How is the crisis changing our reading habits and accelerating the industry’s digital revolution?

British TV network unable to provide guidance for the rest of 2020 as outlook is ‘uncertain’

Parents who haven’t historically claimed could now do so due to lost income

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

The former Goldman chief executive on the crash, the criticism — and sparring with Bernie Sanders

The former engineer on bullying, tech firm culture and breaking the silence

With an hour of season to go, three of the nine teams were all in with a chance of winning

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

Doyen of radio cricket commentary will hang up his microphone in September

Behaviour of Brazil’s ‘walking crisis’ president sparks backlash among one-time allies

Sérgio Moro was the face of nation’s long-running ‘Car Wash’ anti-corruption probe

Peso tumbles and cost to hedge against debt default surges

Reimposition of currency controls is admission of defeat by president

Former prime minister intervenes with warning that both Tories and Labour ‘pose a risk’ to country, Conservative manifesto in the spotlight, Lib Dems change tune with calls to avert Johnson majority, Sterling rallies as Tories extend lead.

Chamonix’s cable car back in business after two months, albeit with strict social-distancing measures

The high-street fashion empire of Philip Green is on the rocks. The UK retail tycoon has secured creditor support for a complex three-year overhaul that will involve rent reductions, store closures and a halving of the company’s pension deficit reduction payments. But will this be enough to save the business? Matthew Vincent discusses this question with Jonathan Ford and Jonathan Eley.

Contributors: Suzanne Blumsom, executive editor, Matthew Vincent, Lombard editor, Jonathan Ford, City editor, and Jonathan Eley, retail correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Falling interest rates, weak trading volumes and automation have led to an exceptionally brutal summer for global investment banks, which have shed tens of thousands of jobs, particularly on trading desks. Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, discusses the bleak outlook for bankers with Robert Armstrong, US financial editor.

Contributors: Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, and Robert Armstrong, US financial editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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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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In 2013, Edward Snowden was responsible for one of the biggest US intelligence leaks ever. He’s just published a memoir offering his version of the events. Janine Gibson was the Guardian’s US editor at the time and oversaw publication of the story. She shares her impressions of book and what it says about the man and his motives with Frederick Studemann, FT literary editor.

Read Janine's story here

Contributors: Janine Gibson, special projects editor, and Frederick Studemann, literary editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Caroline Criado-Perez won the latest Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award with her book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. She spoke to Andrew Hill, the FT’s management editor, about the consequences for women and for society as a whole of using men as the default model.

Contributors: Andrew Hill, management editor, and Caroline Criado Perez. Producers: Marc Filippino and Fiona Symon

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The US Federal Reserve has begun to consult the public, particularly in poorer parts of the country about monetary policy. As a result, policy wonks at the central bank have begun to reconsider the impact of their decisions on communities far from the centres of power. Brendan Greeley discusses the so-called Fed Listens sessions with Patrick Jenkins.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, Deputy Editor and Brendan Greeley, US economics editor. Producers: Fiona Symon and Persis Love. Photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty

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Friday, March 20

Republicans in the US Senate have introduced legislation to inject more than $1tn of fiscal stimulus into the economy as it grapples with the coronavirus outbreak. Sir Paul Tucker, the former deputy governor of the Bank of England and current chair of the Systemic Risk Council, says it’s time for policymakers and bankers to prepare for a wartime setting if conditions deteriorate. Plus, the only US drugmaker that makes a potential treatment for the coronavirus raised the price nearly 100 per cent in January as the outbreak wreaked havoc in China. 

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Research paper published in journal Nature identifies number of alternative treatments

The wide variety of Covid-19 symptoms seen by doctors is confounding the scientific community

Shares in Peabody Energy and Arch Coal fall sharply after regulatory action

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

There’s a chronic paradox at the heart of stablecoin-based payment systems that will render them cost-prohibitive.

Governments should borrow more to stave off secular stagnation

Guillaume Faury tells employees in letter that lockdown threatens manufacturer’s existence

Airline calls shareholder vote on directors in latest escalation of dispute

Smart jewellery can help people with disabilities but funding is needed

The continent faces a new emissions scandal as family vehicles grow bigger and heavier

Misjudged commercial is an example of an especially troublesome type of marketing mistake

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

European equities slip after ECB launches fresh push to bolster region’s banking system

Group’s founder Anil Agarwal undeterred by price crash and debt levels

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

Eskom will remove 6,000 megawatts of demand to avert total collapse of national grid

The Japanese tech investment group is looking increasingly challenged

Private equity group acquires 10% stake in Australia’s Crown Resorts

Dig downs and loft extensions may increase the value of a home, but it’s hard to borrow against this

Sharma signals tapering of scheme as Johnson prepares to announce road map out of lockdown

Scale of unemployment underscores urgency of additional emergency relief funds

Economists look back to the Great Depression for clues on the scale of the economic crisis

As global lockdowns boost streaming subscriptions, filming freezes spell trouble ahead

Reducing pensioners to ‘old dears’ ignores their wisdom and physical vitality

Retirement plans have suffered tumbling asset values and ballooning liabilities

Judicial review sought over alleged breach of 2015 law, claiming cost benefits should go to scheme members

PwC’s finest scientific minds attempt to prove banks can exist in two states at once

Vietnam vet and old-school conservative whose friendships crossed the political aisle