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  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    UK tax
    The calculations behind Rishi Sunak’s potential inheritance tax shake-up

    Though unpopular, IHT is paid by few in UK and revenue lost would have to be made up for elsewhere

    Montage including a house and pound notes
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    UK economy
    What Sunak’s net zero pivot means for UK climate goals and the next election

    PM is pushing back key green targets as he seeks to draw a sharp dividing line between the Tories and Labour

  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    Brexit
    Can Starmer reset Britain’s Brexit deal?

    Experts say Labour leader has limited how far UK’s trading relationship with EU can be improved

    A montage of Keir Starmer, the EU flag and shipping containers
  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
    Natural disasters
    Catastrophic Libyan flooding fuelled by warming oceans

    An intense cyclone known as a ‘medicane’ led to more than 400mm of rain falling in 24 hours

  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    Oil
    Why oil is back to $90 a barrel

    Saudi Arabia and Russia have curtailed supplies in the face of record global demand

    Pump jack in Loco Hills region, New Mexico
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    ETF Hub
    Secretive active ETFs lose out to their fully transparent rivals

    The portfolio-shielding models had a strong start when they were approved in 2019, but have failed to gain traction

    Cathie Wood
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    US presidential election 2024
    US election 2024: Republican presidential candidates

    A rundown of the leading hopefuls and several long-shot contenders

  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    Coronavirus
    ‘We haven’t seen the end of Covid’: surge in cases to test health systems

    As vaccines are tweaked while new sub-variants emerge, the virus cannot be treated yet as a seasonal bug

    Health workers wear face masks as they walk out of a government hospital in Chennai, India
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    Renminbi
    Can China arrest the renminbi’s slide?

    Currency has fallen 5% this year but investors expect further declines

    A picture of Chinese bank notes
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    Fukushima nuclear accident
    How risky is Japan’s release of radioactive water from Fukushima?

    Planned discharge from stricken nuclear plant has sparked international controversy, but most experts say it is safe

    The plant surrounded by water tanks
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    Russian insurrection
    Russian insurrection: Prigozhin’s failed mutiny and the fallout

    A timeline of the Wagner militia’s uprising and what happened next

    Wagner group prepares to pull out from the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to Rostov-on-Don
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Semiconductors
    Why China remains hungry for AI chips despite US restrictions

    Nvidia’s processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives

    A montage showing Nvidia’s Hopper H100 unit, the Chinese flag and the Nvidia logo
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    FT Series
    The battery revolution

    This series examines the technology, corporate winners and losers, rivalries between battery systems and the future of recycliing

  • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
    German economy
    Can Germany fix its economy?

    Ukraine war, higher rates and sluggish trade aggravate longstanding structural problems in EU powerhouse

    A montage of workers fixing a Volkswagen vehicle overlaid with fluctuating red and blue lines
  • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
    Chinese economy
    Will the rest of the world feel China’s deflation pain?

    Falling prices will lower cost of imports but are unlikely to have a dramatic impact elsewhere

    A worker is pictured in a textile factory in Haian city
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    The indictment of Donald Trump
    The cases against Donald Trump

    Former US president entangled in at least six legal cases, including indictment related to attempts to overturn 2020 election

    Montage of Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Spanish politics
    Why Spain’s ‘power vacuum’ threatens the economy and EU progress on Ukraine

    Inconclusive election result stands in way of need to reduce Madrid’s budget deficit and advance other reforms in Brussels

    A montage of Pedro Sánchez in the foreground with a wind farm and a soldier on top of a tank in the background
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    How big is the risk of nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant?

    Robust design and recent safety measures boost facility’s resilience despite seizure by Russia, experts say

    A view of the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    Chinese economy
    What China’s economic measures mean in practice

    Details scant in politburo statement but markets welcome acknowledgment by Xi Jinping of growth headwinds

    Xi Jinping in front of the Chinese state symbol with an image of Chinese property on one side and of graduates and a chart line of youth unemployment on the other
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    FT Guides
    Artificial intelligence in business: an explainer

    Training machines to carry out human tasks will bring more efficiencies, job losses and risks. Here, FT journalists explain the potential of generative and God-like AI and the likely impact on industry sectors, in Q&As and graphics Supported by Infosys

  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
    AI in investment and financial services

    Technology can improve customer service, ID checks and fraud prevention but concerns remain over decision making and impersonation

  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
    Graphic: How machines learn

    Machine learning works in the same way as human learning: repeating a process and making adjustments after mistakes, to gradually improve outcomes

  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
    What are the risks of using AI in business?

    In the short term, the technology threatens to make employees redundant; longer term, the danger is existential

  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
    How will AI be regulated?

    New EU rules would make companies liable for misuse of the technology, but critics say regulators should only step in if needed

  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
    AI in law, consulting and professional services

    Lawyers and accountants charge handsomely for human expertise — but firms have still been embracing the technology

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