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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 31, 2025

Bad ‘hard' data creeps in
And replies on CoreWeave

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 31, 2025

CoreWeave's IPO tested the waters — and missed the mark
Wishful thinking results in a faceplant

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 31, 2025

Fiscal tweaks won't solve Britain's growth problem
The government must embark on a much more radical programme of structural reforms

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 31, 2025

Nature calling: ‘Does anyone know how hard it is to make an app?'
Recording daily encounters with nature increases our connection to it. But could a writer more interested in owl pellets than AI be up to the task of creating an app to up the ante?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 31, 2025

The realpolitik of Trump's tariffs
The president's trade policy is about power and security, not economics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 31, 2025

The niche minerals now surging in price as defence spending booms
Materials needed for everything from bullets to advanced fighter aircraft face acute supply squeezes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 31, 2025

Ask a Stylist: find your forever trenchcoat
Know your body shape and proportions, and you will be making an investment that will pay off for years to come

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 30, 2025

It's time for the EU to solve its Orbán problem
The European Commission has leverage over the obstructive Hungarian premier — it should use it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 30, 2025

Globalisation will triumph over Trump
Economic incentives outweigh politics in the long run

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 30, 2025

The use and abuse of investment bank bonuses
HSBC's sacking of bankers without a payout is part of a wider reset of incentives

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 30, 2025

Air travel is ready for the wheelie-suitcase surcharge
Free carry-on luggage may seem a bargain, but it often leads to a forced trip to the baggage carousel anyway

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 30, 2025

How to keep sick people in employment
Support often comes too late — after workers have left jobs and when they have little chance of going back

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 30, 2025

It's a WhatsApp world at work now
And that's not always a good thing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 30, 2025

The deep eccentricity of Donald Trump
The US president's rather bizarre character is crucial to understanding why he is so successful

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 29, 2025

Paddington Bear represents the Britain we like to think we are
Small and nice, the character forms part of our national myth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 29, 2025

The perfect palliative balm of Grey's Anatomy
A medical drama celebrates 20 years of sex and surgery

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 29, 2025

The great European disentanglement from US stocks has only just started
A long rebalancing of investor portfolios is likely to be under way that could be painful for America

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 29, 2025

Boys and young men are in crisis — but it's adults who need educating
The real problem is one that hand-wringing over ‘toxic masculinity' won't solve

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 29, 2025

Anti-Americanism is a mug's game
Boycott Tesla if it makes you feel better — but the best critiques of Trump and Musk will come from the US itself

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 29, 2025

How does Mouton Rothschild stay at the top?
You need to do everything better every year, says Sereys de Rothschild

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 29, 2025

You can't grow an economy by crushing aspiration
Few will weep for second-home owners paying extra council tax — but the successful know when they're not wanted

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

The perils of capitulating to Donald Trump
This week has brought cave-ins to the White House but also signs of a fightback

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

The UK high street is no match for WHSmith's wanderlust
It is really decades since the stores were a destination, particularly in provincial towns

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

Aid's grim counter-revolution will prove self-defeating
Arguments for slashing overseas development assistance in favour of defence fail on their own terms

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

It's finally time for joined-up European markets
In principle, the arguments for deeper and less fragmented capital markets are obvious

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

Can Rachel Reeves start a retail investment revolution?
The chancellor's Isa reforms must be designed with Gen Z in mind

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

The inbetweeners: what to plant to span waning winter and surging spring
There is still much to admire in hardy hellebores and heathers — but budding magnolia and camellia are starting to steal the show

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

Ask Green: Where do you go when you're lonely?
Sainsbury's cafés offered elderly people and young families a place to mingle over a hot cuppa. What to do now?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

Valuing CoreWeave
Plus the US fiscal impulse

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

The Trump oil dilemma
Some advisers now view the price of the fossil fuel as a crucial anti-inflation tool

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

The Trump plan for oil
Some advisers now view the price of the fossil fuel as a crucial anti-inflation tool

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

Why hasn't AI taken your job yet?
New research shows ChatGPT's inability to cope with ‘messy' multitasking is still protecting some human workers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

Why I want US shares to leap like Nureyev once more
Other stock markets are outperforming, but I'm eyeing a chance to sell

