Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spotify has found its groove. News this week that the Swedish music streaming service had paid more than $10bn in royalties last year highlight just how big it has become — and how much more … Read more
Look months ahead: gardeners and investors benefit from this sound guiding principle. So do bedders-out. In two months’ time we will be fussing about summer bedding plants. Prices will be up and offerings more restricted. By sending off now for seeds and sowing them appropriately, you will widen your choices, cut your costs and have … Read more
For Oscar Piastri and Jack Doohan, their home Grand Prix in Australia on Sunday marks the start of different journeys. Last year, Piastri helped McLaren become Formula 1 constructors’ champion for the first time since 1998. Now he wants to win the drivers’ title. “I do think I can become world champion this year,” he … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world One of the many notable things about the beating under way in US stock markets is that US government bonds are not really picking up the slack. This is not a good sign. … Read more
Crime is not the only use case for crypto. But reading the 2025 Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report, it appears to be one that is booming. As its authors note, crime existed before the advent of cryptocurrencies. However: Historically, tracing these financial relationships required infiltrating closed networks, navigating opaque banking systems, or relying on siloed intelligence. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The backlash against corporate environmentalism may have its roots in the US, but its tendrils have started creeping across the Atlantic. As a result, some financial companies that previously seemed keen to tackle social problems … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Why do banks even exist in a world of burgeoning private credit? Theoretically because cheap customer deposits allow traditional institutions to lend profitably. As the old joke goes: banking is as easy as 1-2-3. Pay … Read more
Few tales in corporate finance are as audacious, bewildering, or downright entertaining as that of the company formerly known as MicroStrategy. This once-humdrum business-software vendor has transformed into a high-octane bitcoin investment vehicle under the flamboyant leadership of Michael Saylor, its co-founder and executive chair. The company, now called Strategy, holds nearly 500,000 bitcoins, equivalent … Read more
Every so often a reader suggests I pen a book about investing. They’re obviously confusing you with someone else I hear you laugh. Why don’t you call it: “How to miss a fortune in US stocks.” Very funny. Anyway, relax. I wouldn’t dare. An old colleague of mine on the Lex column, Spencer Jakab, has … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. I hear you, brother. The Clockwork Orange is squatting over all our lives, shocking us with plot twists almost hourly. You wake up in the morning just wondering what has happened overnight. At least … Read more