Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financials myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Private equity groups ramped up activity in Europe last year, taking advantage of the continent’s economic woes to snap up big companies at depressed valuations. The total value of European buyout deals worth more than $1bn
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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. The first trial stemming from a wave of UK class action antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech is due to start on Monday as Apple faces a £1.5bn legal claim it levies “excessive and unfair” charges
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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. Baby boomers and users of weight loss drugs suffering from “facial sagging” are flocking to injectable aesthetic treatments and boosting sales, according to dermatology group Galderma.  The Swiss company, which was spun out from Nestlé
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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. I’ve been sceptical that artificial intelligence will radically remake labour markets in the short term, in part because so much hype comes from the tech industry itself. But in the last couple of months, I’ve
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A flight engineer performs a test flight in a CAE Inc. 7000 Series Boeing Co. 737-800 flight simulator at a CAE facility in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. Christinne Muschi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Company: CAE Inc (CAE) Business: CAE provides simulation training and critical operations support solutions in Canada, the
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Waiting for the Tube, I see a poster for an upmarket gym chain. Locations? “City of London. High Street Kensington. Dubai.” What a shame to choose a setting that is so disfigured with bad
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Early this May, an airline pilot, two entrepreneurs and a government minister will wait for the call to mobilise. The British group’s gear will already be at Everest base camp alongside Lukas Furtenbach, an Austrian mountain guide. As soon as he declares that a weather window is about to open, his clients will dash to
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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” is the important question posed by the Roman poet Juvenal, translated by the English author Alan Moore as “Who watches the watchmen?”. But it is perhaps a question with a complacent implicit assumption. It presupposes that it is possible to watch the watchmen — and all that one needs to do
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“The risks to the budget we are facing include stock market volatility, uncertainty around federal policy and tariffs, which could have some impact on California,” said Finance Director Joe Stephenshaw.California Department of Finance The devastating fires affecting Los Angeles took center stage Friday when California’s finance director presented Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed $322.2 billion budget.
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<img src=”https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/21116027/thumbnail” width=”100%” alt=”chart visualization” /> Municipals could not ignore the sharp selloff in U.S. Treasuries Friday following the hotter-than-expected jobs report as both markets saw losses across the curve. Equities also closed with large losses as more market participants expect the data to temper Federal Reserve rate cuts.  The December jobs report took a
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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. The wealthy are accustomed to choosing private healthcare and private schooling, but now private divorce is an option too. Thanks to intense delays in waiting for court appointments and unwanted publicity once they get them,
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Consumers face a darkening outlook across their borrowing and investments due to a UK debt market sell-off that has deepened since the new year. Yields for UK government bonds, or gilts, along with US Treasuries and other sovereign bonds, have risen as investors expect interest rates will remain higher for longer due to stickier-than-expected inflation.
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