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Retail’s last barbarian: the private equity group about to play hardball with Boots
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Ailing retailers like Walgreens Boots Alliance have scared off even the most daring Wall Street financiers. But that fear......
Amelia Pollard in New York
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For luxury goods empires, more is still more
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Like the exquisite yarn of the Andean vicuña, the conglomerate is becoming an exotic rarity. The corporate need for nimbleness......
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Asda and Morrisons struggle under weight of private equity ownership
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Asda and Morrisons, based a few miles apart in northern England, boasted of new chapters at the start of the decade when......
Laura Onita and Alexandra Heal in London
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Trump and the end of American soft power
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International relations is power politics. As Thucydides wrote more than two millennia ago, the strong do as they will and......
Joseph Nye
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The bulldozing mayor remaking ‘Africa’s capital’
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To some, she is a saviour, rehousing the poor and beautifying Ethiopia’s capital. To others, she is the “bulldozing mayor......
Andres Schipani in Addis Ababa
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Troubled ex-spyware fund braces for €125mn hit from soured Romanian deal
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The troubled private equity fund behind a controversial investment in Israeli spyware company NSO Group is bracing for a......
Euan Healy in London
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Brookfield’s internal economy of deals
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One thing to start: We founded Due Diligence nearly eight years ago, launching the newsletter at Tulane’s famed corporate......
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Dubai property rally closes in on pre-2008 record
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Dubai’s property market is racing towards a record bull run, with the Middle Eastern commercial hub’s buoyant economy and......
Chloe Cornish in Dubai
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Why the right love to wear a pocket square
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Alice Weidel, the co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, took to the stage at the close of last......
Ellie Violet Bramley
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Schroders ‘needs to do better’, says new chief
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Schroders’ new chief executive said “the business isn’t broken but it needs to do better” as he outlined plans to save hundreds......
Harriet Agnew in London
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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