What is striking about the coronavirus is how weak our rulers are

Fears of Russian influence revive drive to track corporations’ true owners

Business practices undergo seismic change with flexible policies becoming standard

Whichford Pottery’s terracotta wares are as appreciated overseas for their English style as they are in the UK for their robustness

The Edo-era artist Hōitsu painted different floral panels for every month

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

Foiled €15m scam for face masks shows how organised crime is ‘quick to adapt’, says Ylva Johansson

EU hosts online pledging event but €7.5bn target for vaccines, testing and treatment will only be first step

Tala al-Jabri is among a rising number of female professionals in the kingdom

‘Slow steaming’ options for imports gain popularity as coronavirus lockdowns sap demand

US telecoms group tries on virtual meeting service for size as demand soars during lockdowns 

Group’s losses hit almost $3bn as consumers travel less but order more food delivery

This season’s hottest trend takes in all things Japanese - from Macaque to Japandi

Subscriber numbers surge to 130m as listeners turn to tunes in a crisis

Plant-based alternative sales jump 200 per cent in US amid slaughterhouse closures

From bored employees to train trouble in the French Alps, the manufacturer has faced new challenges

Tyson chairman flags shortages as slaughterhouses and processing plants are forced to shut

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Mauren Pereira's drapery business was on track for its most financially successful year to date. That was until the coronavirus outbreak reached Virginia. Behind the Money reports on how one small business owner is navigating the current economic crisis. With Brendan Greeley, US economics editor for the Financial Times. 

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In fashion, timing is everything. When coronavirus turned the world upside down, these new brands had to pivot quickly to survive

Local news sites are experiencing a resurgence and streaming is more popular than ever

Could your stock picking skills beat the market this year? In this week's FT Money Show podcast presenter Claer Barrett talks to FT Markets reporter Robert Smith about the results of our 2019 contest between readers and FT journalists. Plus we give you details of how to enter this year's competition. Next up, January's nearly over but you still have another 11 months to make good on your New Year's resolutions. If you had resolved to get a pay rise or sort out your pension this year, keep listening as help is at hand. 

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There are lots of pressures on household budgets at the current time, but experts on the FT Money show are here to guide you through it. On this week's podcast we’re going to be talking about worker’s rights if companies want to cut their pay; whether you should take a ‘payment holiday on your mortgage’, and how to get a refund on a holiday you can no longer take - our Money Mentor Lindsay Cook is here to help. And with children at home, we’ve also got ideas to inspire them to learn more about money matters - and there’s even a competition parents can enter for sharing their best ideas.

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World leaders call for an urgent debt moratorium and unprecedented health and economic aid packages

There is a new-found confidence in what Spain, and Spain alone, can offer

Facebook and Google show resilience through the crisis thanks to uptick in ‘direct response’ ads

Tax authority switches focus to supporting businesses and individuals via job retention scheme 

Mel Stride, former Treasury minister, calls for help for business owners who pay themselves in dividends

Tax bills can be reduced by handing back a vehicle to an employer

Finance minister Paulo Guedes has had his liberal economic agenda sidelined by emergency measures

Tokyo’s Topix dropped 2.5% at the open, taking the benchmark index down more than 30% for the year. The move followed S&P 500 index's collapse of 12 per cent on Monday, marking the biggest one-day fall since the crash of October 1987.

LGIM to hold businesses to account for their stakeholder responsibilities during pandemic 

With its candidate favourite to win, Law and Justice party was insisting poll should go ahead on May 10

Maker of Budweiser and Corona to cut costs by renegotiating contracts such as sponsorship deals

Measures to ease lockdown will be costly and difficult in practice, particularly in hospitality trade

Naspers, a publisher once condemned as a mouthpiece of the apartheid regime in South Africa, has quietly become one of the world’s biggest internet investors thanks to a stake in China’s Tencent. On 11 September it will list its global internet assets on the Amsterdam bourse, becoming Europe's biggest consumer internet company overnight. Arash Massoudi discusses how it got there with Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg.

Contributors: Arash Massoudi, corporate finance and deals editor, and Joseph Cotterill, Southern Africa correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Some officials are using Covid-19 to jump on the neoliberal-bashing bandwagon

Trump ally Tom Barrack’s investment group in talks with lenders over hotel and nursing home debt

The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and the number of deaths around the world

Being ‘guided by the science’ does not mean hiding behind it

Regulators must ensure that lenders’ defences are sufficiently robust

This riveting account of how a piratical corporation subjugated India resonates with today’s global capitalism

Downfall of carmaker’s former boss sets up clash between country’s old guard and its reformists

Small-cap stocks underperformed large-caps throughout the bear market and rally

Investors fret over the level of economic stimulus Washington is likely to provide

Trading restrictions did not work in the past; there is less reason for them to work this time

Strategy shift comes shortly after $1.4tn fund’s CIO tweeted he was stepping down

Virus’s swift and unforgiving economic effect may silence activists

Activists wary after finance ministry names ‘core’ stocks covered by law on foreign investment

Coronavirus means many businesses face an uncertain future but the region’s fundamentals will aid recovery