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NMC Health founder eyes a return to embattled group

77-year-old entrepreneur BR Shetty ‘looking to buy out Emirati partners’




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UK watchdog probes mystery of top NMC Health investors

FCA and group seek to clarify positions of BR Shetty and other leading shareholders




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Saudi Arabia’s former energy minister returns in cabinet reshuffle

Khalid al-Falih to lead a new government ministry for investment




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Saudi Arabia launches oil price war after Russia deal collapse

Kingdom to raise crude production and offer deep discounts just as coronavirus hits demand




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Saudi Arabia oil gamble threatens modernisation drive

Decision to drive down crude price after Russia row will hit revenue




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NMC Health finds evidence of suspected fraud in its finances

Middle East-focused group’s discovery follows revelations over undisclosed debt




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Eight days that shook the oil market — and the world

How a squabble between Saudi Arabia and Russia led to ‘the nuclear version of a price war’




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Saudi Aramco slashes spending as oil price war rages

Capital expenditure expected to fall 23% at state energy company




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Saudi Aramco doubles down on output hike as price war intensifies

State-backed company says it can sustain 12m barrels a day for up to a year




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Gulf economies rocked by coronavirus and oil price war

Government revenues plummet as crude prices sink and private sector cuts jobs 




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Dubai vows to support Emirates as global airlines race for cash

Government to inject equity into state-owned carrier in latest intervention in aviation sector




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Saudi Arabia’s PIF takes 8.2% stake in cruise operator Carnival 

Rare sign of investor confidence in industry battered by coronavirus pandemic




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NMC expects administration as it fails to win creditors’ backing 

Former FTSE 100 group has been in turmoil over its financial arrangements for months 




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NMC administrators seek to assure UAE medical staff

Hospitals run by the former FTSE 100 company are tackling the coronavirus outbreak




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Plus500 continues its winning streak

Online trading platform says revenue for this year will far exceed expectations




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Plus500: jumping at the chance

Trading performance may well have peaked and investors should be prepared for losses




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Reflections on the stock market downturn

My portfolio is down about 35 per cent, but I’m sticking with my small-cap heroes 




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Schroders demands executives take pay cuts and ‘share the pain’

City investor will back ailing groups looking to raise capital but warns of difficult decisions




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Private equity and bailouts, the sequel

Buyout groups wants a slice of the bailout and with thousands of jobs at risk, they’re hard to turn down




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Coronavirus: Government support for small businesses — Your questions answered

Claer Barrett wants to hear readers’ experiences of accessing business interruption loans




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State-backed SME lending picks up pace too late for many

Third of UK small businesses reported so low on cash they cannot survive longer than 2 more weeks




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Insolvency: light touch, heavy cost

New process likely to be popular but there is room for improvement




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Coronavirus claims thousands of UK businesses 

At least 21,000 more companies failed in March compared with the year before 




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Private investors hit by dividend drought

A payout passed leaves a scar on a company’s record that can never be erased 




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Half of SMEs in UK will run out of cash in 12 weeks, finds survey

Research by accountancy network reveals 7 in 10 respondents have lost half their revenue




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Live Q&A: ‘Bounce back loans’ for small businesses

Your chance to grill FT experts on the government’s rescue measures for small businesses




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PPE cottage industry comes to health workers’ rescue

Grassroots manufacturers overcome lack of machinery, materials and supply chain experience




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Small businesses locked out of government grant scheme

English companies with shared offices excluded from coronavirus rescue package




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How Covid-19 is escalating problem debt

Threat of redundancies and business failures means higher earners need help with their finances




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Why only a reverse bail-in can save the economy now

In 2008, it was decided an over-leveraged banking system must be bailed in by the private sector. Post lock-down the exact opposite is true.




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Live Q&A: Will you apply for a Bounce Back Loan?

Government-backed scheme designed to help smaller UK firms launches on Monday




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UK pledges extra funds for businesses that share office space

Government to provide £617m to plug gaps in rescue package based on business rates system




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More than 100,000 apply for ‘bounce back’ loans

Requests from small businesses estimated at £3.3bn as banks open for coronavirus support




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Streamed movies to be eligible for 2021 Oscars

Academy makes exemption to rule over screening films in cinemas




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Éric Rohmer at 100: an antidote to hyperactive screen media

The French director’s centenary is celebrated with a new box set of his subdued, subtle films




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Sleaze and racism in Netflix’s Hollywood take shine off ‘golden age’

New period drama about an aspiring actor pulls back the curtain on postwar Tinseltown




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Rising High — a raucous German comedy of real estate fraud

Berlin’s property boom is the setting for Cüneyt Kaya’s film




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The Assistant — a coldly furious indictment of a film mogul monster

Kitty Green’s response to the Harvey Weinstein case unfolds with muted rage




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Ema is a humdinger of a film from Chilean director Pablo Larraín

A woman’s life unravels spectacularly in this wildly original movie




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Mr Klein — Joseph Losey’s lost classic re-emerges

Alain Delon stars in this existential thriller, set in Nazi-occupied Paris




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How is culture adapting to quarantine?

Plus: the FT's film critic on what to watch now




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Which films have you been watching?

Join FT film critic Danny Leigh for a live chat on Friday May 1 at 12pm and 5pm UK time




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David Stratton’s Stories of Australian Cinema is a riveting overview

The much-loved film critic traces how the nation’s film industry found its voice in a three-part series on BBC4




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The best adventure films to stream at home

From skiing in the high Andes to free-diving beneath a frozen Finnish lake




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Blown away: Corneliu Porumboiu on his crime thriller The Whistlers

The Romanian director’s new film is a noirish tale built around a non-verbal language from a small Spanish island




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Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy is a zippy film about the ethno-gastronomer

Elizabeth Carroll’s documentary spotlights Kennedy as celebrity cook and social historian




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The Whistlers — an impish thriller of double-crossing and tables turned

Corneliu Porumboiu’s crime movie is a colourful tribute to noir classics




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Becoming — a Netflix documentary on Michelle Obama and her legacy

There are potent moments here amid the stage-managed gloss




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Infinite Football — documentary unveils a blueprint for a football revolution

Corneliu Porumboiu’s film introduces us to a man with big ideas for the beautiful game




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Richard Dreyfuss plays an elderly man with his head in the stars in Astronaut

Shelagh McLeod’s film is a small, warm drama of space and family