may wish they could lift valuations without being bothered, but the cage-rattling stands to benefit investors

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 18, 2025

What nostalgia for the 1990s leaves out
Huge improvements in the decades since are a reminder that even really knotty problems can get better

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

The Fed's delicate balancing act over liquidity
Optimism and greed complicate the central bank's decisions during market disruptions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

Fed's delicate balancing act over liquidity
Optimism and greed complicate the central bank's decisions during market disruptions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

Struggling WPP needs to separate the rough from the smooth
Despite the obvious value of the ad group's media-buying division, a bid would be anything but straightforward

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

Labour's hotchpotch Budget plan
Relying on a jumble of tax rises will only make Reeves' task more difficult

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

A nuclear meltdown at Zaporizhzhia would imperil the entire region
An electrical failure at the Russian-occupied power plant would be worse than Fukushima

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

Trump's 50-year mortgages are poor deal for homebuyers
Without supply increasing, even allowing Americans to pay for their homes over a century would not make housing affordable

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

Why Ireland is paying its artists to create
Government money is being funnelled into stipends with no strings attached

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

The scramble for Europe is just beginning
As the EU struggles to defend its interests, outside powers play divide and rule

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

How to hide from a bubble
It ain't easy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

UBS vs Switzerland: time for pragmatism
It is not in the country's interests for its biggest bank to be uncompetitive

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

What happens when housing supply is driven by markets not Main Street
Home prices in America won't come down without systemic reform

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

Trump should not offer Saudi Arabia one-sided security guarantees
A defence pact that is not mutual will do nothing to advance America's global interests

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 17, 2025

Europe needs to act now on its metals vulnerability
Economic sovereignty and security depend on access to minerals and the ability to smelt and refine them

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 16, 2025

The absurdity of bankers' retirement fund targets
Caution around the savings needed to stop work reflects an insecurity that is hard to shift

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 16, 2025

Jihadism and Russia: a toxic mix in the Sahel
West needs a strategy to counter southern spread of instability into coastal states

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 16, 2025

Britain's Budget must put growth first — here's how
Rachel Reeves can break the UK's fiscal ‘doom loop' by backing business and workers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 16, 2025

Coalitions of the willing are Europe's path to ever closer union
A more pragmatic form of federalism could be the key to unlocking progress on important issues

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 16, 2025

Advice to chief executives: pick up a book
If Elon Musk is ‘uncultured', a false opposition between literature and business may be to blame

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 16, 2025

A new spectre looms over democracy: prediction markets
They offer a troubling opportunity to manipulate public perceptions of the outcome of political events

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 16, 2025

How the Joe Biden of India won
The chief minister of Bihar was re-elected by a wide margin despite his obvious infirmity and stalled progress

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 16, 2025

In ending the penny, Trump lightens pockets in a good way
The use of small denominations has fed into debates over the public's changing attitudes to payment

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 16, 2025

Can UK restaurants spice up prospects for career waiters?
Challenges of a revolving workforce prompt industry to look at more stable staffing models

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

AI has delivered a chart hit — but what do we miss?
Breaking Rust's conquest of country sales doesn't alter the fact that recycling material makes these songs generic

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

If private credit breaks, insurers will fall under the microscope
Rising holdings of the asset class could lead to problems when the next downturn comes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

Skims puts a $1bn price on keeping up with the Kardashians
Shapewear brand's $5bn valuation factors in a premium for the founder's star power

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

The fantasy of political assassin as hero
The trial of Shinzo Abe's killer is testing the country's moral limits

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

Pacifist Japan confronts a political assassin
The trial of Shinzo Abe's killer is testing the country's moral limits

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

Companies still need IPOs
Despite the increasing supply of private capital, going public is still an important step in the life of a business

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

The irresistible rise of libertarian eugenics
Social Darwinism is making a comeback in the US — this time wrapped in the language of freedom

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

Have you switched to private yet?
The new rules of cool

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

The boundless thrill of a tiny restaurant
Four tables good, forty tables bad

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

Why California's Santa Barbara wine country deserves more recognition
Its lighter, fresher wines are a relative bargain compared to superstar neighbours Napa and Sonoma

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

I had no business buying a derelict cabin — but rebuilding it changed my life
Buying the tiny broken-down hut in Washington State was done on a whim. Repairs and renovations hammered home a new sense of purpose

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

A thrilling introduction to the food of Hunan - Jay Rayner reviews Fiery Flavors in Southwark
A chilli-doused Chinese culinary adventure in the shadow of Canary Wharf

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 15, 2025

A thrilling introduction to the food of Hunan — Jay Rayner reviews Fiery Flavors in Southwark
A chilli-doused Chinese culinary adventure in the shadow of Canary Wharf

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

Who's funding Silicon Valley's data-centre dream? It might be you.
A large part of the investment pouring into AI is being financed by debt of the kind that lines millions of nest eggs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

The UK government is running out of credibility
A chaotic week has raised the risks around this month's crucial Budget

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

Labour has shredded its claim to competence
A chaotic week has raised the risks around this month's crucial Budget

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

Stockpickers: Applied Nutrition, Oxford Instruments, Vodafone
Our experts discuss which companies to buy, sell or hold this week

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

Trump's $1bn BBC threat isn't about the law — it's political theatre
Opting for Florida's courts as the battlefield, not the UK, is key to understanding the entire gambit

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

The government's latest reversal shows that Labour has no plan
The long roar of speculation about the Budget has already damaged market confidence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

Should we just give up now it's winter?
Modern life isn't very indulgent of just going back to bed. But there's nothing wrong with doing it from time to time

