Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private equity firms once had a script, of sorts. Buy an asset, load it up with debt, fix it and then flip it. But in recent years, weak M&A markets and soldered IPO windows have … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is founder and chief executive of Trivariate Research Analyst ratings on stocks are a regular feature in financial news coverage. Upgrades, downgrades and price target changes can often create volatile one-day price movements … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Why put all your eggs in the same basket, when you can put them in someone else’s? That is the message from the four daughters of Fred “Big Chicken” Adams, collectively the family behind the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Friday’s blistering spat in the White House produced one winner. On Monday morning, European defence stocks including Germany’s Rheinmetall, France’s Thales and BAE Systems shot through the roof. Expectations of government spending have pumped up … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Venture capitalists have a concept they call the “power law” — the idea that the bulk of returns in a portfolio comes from just a few investments. CoreWeave, a US data-centre operator that has filed … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The five-way roundabout under the Oxford bypass near BMW’s Mini factory is a stiff test for any driver. But the self-driving Ford E-Transit passenger van in which I am riding navigates its way deftly through … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Consulting firms have long thrived on the inefficiencies of the public sector. In the US, they are called in to help the government perform all kinds of functions, from beefing up cyber security … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Professor Eric Talley may soon have a surprise summer project: a major rewrite of his long-running syllabus for his core class on corporate law at Columbia Law School. The standards for US mergers … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. Yesterday was rough. It began with the ISM manufacturing survey for February, which showed new orders falling into … Read more