Pandemic has added to pressure on companies already facing tough financial conditions

Donald Trump wants to reopen meatpacking plants amid fears of food shortages but unions warn of ‘sacrificial workers’

Patrick Jenkins discusses the Financial Conduct Authority's latest insider trading case and what it tells us about how market abuses are being tackled, why HSBC is on the defensive in China, and why Credit Suisse is suing the UK tax authorities.With special guest Mark Steward, Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight for the Financial Conduct Authority.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent, David Crow, banking editor, and James Kynge, global China editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Community is politically marginalised but makes up one-fifth of doctors and a quarter of nurses

Rami Makhlouf’s complaints against his cousin show strains in power structure

Men — Resist the clippers with these eight hair savers

Why one of the biggest names in fashion also designs furniture textiles

Find any country in the customisable version of the Covid-19 trajectory charts

After months of lockdown, citizens are keen to move around but not across borders

As St Paul’s Cathedral prepares to unveil a Bill Viola installation, the FT’s arts writer considers the potentially enriching relationship between sacred settings and contemporary art  

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Film screenings are becoming ever more inventive, with fine dining, unusual venues and even hot tubs thrown in to lure audiences. But for Antonia Quirke, nothing can match the downbeat charm of a black-box cinema on a weekday afternoon  

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Politicians love to keep things simple, at least in their public pronouncements. Artists, by contrast, embrace complication, nuance and imagination – so who better to tackle slippery questions of national identity as the UK prepares for a general election?  

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David Cheal explores how Lou Reed got prostitution, transvestism, oral sex and drugs past the BBC commisariat with a group of white English 'coloured girls'. Credits: RCA/Legacy, Spectralite, Sony BMG Music Entertainment  

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What makes a good Christmas song? Should it be cheesy or serious? And why do millennials love them? 

FT pop writers discuss festive classics old and new - from carols to Mariah Carey, Greg Lake to Phil Spector, Sufjan Stevens to Run-DMC. Plus, which 2017's best Christmas song: Gwen Stefani's 'You Make it Feel Like Christmas' or Sia's 'Santa's Coming for Us'?

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On this week's FT Money show we discuss investment trusts and the different ways investors can use them in their portfolios. Presenter Emma Agyemang, FT Money reporter, talks to Jason Hollands, managing director at Tilney Group and Moira O'Neill of interactive investor about how listeners can invest alongside the wealthiest families. Plus, the dividend heroes - which offer the most consistent income and are they still a good option for investors? And finally, Merryn Somerset Webb tells listeners why she thinks investment trusts have a better chance of lasting a lifetime compared to other assets.

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Experience with other outbreaks could compensate for poor healthcare infrastructure

These governments desperately need financial breathing space to fight the pandemic

A self-effacing intellectual who rose to the very centre of power

Use of community health workers to identify cases draws heavily on experience battling tuberculosis and HIV

Vice-president makes suggestion even as number of deaths across the country spikes

Data give snapshot of shifting battlegrounds ahead of November’s presidential election

Democratic candidate wrestles with new realities as he tries to close cash gap with Trump

Can Jessica Anthony’s parody nail the challenge of satirising US political life?

US cable company enjoys rising demand for high-speed internet but movie business suffers

David Rhodes to report to Rebekah Brooks as group seeks to challenge BBC’s broadcast dominance

Bank of England marks its 325th anniversary with exhibition of objects reflecting changing world of payments

Ahead of the Budget, chancellor Sajid Javid has some tough choices to make

US liberals’ favourite TV host on polarisation, the primaries and staying sane

Group seeks to ‘protect capital structure’ as uncertainty swirls over Covid-19 impact

Global property portals report big increases in Chinese inquiries

Macri tries to shore up confidence amid market worries over prolonged political instability and $101bn owed

Korean electronics group draws on lessons from past epidemics to tackle coronavirus crisis

European Commission and MEPs warn regulator over watering down Priips performance scenarios decried as misleading

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

The race for the US Democratic presidential nomination is hotting up with a huge field of 23 candidates all hoping run against Donald Trump in 2020.  Courtney Weaver has focused in on one of the candidates, Kamala Harris, and she talks to Neville Hawcock about how the campaign for the Democratic nomination is shaping up. Read Courtney's article here

Contributors: Josh Noble, weekend news editor, Neville Hawcock, acting deputy editor, FT Weekend Magazine, and Courtney Weaver, Washington correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Thanks to its links to Shakespeare and his players that were until recently a well kept secret, a deprived suburb of Liverpool is to house a new playhouse. Local investors have high hopes that it will woo some of the tourists that flock to Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Andy Bounds went to Prescot to speak to some of the project's supporters.

Contributors: Andy Bounds, Enterprise editor and North of England correspondent. Producers: Fiona Symon and Persis Love

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The FT's Sue-Lin Wong spent several months with members of Hong Kong's youthful pro-democracy movement and their supporters. She tells Andreas Paleit what she learnt about their hopes and fears for the future.

Read Sue-Lin's magazine story here

Contributors: Andreas Paleit, companies desk editor, and Sue-Lin Wong, South China correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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The FT News Briefing is a rundown of the global business stories you need to know for the coming day, from the newsroom of the Financial Times. If you enjoy it, subscribe to the FT News Briefing wherever you get your podcasts, or listen at FT.com/newsbriefing. 

Western governments pledged trillions of dollars in stimulus measures to limit the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday. The FT’s global business columnist Rana Foroohar explains what it could mean for Wall Street and Main Street. Plus, Impossible Foods raises $500m in a round that will help the US-plant based burger group to see through the economic upheaval caused by the current crisis, and Joe Biden solidifies his status as the frontrunner to take on Donald Trump in November.

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Jeanine Añez settles in for long haul as pandemic adds to political uncertainty

Finance minister tells FT that government has rejected counter-offer from BlackRock-led group of creditors

First country to get a vaccine could have an economic as well as a health advantage

First signs of severity of coronavirus pandemic on UK energy sector 

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

Candour about the fiscal deficit might return the Democrat to prominence

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

Grounding of aircraft around the world due to coronavirus crisis takes toll on UK aero-engine maker

Aircraft maker’s chief executive says focus will be on rebuilding balance sheet post-pandemic

Aircraft maker says strong demand for offering has removed need for government funding

Frantic trading across financial markets pushes revenues up at the exchange and financial data group

The story of Robert Iger’s career as a leader is a thoughtful tale of surviving disruption