The UK’s decision on Huawei should give the US cause for reflection as much as reproach

It is an illusion to see victory for the former US vice-president as a geopolitical calendar reset

Two questions serve as a reality check on excessive American declinism

Airline forecasts capacity will be almost wiped out in the second quarter

Bundesbank told to halt participation unless central bank shows policy is ‘proportionate’

JPMorgan data show about one in four loans was behind on payments last month

Turmoil in commodity market slashes state colleges’ revenues

Railroad commissioner had called for using decades-old state rules to reduce output

Dive into negative prices triggered pullback that helps set scene for rebound

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

French energy group makes emissions pledge as first-quarter profits drop 35%

An esoteric choice they may be for private investors, but if you’re selective they can add value

First big energy supplier to pass on lower wholesale costs

Move to capitalise on dislocations across market stemming from coronavirus pandemic

Covert and overt ways to interest children in learning about money

UK-based education company is still more value trap than takeover candidate

Production costs to rise by 61% when industry invests in carbon capture

As world markets take a turn for the worse, investors use ETFs as they hope to profit from any bounceback 

Listed businesses have been conspicuously slow in estimating disruption to operations

Price in local currencies of commodities such as copper and coffee has surged

From coffee to copper, exporters enjoy higher profits

Investor group led by the CofE launches database to track tailings dams after Brazil disaster

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

Chief expects weak demand from mills outside China to offset supply disruptions elsewhere

Withdrawal fees soar to £104m and banks save £120m in ATM shake-up

Bond market movements blamed for removal of nearly 175,000 cash prizes from monthly draw

As interest rates fall, more savings banks rely on the lure of cash prizes

Over 400,000 teenagers will be eligible to claim funds from later this year

NS&I scraps planned cuts to prize fund rate 

The number of US deaths attributed to Covid-19 surpassed 45,000 on Friday, while the rate of new cases remained flat

British fatalities rise by 813 with almost 150,000 infected; Spain prepares to ease restrictions slightly as daily deaths remain below 400

The FT's live blog on the Covid-19 pandemic

Russia's coronavirus outbreak worsens and Federal Reserve research finds a correlation between deaths from the influenza pandemic in 1918-1920 and extremist voting in Germany in 1932 and 1933

Cheap shale gas has fed an investment boom in products that often end up as waste. Has the petrochemicals industry miscalculated?

Like other accelerators, Techstars, a network of more than 40 corporate and geographically targeted startup bootcamps, has had to bring its marquee demo day events online. Over the last two weeks of April, industry-focused accelerators working with startups building businesses around mobility technologies (broadly) and the future of the home joined programs in Abu Dhabi, […]

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 […]

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

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

The anti-Brexit movement wasted energy on negative campaigning and parliamentary wrecking tactics

The German finance minister’s proposition on EU deposit insurance are not quite what they seem

The new president should ensure governments grasp the interaction of fiscal and monetary policy

Brussels was wrong to treat Brexit as a threat, rather than grasping it as an opportunity

Doxzoo proudly says on its website that your “documents are in safe hands.” But for some time, that wasn’t true. The U.K. printing company left its customer files on a cloud storage bucket, hosted on Amazon Web Services, without a password. Anyone who knew the easy-to-guess bucket name could access the massive trove of customer […]

Google is reportedly on the verge of stepping up their hardware game in a way that follows the example set by Apple, with custom-designed silicon powering future smartphones. Axios reports that Google is readying its own in-house processors for use in future Pixel devices, including both phones and eventually Chromebooks, too. Google’s efforts around its […]

At a time when more transactions than ever are happening online, payments behemoth Stripe is announcing three new features to continue expanding its reach. The company today announced that it will now offer card issuing services directly to businesses to let them in turn make credit cards for customers tailored to specific purposes. Alongside that, it’s going […]

Chief executive criticised over move to offer liability cover following premium increase

Chief executive Jim Hackett signals disruption to carmaker’s plans as losses mount

Shares soar in after-hours trading following better than expected figures