Sportswear maker apologises but warns it cannot bear virus lockdown for long   

How the crisis will revolutionise brands, fashion weeks and personal style

UK fintech plans to use recent $500m fundraising to buy rivals hit by coronavirus pandemic

Global Witness highlights UK hedge fund’s stake in company accused of environmental violations

Hedge fund billionaire cites Silver Lake-backed company’s reliance on international travel

S&P 500 closes lower as investors await more evidence of progress against virus and extra stimulus

S&P up 23% from March nadir on back of state coronavirus action — but more falls possible, warn analysts

Asia-Pacific indices broadly higher after S&P 500 closes up 3.4%

The epidemic could weaken Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, feed conspiracy theories and lead to closed borders

European Commission seeks to strengthen enforcement powers after banking scandals

Tag Heuer’s digital chief sees connected watches as a point of entry to the mechanical models

Companies are seeking to tap whatever sources of affordable funding are available

ExxonMobil and Chevron deploy plans for cutbacks but preserve dividends

Price wars and coronavirus have disrupted the sector, possibly moving peak demand even closer 

Railroad commissioner had called for using decades-old state rules to reduce output

It is the deepest, broadest, most liquid market for larger global businesses

A new exchange traded commodity holds several advantages

First big energy supplier to pass on lower wholesale costs

James Max, the FT columnist, takes questions from readers about the misery of household chores

Covert and overt ways to interest children in learning about money

The default product of anxious idleness has been sidelined during pandemic

State-owned oil group faces risk of further rating downgrades and grapples with output woes

In contrast with many global peers, Petrobras has made scant efforts to diversify into green energy

Chief expects weak demand from mills outside China to offset supply disruptions elsewhere

Bank blames low-interest environment and impact of banking regulation

Young people may face many challenges, but they also have many wealth creation opportunities

Surprise measures on pensions and investing for children lay in the chancellor’s red box

Lockdown presents a golden educational opportunity, particularly if you work in investment

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Russia's coronavirus outbreak worsens and Federal Reserve research finds a correlation between deaths from the influenza pandemic in 1918-1920 and extremist voting in Germany in 1932 and 1933

Thousands attend military parade in Belarus even as virus spreads rapidly in neighbouring Russia, UK airline industry warns of huge blow if travel quarantine is launched and Seoul closes down bars and clubs in wake of new cluster

The Nobel laureate talks to Anjana Ahuja

US flavouring group seeks first-mover advantage with purchase of nutrition venture

Zeitgold has raised a Series B round of $29.2 million (€27 million). Overall, the company has raised more than $54 million (€50 million). The company is building a software platform for small companies to automate bookkeeping as much as possible. Vintage Investment Partners is leading today’s round with existing investors Battery Ventures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, […]

VC fund Runa Capital was launched with $135 million in 2010, and is perhaps best known for its investment into NGINX, which powers many web sites today. In more recent years it has participated or led investments into startups such as Zipdrug ($10.8 million); Rollbar this year ($11 million); and Monedo (for €20 million). HQ’d […]

“Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […]

Corporate accountants could have a significant impact on green issues

It will be hard to help worthy US companies without also aiding private equity

WhatsApp, which began testing its mobile payments feature in India two years ago, could offer at least one more financial service to people in its biggest market. In a filing with the local regulator in India, the Facebook -owned messaging platform has listed credit as one of the areas it will pursue in the country. […]

You can now debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes with a few texts on WhatsApp . Poynter Institute, a non-profit organization that supports journalism, today launched a bot on the Facebook -owned service that will allow people across the globe to debunk over 4,000 hoaxes surrounding the pandemic such as whether the infectious disease originated in […]

Facebook has a new connectivity app called Discover to help those who can’t afford to get online access information on the web. The service, available through mobile web and Android app, allows users to visit any website in text format (no video, images, audio and other elements that eat up large amounts of data) and […]

Recognition of a two-speed Europe would help fix divides

London and Brussels have both turned these negotiations into a zero-sum game

Ideally governments would co-ordinate fiscal policy but there is no sense of urgency

We do not need another big lending programme; equity investments would get us out of the credit-versus-loans debate

Donald Trump plans to reopen US for business despite coronavirus

Yesterday, Samsung announced that the Galaxy Flip Z sold out online. What, precisely, that means, is hard to say, of course, without specific numbers from the company. But it’s probably enough to make the company bullish about its latest wade into the foldable waters, in the wake of last year’s Fold — let’s just say […]

Another week in quarantine. As the world adjusts to working from home under mandatory stay-at-home orders, hackers are keeping busy. Microsoft said this week that coronavirus-related attacks are on the rise but still make up just a fraction of the overall malicious activity. Cybersecurity companies seem to be faring mostly well — in part thanks […]

In its first-quarter earnings report today, Samsung said it expects the COVID-19 pandemic to continue impacting its business for the rest of the year, cutting into sales for smartphones and TVs, but increasing demand for PCs, servers and memory chips as people continue to work or study from home. Samsung’s results for the first-quarter of […]