How sustainability is reshaping the Middle East financial landscape
As sustainable finance continues to gain traction globally, it is surging across the petrostates of the Middle East. Viewed ...
UK government scraps funding for stadium upgrade in Northern Ireland
The UK government had promised to help fund the upgrade but Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn said in a letter to the region’s communities minister Gordon Lyons that building costs had risen ...
Letter: Make employers take on the aged — and not just as drivers!
We already have 1mn people at home, using savings too early, who will run out of money. They will age 10 years quicker than they should and be two and a half times more likely to get Alzheimer’s. We ...
Letter: Elite economics schools are a cosy echo chamber
The concentration of the profession of economics in the hands of “elite” schools is an intellectual tragedy (“Is economics in need of trustbusting?”, FT View, August 31).
Letter: Direction of travel
Thank you for the wonderful account of your cross-country road trip (“Just don’t mention Thelma”, Travel, August 17). I did a similar trip last year, driving 12 days with a friend from New York to ...
Letter: Wasteful methods can’t be brushed under the carpet
From Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain ...
Letter: Insect with long leg and short leg — 7 letters
From Giles Clarke, Former Chair, England and Wales Cricket Board, Wrington, North Somerset, UK ...
Letter: In finance, models should be consistently wrong
Blind use of “wrong” models and analytics in finance, marketing and other areas is all too prevalent and dangerous as evidenced by the well-known model failures. But being wrong consistently can be of ...
Letter: Is dynamic pricing ban curtains for the exchange?
If dynamic pricing is to be prohibited (“Fans look back in anger on dynamic pricing”, FT View, September 7), will this not mean the end of the London Stock Exchange?
Trump Media shares jump as ex-president says he will keep his stake
Shares in Trump Media & Technology Group jumped as much as 27 per cent on Friday after Donald Trump, the former US president and the social media group’s majority owner, said he had no plans to sell ...
Donald Trump re-election bid being derailed by far-right influencers, allies fear
Loomer’s proximity to Trump has drawn rebukes from some of his closest allies on Capitol Hill, including Lindsey Graham, the ...
Why the battle for the post-debate narrative matters so much
The lesson was clear: post-debate media narratives mattered and campaigns needed dedicated workers to craft them, lest journalists have the power to do so. By 1988, a backroom known as “Spin Alley” ...