US budget deficit expected to reach $1tn mark this year

Drama and substance are peripheral in a movie that’s as lacking in humanity as you might expect

Online learning modules boost students’ academic confidence and business knowhow

The country’s banking system is in hock to an insolvent state

Goldman exercises option to sell more stock, bringing total proceeds to $29bn

The Romanian director’s new film is a noirish tale built around a non-verbal language from a small Spanish island

Investors will be watching Christine Lagarde’s performance amid rising pressure on Italian bonds

Paddy Power owner topped the FTSE leaderboard in April despite near-total lack of sport

Documents seen by FT show demand for face masks and aprons was close to outstripping national supplies

Food and farm industry desperate to shift mountain of produce as pandemic decimates demand

In the first of a new series, David Cheal looks at the song covered by artists from Brenda Lee to Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson to the Pet Shop Boys Credits: Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, Sony BMG  

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Buddy Holly's 1958 London performance of the song inspired the young Mick Jagger to form his own band. Credits: Universal, Not Now Music  

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David Honigmann follows Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway' from its origins in a Welsh cottage to 'Wayne's World', the White House and bedrooms everywhere  

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Paul Anka originally wrote the song for, and in the persona of, Frank Sinatra, claiming he'd "never written something so chauvinistic, narcissistic, in-your-face and grandiose."  

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The most popular method is through the outfit you bought it from

About 2m businesspeople thought to be ineligible for existing coronavirus support schemes

Couples share how they divide their incomes and outgoings — and joint accounts are falling out of favour

As chief executive of 23andMe, she holds the key to a vast genetic database. What will she do with it?

An entertaining inquiry into the relentless advance of American expressions among the British

Train travel in the UK now combines the worst features of capitalism and socialism

A pledge to roll back the Beeching cuts has rekindled a strange national obsession

Cafés, restaurants and secondary schools to reopen in phased easing of restrictions

EU has reservations about allowing Britain to link to its carbon cap-and-trade system after Brexit

A sleep loss epidemic is making its mark on the workplace, but what are its causes and what should businesses do to ensure their fatigued employees get a good night’s kip? Louise Aston and James Wilson talk to Darren Dodd about where employers are going wrong and what needs to be done.

This podcast forms part of FT Health at Work magazine, supported by Vitality. 

Business in the Community's Sleep and Recovery Toolkit for employers can be found here, and their responsible business podcasts, here. James Wilson’s website is available here.

Contributors: Darren Dodd, editor of FT Health at Work magazine, Louise Aston wellbeing director at Business in the Community and, James Wilson, sleep specialist. Producer: Persis Love

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Severin Schwan unapologetic for outspoken criticism of state responses to coronavirus

Acquisition allows group to build bigger share of the $6.6tn-a-day market

It is right for the Fed to lead America towards faster and more efficient bank payments

Sell-off dents investment holdings despite uptick in operating profit

UK airport reports slump in passenger demand as calls resurface for expansion to be axed

Willie Walsh points out that expansion plans face bigger challenges due to coronavirus impact

Move in response to drop in prices and demand and honours unofficial pact with Opec

State-owned flag carrier struggling to pay salaries and secure funds to stay aloft

First state company to enter business rescue since end of apartheid

State-backed carrier starts cancelling flights as vital government funding is delayed

South African ecommerce group insists it remains in acquisition mode

How will your retirement finances change BC and AC — before and after coronavirus?

While scientists disagree about their use, donning a mask can have an important social impact

Facebook has been struggling to keep its VR hardware supply chains open for months, but at the same time they’ve reportedly been hard at work on the next generation of their popular Quest headset. According to a report in Bloomberg, Facebook had been planning to release a new version of the Oculus Quest later this […]

The UK should not agree to proposals to stagger the talks, with fish as part of the first course

The struggles of Uber provide a stark lesson of the dangers of buying new issues

Might we all be better off if government loans were fast converted into equity?

Past prime ministers put head before heart on Europe. Not any more

The two-party system that prevailed for so long has been upended

After suspending its self-driving operations at the end of March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Waymo has announced it will resume driving operations on May 11 in Arizona. Waymo will start its driving operations in the Phoenix area again, a decision the company says it made after discussions with “our teams, partners and local and […]

IAG boss Willie Walsh warns people will not fly if government brings in new measures

German conglomerate hopes to offload lossmaking division to focus on steel

Amazon is bringing a year’s worth of free, live and on-demand cooking classes to tens of millions of Amazon Fire TV and Fire tablet owners across the U.S., thanks to an expanded collaboration with Discovery’s Food Network Kitchen. The subscription service launched last fall as a flagship app for Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo Show, bringing daily […]

Australian CEOs are less confident about domestic growth than their regional peers, and less certain of their ability to capture a return in Asia Pacific markets.

Startup founders have a million things to worry about every day. Finding product-market fit, great talent and and a sustainable plan for constant growth are top of mind, but perhaps most importantly, they need to keep the lights on, whether it’s by raising venture capital or managing cash flows while bootstrapping. The flip side to […]

Beyond Meat, the publicly traded producer of plant-based protein replacements for meat, is currently giving other companies in the alternative meat space an education in just how finicky appealing to consumer tastes can be. On the same day that the Canadian Tim Hortons restaurant chain is dropping Beyond Meat products from its menus, the company […]