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The Kingmaker — up close with Imelda Marcos, spendthrift superdiva

Lauren Greenfield’s documentary about the Philippines’ former First Lady is comic as well as horrific




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Horacio Cartes has eye on smoking out business potential

Controversial cigarette tycoon and ex-president still wields influence




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NMC expects administration as it fails to win creditors’ backing 

Former FTSE 100 group has been in turmoil over its financial arrangements for months 




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AI sensors keep refineries ticking along

Advanced equipment can detect problems 75 days before they occur




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Coronavirus compels companies to embrace remote working

Business practices undergo seismic change with flexible policies becoming standard




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Is my employer taking me for granted?

Your question for our expert — and readers’ advice




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The impossible task of picking the best leaders

Managers matter but it is hard to gauge what individuals contribute




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New zen — why interior design is looking to Japan

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




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Car Seat Headrest: Making a Door Less Open

An alt-rock concept album whose concept is never clearly defined




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Bang on a Can Marathon — six hours of music from the boundary-breaking group

The annual parade of work by living composers went online, performed from living rooms




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Tennis takes a swing at making players’ earnings fairer

The new chair of the association that runs men’s tennis wants to share out wealth more evenly




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Culture war: How Danone kept making yoghurt in pandemic 

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




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Largest US meat company warns food supply chain is breaking

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




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PepsiCo’s food and drink combo serves it well in lockdown snacking surge

Sales rise but company warns revenues will decline as bar and restaurant closures hit beverages




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US meat inspectors given new role looking after people

Agency overseeing slaughterhouse reopenings has previously said worker safety is not its job




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Lloyds' offshore banking problem, Facebook's Libra and US stress tests

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Lloyds Bank and its offshore banking problems, the latest on the regulatory tests facing Facebook's Libra initiative, and how banks have fared in this year's US Fed stress tests.


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Nick Megaw, retail banking correspondent, Hannah Murphy, technology correspondent, and Kiran Stacey, US regulatory correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon


 

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Deutsche Bank overhaul, Orcel's Santander lawsuit and Dublin's banking ambitions

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Deutsche Bank's radical overhaul, Andrea Orcel's lawsuit against Santander and Ireland's plans to expand Dublin as a financial centre. With special guest Michael D'Arcy, Irish financial services minister.


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Olaf Storbeck, Frankfurt financial correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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Germany moves to unblock eurozone banking union

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Germany's concession that could unblock progress towards a eurozone banking union, investor moves against Deutsche Bank chairman Paul Achkleitner, and what's behind the recent spate of personnel changes in investment banking. With special guest Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, chairman of Société Générale.


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Martin Arnold, Frankfurt bureau chief, Olaf Storbeck, Frankfurt correspondent, Jonathan Guthrie, Lex editor, David Crow, banking editor, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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Google eyes Citigroup for new banking venture

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Google's move towards banking that could see it team up with Citigroup, why Australia's big four are facing difficult times and what's in the report on TSB's software failure last year. With special guest Masha Cilliers, Specialist Payments Partner at Be.


Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Tim Bradshaw, global tech correspondent, Robert Armstrong, chief editorial writer, Jamie Smyth, Australia correspondent and Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent. Producers: Persis Love and Aimee Keane.

 

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The record-breaking US economic recovery in charts

Longest expansion in modern American history is also the weakest




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Loosening lockdowns: tracking governments’ changing coronavirus responses | Free to read

From business closures to movement restrictions, some countries’ policies show first signs of easing




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Ken Loach on political filmmaking

On the occasion of his British Film Institute retrospective, Ken Loach, the acclaimed director of films such as Kes, Land and Freedom and the Cannes Palme d’Or winning The Wind that Shakes the Barley, talks about the state of political filmmaking. He is in the studio with Raphael Abraham, Peter Aspden and Lucian Robinson. Produced by Griselda Murray Brown  


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Just reach out: Peter Aspden on making culture accessible

A brush with institutional hauteur in Nice makes the FT’s arts writer long for the determinedly inclusive museums and galleries of the UK  


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Rich pickings: Peter Aspden on spectator apartheid

Art may be essentially egalitarian as it illuminates the human condition – but that hasn't stopped members of the Porsche Travel Club getting special access to the Sistine Chapel. Should we worry if the wealthy corner the finest cultural experiences?  


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Is music streaming making us better listeners?

How is music streaming changing the experience of listeners? Are the algorithms that guide us through this new world an adequate replacement for DJs, critics and knowledgable record shop owners? Could endless choice paradoxically be making us more conservative in our tastes? Lorien Kite discusses these questions with Spotify's Will Page and FT pop critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney.  


