Silver Lake’s Jio stake, Amazon VP quits in protest, new MacBook Pro

The Chinese novelist on life under censorship — and why he is still a ‘peasant’ at heart

Discovery raises prospect of industry’s return 20 years after Cornwall’s last pit closed

Commentators have forsworn understatement

Office providers warn chancellor that companies will go bankrupt without relief

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

Iron ore giant in second disaster in 3 years after mud and waste surges through valley

Just two years ago investors rushed to snap up 100-year debt sold by Buenos Aires

The pound has soared more than 2 per cent in its biggest rise since 2017 after an exit poll has projected a strong victory for Boris Johnson’s Conservative party.

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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Europe commemorates Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945

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

David Pilling takes us on a tour of the African ghetto he visited with Bobi Wine, the rap singer turned politician, who has confirmed he will challenge Yoweri Museveni for the presidency of Uganda in 2021.

Contributors: Alec Russell, editor of FT Weekend, and David Pilling, Africa editor. Producer: Fiona Symon. Music clip: Kyarenga by Bobi Wine

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Britain's new prime minister Boris Johnson has set himself a 100-day deadline to achieve Brexit, with or without a deal with the European Union. Siona Jenkins discusses his chances of achieving this with Miranda Green, deputy opinion editor, and Jim Brunsden, EU correspondent.

Contributors: Siona Jenkins, editor, UK news, Miranda Green, deputy opinion editor, and Jim Brunsden, EU correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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The London Stock Exchange group has confirmed that it is in advanced talks to buy Refinitiv in a $27bn deal that would turn it into a global exchanges and data powerhouse. Patrick Jenkins discusses the proposed deal with Arash Massoudi, the FT’s corporate finance and deals editor.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Arash Massoudi, corporate finance and deals editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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With the economy in trouble and relations with western allies strained, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's grip over Turkey’s ruling AK party is showing signs of weakening. Former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu tells the FT's Laura Pitel why he thinks the country needs a new vision.

Contributor: Laura Pitel, Turkey correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon. Clips from edited interview with Ahmet Davutoglu and Reuters.

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Google is allegedly using hidden web pages that feed the personal data of its users to advertisers, circumventing EU privacy regulations that require consent and transparency. Madhumita Murgia, the FT's European technology correspondent, discusses the implications for both privacy and competition with Malcolm Moore.

Conributors: Malcolm Moore, technology news editor, and Madhumita Murgia, European technology correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Hundreds of millions of people turn to the web each day to seek answers to medical concerns. But the information they share is far from secret. Madhumita Murgia, the FT's European technology correspondent, has been looking into what happens to the personal health information we share with these websites, and she tells India Ross what she discovered..

Contributors: India Ross, tech creative producer, and Madhumita Murgia, European technology correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Alexei Navalny has been a thorn in the side of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin for a decade, braving persecution and imprisonment and remaining apparently undaunted. Max Seddon met him for lunch in a food court in southeast Moscow and he tells Alec Russell, editor of FT Weekend about the encounter.

Contributors: Alec Russell, editor of FT Weekend, and Max Seddon, Moscow correspondent. 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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K-Pop has never been more popular. However, a recent string of high profile controversies including a rape conviction and two suicides have sullied the image of the Korean cultural export. Edward White talks to Patricia Nilsson about what makes a K-Pop star, why the singers are under so much pressure, and what the industry means to the country’s economy.

Contributors: Edward White, Seoul correspondent and Patricia Nilsson, Media reporter. Producer: Persis Love

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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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Former deputy set to take over as country faces sharpest economic contraction in decades

US regulator cautions against using chloroquine outside of hospitals or clinical trials

US-run trial of Gilead coronavirus therapy demonstrates ‘significant positive effect’

US-led trial shows positive results in hastening recovery time for coronavirus patients

Loan scheme worth up to £100m a month would allow suppliers to assist struggling customers

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

Customers and investors may appear immune to staff complaints but regulators have not lost interest

Sterling under pressure from US-China angst and renewed Brexit concerns

Singapore’s second wave of infections and US meat packers offer cautionary tales

Banning computers from ‘lock-ups’ forces rethink on how markets respond

Watchdog also offers concession on post-Brexit share trading

SEC sets out proposal to provide investors with faster, broader trading figures

Business being bought from Blackstone-led consortium has lost ground to Bloomberg

The US is in danger of lurching from lax oversight of vaping to banning it unwisely

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

Departure comes just weeks after Moody’s cut miner’s rating to junk

Parent company IAG warns it will take ‘several years’ to return to 2019 passenger levels

Telecoms group seeks to turn mobile payments unit into provider of wider services

Prospective deal comes as Riyadh-listed STC seeks to expand regionally

Wall Street’s late sell-off came on top of Europe’s worst-ever single day performance

S&P 500 closes more than 9% higher as investors cheer Fed backstops and political progress

Change in Kospi 200 composition prompts US venues to suspend related derivatives

Households urged to consider options such as reduced payments instead of delaying debt

As young renters feel the pain, parents are having to bridge the financial gaps

We grew too fast, but came back stronger

Black journalist forced America to confront the evils of lynching

Light touch checks on UK borrowers raise fears of defaults on loans and fraud