Can margins expand even more?
There is a reason that margins might increase broadly, Andrew Lapthorne of Society Generale suggests: deflation in input costs.
South Korea crisis mounts as clock ticks on arrest warrant for president
South Korea’s anti-graft agency will seek to extend an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, as pressure mounted on law ...
Chinese equities and currency extend declines in rocky start to year
China’s equities and currency extended losses on Monday after a rocky start to the year, as weak economic data and ...
How Austria’s embrace of the far right could fracture the EU centre
Austria’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) appears to be on a glide path to the country’s chancellery, after negotiations among centrist parties collapsed and the moderate conservative People’s party ...
Axes of evil: love’s uncharted waters
Match Group — the owner of Tinder, Hinge, and some forty other dating apps — hosted its first ever investor day in December. The tl;dr was that AI is going to save the online dating industry, and this ...
FirstFT: Private equity to lobby Trump as industry seeks to tap retirement funds
We begin the week with a report on the private equity industry, which is preparing to lobby Donald Trump’s incoming administration to give it access to broad pools of capital it has not historically ...
Why has Elon Musk reignited debate over the UK rape gangs scandal?
Elon Musk has reopened the national scandal surrounding gangs of men who groomed, assaulted and raped girls across England. In dozens of messages posted on his X platform over the past week he has ...
Finland fuels children’s future with financial literacy and food
Finland aims to achieve the best financial literacy in the world by 2030, and projects such as Yrityskylä are a big part of ...
The infighting propelling Austria’s far right to power
Austria’s mainstream political groups promised to freeze the far-right Freedom party out of power after it won parliamentary elections last autumn. But the collapse of their coalition talks has put ...
World Cup award adds pressure to Saudi Arabia’s construction challenge
Saudi Arabia has launched real estate and infrastructure projects worth $1.3tn since Vision 2030 was unveiled in 2016, according to estimates by consultancy Knight Frank. These projects, such as the ...
Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear album review — vintage glam pop and flashes of audacity
The rock band’s sixth studio album has suitable swagger with lead singer Alex Kapranos singing with a showman’s relish ...
Why people are rejecting shoelaces
Yet that recurring question of whether we are seeing the death (or at least, the demise) of shoelaces reached a new peak recently, after I wear-tested a pair of On’s brand new marathon shoes, which ...