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

Elon Musk is wrong about GDP
The tech tycoon is not the first to misunderstand what gross domestic product is meant to measure

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

How Europe can make it easier for start-ups to scale
Entrepreneurs and investors are rallying behind a call for a voluntary pan-European legal framework for fledgling companies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

Hotori, London: Jay Rayner's new favourite yakitori restaurant
The beak-to-tail menu is as good if not better than many in Tokyo

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 28, 2025

Should I help my daughter pay for her son's school fees?
I'm worried about how to structure payments fairly as I also have other children.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

CoreWeave fails IPO ‘hair test'
Newly public companies always carry some grit, but data centre operator's downsized listing shows it has a particularly high number of wrinkles

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

CoreWeave fails the IPO ‘hair test'
Newly public companies always carry some grit, but the data centre operator's downsized listing shows it has a particularly high number of wrinkles

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

US auto tariffs help Chinese EVs to race ahead
BYD's technological advances show where the centre of innovation now lies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

US car tariffs help Chinese EVs to race ahead
BYD's technological advances show where the centre of innovation now lies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

What CoreWeave investors can learn from a dotcom IPO
The differences and similarities with Global Crossing are worth examining

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

Car tariff wacky races will still produce some winners
Brands such as Tesla that manufacture in the US and rely on domestically-produced parts stand to benefit

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

‘Not being Liz Truss' does not a growth strategy make
In rushing its fiscal fences, the Spring Statement risks otherwise well-meaning reform being botched

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

India wants to offer a third way for global tech
After a decade of successful digital policies, the country is keen to claim a role as an alternative to US and Chinese governance

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

Think twice before attacking corporate sponsorship of the arts
Activists should ask themselves what will replace the funding that is lost

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

How a US discount retailer learned the hard truth about low prices
Family Dollar was a bet on spending by the poorest urban Americans, and they are not doing so well

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

The bogus trade rationale for the Signalgate attacks
Bombing the Houthis won't help global commerce but Trump's auto and shipping protectionism will certainly damage it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

Putin's imperial mission destroys freedom in Russia
Victory in the Ukraine war would serve as the perfect justification for autocracy at home

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

The power of sleep in a crisis
Do CEOs always need to be on duty to do a good job?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

Can France really lead ‘the little west'?
As America retreats, Paris dreams of bringing the ‘grande nation' out of retirement

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

What's the point of fiscal rules?
Don't let the budget rule tail wag the democratic dog

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

Poor consumer sentiment is still just talk
And it may never turn into action

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

Japan's apex survival instinct is put to the test
The erosion of the post-1945 world order has rattled the country

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

Ben & Jerry's fudge has come back to bite Unilever
The ice-cream maker's strange legal agreement with its acquirer 25 years ago was bound to cause trouble

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 27, 2025

European companies rush to tap defence spending boom
Industrial groups are converting production facilities or adapting existing technology for military use

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

A 25% tariff on Europe is only fair
The US needs to act over the competitive advantage the EU gives its companies in areas like value added taxes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

Jefferies kicks off Wall Street's surprisingly sombre spring
Considering its quirks, it is no surprise the firm is seen as a harbinger of the market's fortunes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

The UK chancellor's fiscal holding operation
The government needs to make bold choices ahead of the autumn Budget

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

Should Brits brace for tax rises in the Autumn Budget?
No tax changes in the Spring Statement, but if the search for growth proves fruitless they'll soon be back on the agenda

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

From miserable to mediocre: the Reeves challenge continues
History suggests the OBR may, once again, have been persuaded to be too optimistic at a time of global turmoil

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

Reeves can still raise UK business spirits — on a shoestring
Despite the gloom, Labour has another shot at changing the narrative through its promised industrial strategy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

Subsea sabotage puts European power at risk
Interconnectors, which transmit electricity between countries, are even more difficult to repair than fibre optic cables

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

Japan plays host to a clash of capital and culture
Activist investors are challenging a corporate model marked by underused assets and low returns on equity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

Personal finance experts react to the Spring Statement
From another crackdown on tax collection, to Isa threats and investing in defence stocks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

Signal fiasco should remind us that complacency invites catastrophe
The risk of a US intelligence breakdown is even more serious than this week's error suggests

