Forecasting the future may have its merits, and is certainly more sanitary than the Roman practice of haruspicy — divination by inspecting animal entrails (“How economists lost traction”, FT View, ...

Further to Philip Stephens’ Weekend Essay on “Ireland’s ‘British question’” ( Life & Arts, FT Weekend, August 16) the most important aspect to any prediction of the future of Ireland is the remarkable ...

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Anglo American is close to acquiring Canada’s Teck Resources in a mostly stock transaction that could value the company at about $20bn in one of the mining industry’s largest deals, said people ...

Pret A Manger has written off a third of the value of its 2018 acquisition by European investment group JAB, pushing the UK-based coffee and sandwich chain further into the red as higher costs and an ...

India’s regulators have long blocked the country’s public and private banks from providing loans to domestic companies to buy equity in other businesses. That has pushed acquirers turn to bond issues, ...

President of Japan’s Daikin says sales of some units have only been one-third of predicted levels ...

Microsoft has signed a deal worth up to $20bn with the artificial intelligence infrastructure group Nebius to supply computing power for the tech giant’s AI operations over five years.

Rupert Murdoch has resolved the bitter dispute over his sprawling media empire, handing his eldest son Lachlan future control of the business and buying out three other children from their family ...

Reform UK would cancel any plans to build high-speed rail lines across the north of England if elected, its deputy leader said, as Nigel Farage’s party chases votes across Labour’s northern heartlands ...

But a senior South Korean official said the companies had been placed in an “impossible position”, as successive US governments pushed them to invest billions of dollars in reviving American industry ...

Norway’s ruling centre-left government was on course to retain power as voters in the rich Nordic country backed a safe pair of hands in a tense security environment after neighbouring Russia’s ...