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Has Japan been an ant or a grasshopper?
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In Aesop’s fable, the grasshopper spends its summer singing, dancing and consuming. The assiduous ant toils away storing......
Leo Lewis
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The activist winding up Omega-maker Swatch
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In today’s newsletter:Activist calls time at SwatchAltice creditors band togetherMillennium maturesThe outsider hoping to......
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Joseph Nye, who coined the term ‘soft power’, dies aged 88
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Joseph Nye, one of the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners in the field of international relations and coiner of......
Myles McCormick in Washington
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Trump’s sovereign wealth fund idea is born of envy rather than sense
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The writer is a longtime Silicon Valley investorPresident Donald Trump, who dug a deep hole for the US with his tariffs,......
Michael Moritz
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The latest must-have in the super-prime market? A ‘longevity room’
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Every other day or so for the past 16 months, when Gary Shepherd has woken up in his Surrey home, he has padded slowly,......
Mark Ellwood
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China cuts key interest rate to 1.4%
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China has said it will cut its benchmark interest rate and reduce the amount of money banks need to hold as reserves, offering......
Cheng Leng and Arjun Neil Alim in Hong Kong and Ryan McMorrow and Joe Leahy in Beijing
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Mark Carney tells Donald Trump Canada is ‘not for sale’
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Donald Trump that his country was “not for sale” as he rejected the US president......
Ilya Gridneff in Toronto and James Politi in Washington
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Doing it for the kids: the residences being supercharged for teens
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“Everything is about the experience,” says Kevin Blary, fresh from his morning beach run and fizzing with energy and positivity......
Cathy Hawker
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How Nigel Farage has gained ground with trade union members
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On the eve of last week’s English local elections, the Trades Union Congress posted an Instagram clip aimed at wavering......
Jennifer Williams in Manchester, Jim Pickard and Anna Gross in London
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Bill Ackman completes quest to launch Berkshire Hathaway lookalike
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Bill Ackman has created a new acquisition machine, fulfilling his long-standing aspiration to create a conglomerate in the......
Antoine Gara and Sujeet Indap in New York
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A resurgent China should do the hard work now
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The writer is a professor at Cornell University, senior fellow at Brookings and author of ‘The Future of Money’To all appearances......
Eswar Prasad
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Hong Kong’s bull market leaves China behind
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Hong Kong’s bull market is leaving China behind, in a sign that a lacklustre economic recovery and trade tensions with the......
William Sandlund and Haohsiang Ko in Hong Kong
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Donald Trump’s threats push Canada to bulldoze its byzantine internal trade barriers
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Donald Trump may have done Canada a favour. By imposing sweeping tariffs on his northern neighbour — and threatening to annex......
Ilya Gridneff in Toronto
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US holidaymakers descend on Europe as overtourism fears mount
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Europe’s tourist hotspots are braced for a record number of visitors this summer as holidaymakers spurn the US and the Middle......
Mari Novik, Clara Murray and Marianna Giusti in London
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Transcript: John Bolton on the Iran war that wasn’t
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This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘John Bolton on the Iran war that wasn’t’Marc FilippinoAfter......
Marc Filippino and Gideon Rachman
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Where to visit (and where to avoid) for reasonably priced restaurant wine
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During the 1980s, when my husband was a restaurateur, we would argue about his wine prices. I would lobby for the lowest......
Jancis Robinson
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Jes Staley’s ‘serious failure of judgment’
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One thing to start: The US Treasury department has called on Congress to scrap a provision in Donald Trump’s flagship budget......
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Eric Trump opens door to political dynasty
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Eric Trump has said that “the political path” for a family dynasty “would be an easy one”, opening the door for another Trump......
Alex Rogers in New York
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Number of investment trusts falls by a fifth
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The number of UK investment trusts has fallen by nearly a fifth over the past four years as the industry comes under pressure......
Emma Dunkley and Maisie Grice
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Inside the private equity-insurance nexus
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Asset managers have it easy. The parties, the access, the spreadsheets. And the money isn’t bad. However, to keep the show......
Toby Nangle