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

The bond market crashes the AI party
The grown-ups have officially arrived

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

Young adults are growing increasingly economically dislocated
A disconnected class is taking shape, but is absent from the headline statistics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

Why Trump's team is betting on stablecoins
The administration sees these digital assets as a tool in the fight against de-dollarisation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

That's annoying — Japan is no longer cheap
Topix trades at a discount to peers but is still historically low, despite recent rally

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

Is it time to rethink board tenure?
The ‘nine-year' limit for UK directors should not be seen as a hard rule

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

It is time for a rethink on board tenure
The ‘nine-year' limit for UK directors should not be seen as a hard rule

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 14, 2025

Football investors face gruelling second half
Firms that got in early enough made some quick gains, new arrivals will need to play for longer

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

Brain-dead Labour retreats to its comfort zone: campaigning
Downing Street's bizarre war on itself is a symptom of a government whose ideas dissolve on contact with reality

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

India and Pakistan need mediators not arms suppliers
The countries that helped broker peace earlier this year are now selling advanced weapons to the nuclear-armed neighbours

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

The curious rise of Pakistan's military strongman
Asim Munir is strutting the world stage but has much to prove at home

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

AI bubble trouble talk is overblown
For the foreseeable future, the market is facing a shortage of capacity — hardly the conditions that spell imminent disaster

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

The golden age of US credit card rewards may be at an end
Freebies, it turns out, were never really free

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

AI concentration does not breed strength
The assumption that partnerships and circular investments will boost growth is economically and historically misguided

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

To see how the US credit boom could end, turn to Chapter 7
Growing popularity of rarer type of bankruptcy filing could signal a late-cycle economy and anxiety among rescue lenders

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

How Reeves can deliver a Budget for business and workers
Like Gordon Brown's ‘prudence for a purpose', this chancellor should prioritise tax reform for transformation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

How Norway jeopardised its integrity overnight
Oslo abruptly changed the ethics rules for the world's largest sovereign wealth fund

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

How democrats can fight back
Fifty years after Franco's death, autocracy is going strong

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

Does the K-shaped economy theory even make sense?
Plus, more on memory stocks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

How Ryanair makes a virtue out of unpopular ideas
Ditching paper passes could benefit the wider industry

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

Europe is falling short in its quest for global economic clout
Brussels is struggling to adapt to a conflict-ridden world trading system

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

Can a homebuyer demand a price cut over a mistake on a form?
My parents made an error when selling their house and the buyer has asked for £50,000 off the purchase price

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

Nigeria's inept diplomacy is to blame for Trump's military threats
The US can browbeat Africa's most populous country because it no longer needs or wants anything from its erstwhile ally

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

How populism became popular
It appeals more to a way of thinking than to a set of ideas — but is it just wrong?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

Why populism became popular
It appeals more to a way of thinking than to a set of ideas — but is it just wrong?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 13, 2025

Ask a Stylist: how to choose men's boots
Trousers are roomier, and that calls for footwear with a bit more heft

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Japan's insurers are staying at home for better returns
With local yields rising, domestic investments are becoming more attractive than some international alternatives

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Neural data may be the most precious commodity of the century
While presenting opportunities, a new field of technology threatens our freedom of thought

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

The EU needs to rethink its AI rules
Overly onerous regulation could leave Europe as an also-ran after the US and China

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Running the BBC has become an impossible job
The broadcaster should rethink the role of director-general and reclaim editorial independence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Tackling social media's ‘monster' problem
Banning addictive apps for children is not about restricting free speech, but defending free will

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

India bets on the global concert economy
International artists are putting on big shows but the country needs less red tape and more venues

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

M&A bankers: what's your spirit animal?
Kitten-like deals market of past couple of years has turned more tomcat of late

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Novo's M&A failure could nurture future successes
Obesity drugmaker came unstuck in bid for Metsera, but its two-step tactic is worth studying

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

The truth about the UK economy in 2025
It is not the story that the chancellor would like to tell you

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

How the American dream turned out to be pay to play
Big brands from Disney to American Express are profiting from economic divisions and making them wider

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

How K-shaped is the economy, really?
Prospects, more than wealth or income, have become more unequal

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Chimpanzees are better at reasoning than we thought
New research shows that they can weigh evidence in a rational way

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Markets should pay heed to the affordability squeeze
Political pressure in response to public anxiety will demand policy responses

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

The NHS is in crisis — should I pay for private medical insurance?
This year, Bupa clobbered me with a 15 per cent price increase. I cancelled the policy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Please Rachel, don't sacrifice workers' pensions
Dismembering salary sacrifice is a short-sighted tax grab that will accelerate the UK's retirement savings crisis

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Could European stocks beat the US to the finish line?
The neck-and-neck race may just go to the underdog this year

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 12, 2025

Epstein is not going away
The issue is Trump's Achilles heel — and the US president knows it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 11, 2025

Europe's companies need cash, but the retail market needs safeguards
If household savings flow into VC and private equity, the broader economy may benefit but investment risks are borne by individuals

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 11, 2025

What if the AI race isn't about chips at all?
Availability of electricity to keep models running is becoming the critical factor in technology's development

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 11, 2025

Warnings from the private credit wobble
Investors and regulators should sharpen scrutiny of risky lending practices and interlinkages

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 11, 2025

The global south does not need a new credit rating system
Reliable data and better investor relations offer a more promising path to reducing capital costs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 11, 2025

The global south does not need a new credit ratings system
Reliable data and better investor relations offer a more promising path to reducing capital costs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 11, 2025

Bricks vs clicks: Wall Street revives its bets on bank branches
America's biggest lenders are building again in a race for consumer deposits

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