The race for the US Democratic presidential nomination is hotting up with a huge field of 23 candidates all hoping run against Donald Trump in 2020.  Courtney Weaver has focused in on one of the candidates, Kamala Harris, and she talks to Neville Hawcock about how the campaign for the Democratic nomination is shaping up. Read Courtney's article here

Contributors: Josh Noble, weekend news editor, Neville Hawcock, acting deputy editor, FT Weekend Magazine, and Courtney Weaver, Washington correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Greece’s centre-right New Democracy party has returned to power after defeating the far-left party Syriza at the ballot box on a promise of reviving the economy through tax cuts, reduced bureaucracy and more foreign investment.  Katie Martin discusses the new government and the challenges it is facing with Ben Hall and Kerin Hope.

Contributors: Naomi Rovnick, FT Live reporter, Katie Martin, capital markets editor, Ben Hall, Europe editor, and Kerin Hope, Athens correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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India has gone from being known as the world’s fastest growing large-economy to a country in the midst of a sharp economic slowdown. Jyotsna Singh discusses what’s gone wrong and what can be done to revive growth with Amy Kazmin, the FT’s South Asia bureau chief.

Contributors: Jyotsna Singh, Delhi reporter, and Amy Kazmin, South Asia bureau chief. Producers: Jyotsna Singh and Fiona Symon

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This selection of economics must-reads from the last six months take on capitalism, inequality, trade, AI, the law and more. Martin Wolf tells Frederick Studemann about the books we should all be reading this winter.

Watch a video of the conversation here.

Contributors: Frederick Studemann, literary editor and Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator. Producer: Persis Love



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Analysts fear government’s timid fiscal response will prolong the pain

British and American consumers are unlikely to ‘spend, spend, spend’ after the lockdowns

Eighth consecutive cut could heap fresh pressure on already struggling lira

Two experts debate the long-term impact on inflation of the Covid-19 rescue packages

Governments should borrow more to stave off secular stagnation

Pandemic combined with collapsing oil prices spells real hardship

Investors are looking to the future, but should beware of over-optimism

Mike Mackenzie’s daily analysis of what’s moving global markets

Why, from an investment perspective, Covid-19 suppression is the equivalent of kicking the can down the road.

Discovery in Zenith factory attic helps watchmaker claim the first all-black wristwatch title

One of Latin America’s top real estate developers puts some of his triumphs down to luck

The US private sector shed a record 20m jobs in April as coronavirus lockdowns and the resulting closure of non-essential businesses led to historic joblessness

Some big M&A is afoot in Israel in the world of smart transportation. According to multiple reports and sources that have contacted TechCrunch, chip giant Intel is in the final stages of a deal to acquire Moovit, a startup that applies AI and big data analytics to track traffic and provide transit recommendations to some […]

Mike Mackenzie’s daily analysis of what’s moving global markets

The FT's chief economics commentator says Boris Johnson's levelling-up mission will come at a cost

As borrowers and spenders of last resort, governments must act now to avert a depression

A microbe has overthrown our arrogance and sent global output into a tailspin

Pandemic's economic impact compared with historic crises of 1930s and 2008

It is not a matter of protecting people ‘or’ the economy but of protecting people ‘and’ the economy

Just as challenger banks have appeared in the B2C space, so to have B2B startup banks aimed at small businesses, among them startups like Qonto (Fr), Tide (UK), Penta (GER) and CountingUp (UK). Today another such firm, Finom, has closed a €6.5m ($7M) seed funding round led by Target Global, with participation from General Catalyst. […]

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Unique granular modelling of over 2,000 locations across Australia uncover how fragmented and concentrated our economy is.

Major tax reform is the most sensible lever to pull to combat a projected $48 billion in lost revenue in our new low growth economy.

If the company tax rate was reduced from 30 to 25 per cent over the next five years gross domestic product (GDP) would grow $291 billion and income tax revenues would generate $4 billion up to the year 2025, PwC modelling released today shows.

Australia has fallen back to pre-2007 performance on female economic empowerment with one of the biggest annual declines among OECD countries according to PwC's annual Women in Work index.

A standalone plebiscite with a compulsory vote on marriage equality could cost the Australian economy $525 million according to modelling released by PwC Australia today.

Australian organisations are experiencing a significantly higher rate of economic crime than the rest of the globe according to a PwC survey released today which finds 52 percent experienced economic crime in the last 24 months compared to the global average of 36 percent.

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The 24-year-old took to Instagram on Monday to share two topless pictures taken before and during the moment she discovered she was nominated for an Oscar. 

While The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu is a fan favorite, viewers may notice that the series was only nominated for a select few Emmys this year.

She's the Queen Bey, with 23 Grammy's to her name.

The nominees for the 71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are here.

Sexual abuse documentaries about Michael Jackson and R. Kelly, as well as Netflix's film about the infamous Fyre Festival have all picked up 2019 Emmy nominations.

Several fans took to Twitter to vent their frustrations about GoT's nods - including Outstanding Drama Series - as one even wrote 'this season does not deserve them.'

She was supposedly snubbed for an Emmy nomination for her role in Amazon's Homecoming.

The 29-year-old musician took a moment away from his Maldives holiday to congratulate his beaming bride for the accomplishment.

Bourdain was filming an episode in Strasbourg at the time of his death, just before his 62nd birthday. He was found June 8, having committed suicide by hanging in his hotel room at Le Chambard.

Mandy Moore is now an Emmy-nominated actress, for her work on NBC's critically-acclaimed drama series This Is Us, and she is still in shock.

Billy Porter, a veteran theater actor, can add a new honor to his list: being the first openly gay African American man to be nominated for a Lead Actor Emmy.

Dawn Porter said her heart is 'bursting with pride' after her husband Chris O'Dowd was nominated for this year's Emmy Awards.

The Born to Run singer, in his run for the Emmy, faces competition from three other Netflix projects as well as CBS's Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool.

The 2019 Emmy nominations, announced on Tuesday, did not include Huffman. That's despite 16 nods for the Netflix show which tells story of the Central Park Five.

Comedian Hannah Gadsby celebrated her Emmy Award nomination, with her now set to face-off against a number of industry heavyweights.

Killing Eve star Jodie Comer has led the British stars recognised in nominations for the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards.

The 2019 Emmy nominations were announced on Tuesday, with a number of departing shows being recognized in their final seasons but not The Big Bang Theory.