Retail sales rise by 40 per cent in second quarter

Retail services group’s new Shop app needs a price gimmick to lure buyers in

The website this week notched up 240m unique visitors

Finding love in a time of corona is tricky, converting activity into paid accounts is harder yet

Investment group that owns US malls pledges to help groups weather coronavirus crisis

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How markets are beginning to stir from their coronavirus-induced slumber

Trump ally Tom Barrack’s investment group in talks with lenders over hotel and nursing home debt

Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell says other countries could face big ‘second wave’

Investors demanded too high a price to lend to US carrier reeling from coronavirus shutdown

The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and the number of deaths around the world

Interest rate cuts and massive fiscal stimulus are expected to weigh on the greenback

Eighth consecutive cut could heap fresh pressure on already struggling lira

First-quarter volatility deals $39bn blow to SNB as it steps up fight for Swiss franc

When a chart can speak 1000 words. Not all of them entirely sincere.

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

Short bets rise to highest level of 2020 over Brexit and Covid-19 concerns

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

‘Cat-and-mouse game’ pitches central bank against market forces

Large foreign financing requirement and small reserves leave Erdogan facing cash crunch

Currency softens beyond key level as investors brace themselves for more interest rate cuts

S&P 500 falls after Big Tech raises red flags over virus impact and US-China tensions ratchet higher

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

Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

Two experts debate the long-term impact on inflation of the Covid-19 rescue packages

Rial to be changed to the toman after five decades of inflation

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

Analysts fear unintended consequences of central bank’s vast foreign-currency holdings

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

Country’s finance minister seeks to reassure investors on impact of Covid-19

Stuart Levey, known for tough enforcement of sanctions on Iran, will head digital currency project

Ankara’s banking regulator acts after currency slides below level reached in 2018 crisis

Governments should borrow more to stave off secular stagnation

Higher education should not be treated as just another business

Schools can spread infection, but long absences mean gaps in learning

Candour about the fiscal deficit might return the Democrat to prominence

Pandemic combined with collapsing oil prices spells real hardship

A collapse in demand is reducing prices even as central banks print money

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is building the case for his own impeachment

Business cannot expect emergency cash without sensible conditions

Programmes should be flexible and help workers move to in-demand sectors

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

Popular funds have survived a period of intense market stress

Investors are looking to the future, but should beware of over-optimism

Regulators must ensure that lenders’ defences are sufficiently robust

Near-unconditional cash transfers are the most efficient form of relief

A bailout is the Mediterranean country’s only option to refloat its sinking economy

Replacing migrant fruit and vegetable pickers is harder than expected

Economic woes go well beyond the coronavirus crisis

Countries should avoid turning to nationalism and share the burdens