Commission warns pandemic will wipe out growth in all member states and result in an uneven recovery

IEA expects global consumption will decline 8% this year in largest drop since second world war

Fortnite is typical of the new business model, renting access to a platform

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

I’ve drawn up a list of badly beaten-up stocks worthy of a punt

Scottish Power has launched a new energy plan that allows customers to fix their bills

Lowest five-year fix in UK history

First-time buyers receive £600 cashback if they save for 10 out of 12 months before taking out a Halifax mortgage

Read the small print on ‘free’ offer

Timely relaunch allows savers to keep pace with the rising cost of living

Pension funds need to spend less time on ESG and get back to basics

Small businesses hope the fast-track credit scheme will be a lifeline

Winners of the FT’s personal finance competition love learning about money

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

Tickets website has to navigate an overhaul of UK rail’s supporting infrastructure

The holes in the investment case were there, but not many were looking

Optimism, not pessimism, could spark future takeover offers for UK investment houses

Political goodwill for Spire Healthcare could act as a tailwind once virus impact eases

This inaugural ranking of the region’s businesses by revenue growth rate reveals the dominance of the US and technology — the top-ranked company this year is an augmented reality and video game developer

Technology bolsters US dominance of the list, but coronavirus fallout looms large

In our increasingly cashless society, parents are turning to apps and payment cards designed for youngsters

Finding a good credit card deal when you’re older is more difficult

Puny interest rates have dented the tax sheltering properties of cash Isas for most 

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

Take advantage of tax allowances available despite the turmoil

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

Concerns over climate change led the chemicals veteran to dramatically transform Syngenta

The Nobel laureate talks to Anjana Ahuja

Welcome to Due Diligence, the FT’s daily deals briefing

Welcome to Due Diligence, the FT’s daily deals briefing

A number of UK entrepreneurs have banded together to survey Angels about their investment strategy. The initiative comes in the wake of the UK government’s “Future Fund” for startups, which has been criticized as being inadequate for the needs of Angel and Seed-stage startups. The group hopes the survey will give the UK early-stage investment […]

The Europas Awards — which have been recognising the hottest European tech startups in since 2009 — are now open for the public voting stage, prior to the formal judging process. The entries have been sorted and sifted by journalists to compile an editorially-driven ‘long list’ of some of Europe’s most exciting startups and investors. […]

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with participation from Speedinvest. Founded in mid-2017 by Arsalan Zafar and Chri Besenbruch, who met while studying Computer Science at Imperial College London, Deep Render […]

“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 […]

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

Rich countries need to fund infectious disease treatments properly

The last time America sold war bonds they were essentially a tax on savers

Under lockdown, communities are finding new ways to voice their defiance, anger and support

Corporate accountants could have a significant impact on green issues

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

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Under lockdown, vulnerable families are imprisoned in a cage of terror, stress and abuse

Gillian Tett on how to assess risk in the age of coronavirus

The quarantine lockdown is driving a record number of users to Facebook’s products. On a conference call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed a number of new metrics highlighting a significant bump in Facebook usage during the broader quarantine lockdown. In the past month, more than 3 billion internet users logged onto a Facebook service, including its […]

Researchers at NYU have identified hundreds of groups of Instagram users, some with thousands of members, that systematically exchange likes and comments in order to game the service’s algorithms and boost visibility. In the process, they also trained machine learning agents to identify whether a post has been juiced in this way. “Pods,” as they’ve […]

Facebook is today rolling out a tool that will allow users in the U.S. and Canada to export their Facebook photos and videos to Google Photos. This data portability tool was first introduced in Ireland in December, and has since been made available to other international markets. To use the feature, Facebook users will need […]

Happy Saturday and welcome back to an Equity Shot, a short-form episode of Equity where we drill into one particular topic. There was so much news this week in our main areas of focus — startup funding rounds, new venture funds, that sort of thing — that we had to exclude earnings from the main […]

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 […]

For many college seniors, school is a time for self-exploration, considering options, leisurely contemplating the future. Yet that’s rarely the case for computer engineering students who either attend the world’s best universities or rise to the very top of their classes. Almost immediately after choosing their courses during the first week of school, they typically […]