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The Life of a Song: Good King Wenceslas

This 1853 Christmas Carol, set to the melody of a 13th-century Nordic Hymn, has since fallen into the hands of Joan Baez, Tom Jones and Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple.  


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Stock picking competition, how to get a pay rise and company pensions

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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Taking pay cut ‘could trigger a tax bill’

Tax experts warn of unintended consequences of reducing or giving away pay and bonuses




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The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver review — from A to Z and back again

A fascinatingly detailed history one of the world’s great scholarly projects




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The battle for the Brexit-backing north

Will Britain’s election be decided in the Labour heartlands? Matthew Engel reports




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Michael Milken, junk bond king wins pardon at last

Decades of philanthropy pay off for one of Wall Street’s most complicated figures




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Dark Towers — an exposé of banking gone bad

David Enrich’s salutary tale of Deutsche Bank’s overreaching ambitions




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UK election results: Boris Johnson says he has ‘stonking mandate’ on Brexit — as it happened

The Conservatives secure the biggest majority in parliament since Margaret Thatcher with Labour's 'red wall' crumbling; stocks in London surge while the pound has soared more than 2 per cent in its sharpest rally in nearly three years

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JPMorgan tops ranking as best-performing fund house in China

UBS drops to second spot while Invesco slips to third in Z-Ben analysis of investment market




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The lurking debt disaster behind India's tallest tower

In the past decade, some of India’s largest financial groups have made big investments in luxury property, notably an ambitious Mumbai tower that was supposed to set new standards in urban design. But the economic boom they hoped would spur demand failed to materialise. Jyotsna Singh talks to Benjamin Parkin in Mumbai about what went wrong and the resulting debt crisis that is holding back growth.


Contributors: Jyotsna Singh, Delhi reporter, and Benjamin Parkin, Mumbai correspondent. Proucers: Jyotsna Singh and Fiona Symon

 

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Why Taylor Swift is taking on the music industry

Taylor Swift’s anger over the sale of her back catalogue shines a light on the role of investment in today’s music industry. Anna Nicolaou and Jamie Powell tell Alex Barker about Swift’s dispute with her former record label and how investments are changing in the streaming era of music.


Contributors: Alex Barker, global media editor, Anna Nicolaou, US media correspondent and Jamie Powell, Alphaville reporter. Producer: Persis Love


Music credit: Taylor Swift, Shake It Off, Big Machine Records

 

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Are financial institutions waking up to climate change?

Questions about the future of fossil fuels are putting new pressure on companies and financial institutions. How are they responding and should they be doing more? Pilita Clark talks to Huw van Steenis, chair of the sustainable finance committee at UBS and a former adviser to Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, and Billy Nauman, reporter for the FT’s Moral Money. 


Contributors: Huw van Steenis, chair of the sustainable finance committee at UBS, Pilita Clark, business columnist and Billy Nauman, reporter and producer, moral money. Producer: Persis Love. Photo credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty

 

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Next’s Wolfson shows his workings for a new socially distant world

Boss of clothing retailer deserves a premium; Astra’s eyes on big prize




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Telefónica/Liberty: rainy day dealmaking

Potential cost cuts should not be used as justification for a UK telecoms tie-up




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Dyson and the art of making quick decisions

Companies from Boeing to HSBC have discovered the danger of delaying hard choices




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Norwegian Air: taking a flyer

Lenders and lessors had little alternative but to accept the debt-for equity swap




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Endeavour bids £1.5bn for Centamin in gold dealmaking wave

Canadian group makes all-stock proposal public after talks fail to get off ground




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FT ranking: Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies

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




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Cover Genius tops FT ranking with insurtech platform

The Australian company was borne out of an online travel business that had a problem to solve




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Markets should beware this morally hazardous approach to policymaking

Central banks repeatedly set the stage for the next boom and bust cycle, fuelled by growing debt




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Income-seeking investors face an uphill struggle 

Even dividends from stalwarts Shell and BP may be in doubt in the fallout from the Covid-19 crisis 




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Construction confusion as UK working instructions published then withdrawn

Mixed messages follow industry protests over 2-metre distance ruling




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Breaking down the eurozone’s worst recession in history

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




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Looking beyond the Brexit gloom

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




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Entrepreneurship: Nubank shakes up Brazil’s banking bureaucracy

The fintech company aims to disrupt other Latin American markets with its smartphone-based services