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

‘Not quite enough' may prove to be Labour's epitaph
Managing to do anything that could add to GDP is welcome, but it will not get the government off the hook

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

The philosophy behind Trump's Dark Enlightenment
An English magus of anti-democratic neoreaction has become a touchstone for the alt-right

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

China's developers start to climb out of their self-dug hole
Grinding through all of the country's property excesses will still take years

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

There is no Bessent put in the Treasury market
And people are still buying a lot of US stocks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

The return of Jay Gatsby and other literary second lives
A century on, F Scott Fitzgerald's lovelorn millionaire is reimagined as a female influencer — the latest beloved character to be reshaped for new readers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

US strategic ambiguity on Taiwan won't work any longer
Washington must be clear with Beijing about the consequences of an assault on Taipei

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

Gold is the real ‘Trump put'
But the craziness from the White House has not turned me into a gold bug yet

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

An ominous shadow falls over mRNA technology
Once researchers begin wondering whether their government might pull the rug from under them, the damage is done

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 26, 2025

The ECB must remain pragmatic in setting rates
R-star debate becomes less useful as monetary policy approaches neutral level

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

The amateurism of the Trump White House
‘Signalgate' will send shockwaves through the US security apparatus and foreign allies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

Shell proves it's the best of a not-so-slick bunch
Latest strategy day should be enough to satisfy investors over its immediate future

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

StubHub IPO channels Taylor Swift, but not her star power
The online ticket marketplace is charging a high price for admission to its debut

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

How 23andMe's gene-testing dream turned recessive
The biotech group created a revolutionary technology but it never hit on a sustainable business

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

The secondary ‘tariff man' cometh
Using trade duties to extract favours will be a feature of Donald Trump's bid to reshape the international order

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

Trumponomics is putting lipstick on a policy pig
How do technocrats expect the needed macroeconomic adjustments to occur?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

Europe can't repeat its mistakes in Turkey
As Ankara's future hangs in the balance, EU leaders must fill the void left by Washington and defend democracy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

Cheap oil is not the Trump administration's top energy priority
Plus politics versus markets in Turkey

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

‘More brutal than buying it': bewilderment over Trump's Greenland obsession turns to fear
Nuuk and Copenhagen's attempts to placate US president have given way to anger

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

A white-collar world without juniors?
Professional business models may need to change if novices lose the opportunities to learn and progress when AI takes over their work

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

British Airways tries to regain its halo with a new first-class seat
The UK flag carrier has called again on the London design studio that created a revolutionary product

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

Wishful thinking on climate won't make it so
Badenoch's ‘realistic' approach to net zero is, in practice, that both politicians and the planet agree to put all this behind them

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

The tyranny of the top sheet
In the US, debate rages over this additional layer betwixt bottom sheet and duvet. It's yet more evidence that the obsession with hygiene is out of control

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 25, 2025

Trump's dogsled diplomacy has spooked Greenland
Nuuk and Copenhagen's attempts to placate the US president have given way to anger — and fear

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

Building companies huddle up to counter US housing chill
Homebuilders, which began the year on an optimistic note, are now underperforming the broader stock

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

Trump's flawed plan to bring business to America
The threat of tariffs will not spark a manufacturing renaissance

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

RWE's brush with activism could prove short and sweet
Much of what the market dislikes about the German utility is on its way to being fixed

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

Wisconsin Supreme Court race is the first electoral test for Trump
The race has become a proxy battle between those who love and hate the president

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

Klarna's ‘smoooth' outlook is starting to look bumpy
Investors should not bank on life as a public company being frictionless

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

Trump's economic and political threat to Mexico
The US would suffer from the blowback if it impoverished its southern neighbour

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

Better regulation depends on quality as well as quantity
Rather than cosmetic mergers, a central unit should insist on slimmed down, effective bodies — we've done it before

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

Private equity's struggles
Are they cyclical or structural?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

Pensions risk: the downside of weight-loss drugs
The health benefits could be so extreme that it upends the annuity market, hitting retirement incomes and insurers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

The end of American exceptionalism goes way beyond Trump
It has been building, and is likely to be unravelling, for a long time

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 24, 2025

The rise of Eurozone bond yields outside Germany is unwarranted
It might be time to consider a pause in unwinding the ECB's pandemic-era asset purchasing programme

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