Watchdogs put 12-month extension on new margin requirements, citing coronavirus threat

US benchmark S&P 500 can drop a maximum 7 per cent before first protection kicks in

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

Shares in brokerage firm drop overnight after it discloses payments to clearing houses

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

Arca in San Francisco and Box in Chicago will throw open their doors on Monday

Hedge fund calls for court investigation into 2018 transfer of MyTheresa

Charity Commission intervened over £350,000 of payments to Duke of York’s private secretary

John Malone shows his adroitness in deal between Liberty Global and Telefónica

The Jimmy Choo shoe designer says jewellery has influenced her work

Pandemic forces rethink of luxury industry after cancellation of fairs

Global lockdown forces watchmakers to accelerate their digital transformation. Plus: Frédéric Arnault talks about Tag Heuer’s foray into smartwatches; smart jewellery translate sound for deaf people; and the value of vintage motorsport-themed watches is only going one way: up.

Watchmakers press on with new releases, despite the coronavirus

Smart jewellery can help people with disabilities but funding is needed

Tim Hayward helps the FT's Daniel Garrahan turn his kitchen into a Parisian bistro

It is right for the Fed to lead America towards faster and more efficient bank payments

Beijing wants to make companies impose obedience to China on protesting employees

Tetra Pak’s innovation overtook the glass bottle but it needs to be improved

This riveting account of how a piratical corporation subjugated India resonates with today’s global capitalism

The need to raise donations led MIT’s Media Lab to a terrible misjudgment

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

Energy companies facing climate protests need to limit the wasteful use of their products

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

The biggest brand launch since the Pink Lady is changing the nature of the fruit

LVMH’s $14.5bn bid for Tiffany shows power passing from gem miners to luxury marketers

Despite public anger, corporate regulation is likely to remain fragmented

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

Fortunes are created by technology and globalisation, as well as talent and enterprise

The valuation of an energy company cannot be engineered like the production of oil

Bernard Arnault’s company is the modern incarnation of La Samaritaine and Neiman Marcus

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

In a polarised time, the broadcaster has won listeners by embracing confrontation

In 16 years of columns on business, the only constant has been disruptive innovation

From high-tech to hygge, our homes changed at top speed in the 2010s — what will the 2020s bring?

As the stock market plummeted last month, managers of big companies saw value 

The after-effects of triumphant bets on Chinese companies should spur more gains for sceptics

Hedge fund chief bets on stockmarket recovery after profiting from coronavirus sell-off

Return of dispersion comes after years of similar returns across sectors

Rise of volatility and dispersion was supposed to bring a change of fortunes versus passive

Valuations do not reflect the risks that still lie ahead from coronavirus

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

Smaller companies in ‘epic rally’ on optimism over coronavirus and policy support

Bullish investors and gung-ho governors are setting themselves up for a big reality check

Lockdowns have elevated the sector that some analysts thought would fall furthest in a recession

Sell-off dents investment holdings despite uptick in operating profit

ISAL facility remains unprofitable as aluminium producers face weaker demand and prices

Business tycoon’s GFG Alliance makes first foray into fast-growing market after long court battle

Liberty Steel to modernise European plants in effort to become carbon neutral

Homeowners must use ‘cleaner alternatives’ for coal fires and wood-burning stoves from 2021

Move illustrates how coronavirus impact is rippling through manufacturing supply chains