Transcript: The Fed’s silent treatment
Katie Martin speaks to Robert Armstrong
FirstFT: US AI models sold to blacklisted Chinese groups
Also in today’s newsletter: Mervyn King picked for Fed reform and largest US listing by foreign group
Japan finance minister urges giant pension fund to invest more at home
Yen, bonds and stocks buoyed by Satsuki Katayama’s call for investors to shift from foreign to domestic assets
Can an AI ‘superforecaster’ beat the market?
When it comes to predicting Fed decisions, the AI does not (yet) have an edge
Transcript: The economics of weight loss, with Rebecca Diamond and Claer Barrett
Soumaya Keynes talks to Rebecca Diamond and Claer Barrett
Wall Street’s giant memory windfall
The blockbuster listing of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix could earn investment bankers nine figures in fees
Transcript: World Cup stirs up colonial past
Marc Filippino talks to Jennifer Hughes, Simon Kuper, Saffeya Ahmed and Afua Hirsch
The secret of Spain’s impenetrable World Cup defence
‘La Roja’ have not conceded a goal in the tournament despite aiming to have every outfield player in the other team’s half
How AI changes the rules of engagement for sports viewers
Spectators will see more opportunity to move from pricey subscriptions and rigid schedules to more personalised feeds
UK pharmacies report high demand as weight-loss pills go on sale
Rollout likely to accelerate the hit being felt by supermarkets as users of the drugs buy less food
Founder of energy group DCC blasts board for backing takeover ‘on the cheap’
Jim Flavin joins other major shareholders of FTSE 100 company in rejecting £5.7bn private equity offer
NHS hospitals admit to errors in data used to defend Palantir contract
Four trusts confirm there were errors in the underlying hospital data on discharge delays after FT probe
HSBC looks for buyers of Hong Kong subsidiary Hang Seng’s risky loans
Debt sale an early sign of how UK bank intends to overhaul retail lender after taking it private this year
UBS helped trigger exodus from Blue Owl private credit fund
Bank advised some clients to cut exposure, hitting a fund it had been instrumental in setting up
EasyJet: orange upstart that changed flying prepares to go private
European low-cost pioneer is set to be bought by private credit group Castlelake for £5.5bn three decades after its launch
SK Hynix’s jumbo share sale a sign of overheated times
Perhaps it will be some comfort to those with longer time horizons that market anomalies don’t last for ever
OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups
US groups have been supplying AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent
How Venezuela’s ‘Hugo Chávez City’ collapsed
A complex named for the late socialist leader has become a death trap
Why AI could be a financial ‘sludge’ buster
Regulators want to use the technology in their bid to cut red tape
Chicago pensions face insolvency in downturn, mayoral candidate says
Years of low contributions in a city struggling with budget pressures have led to billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities
Why the ‘Cannes of the north’ is back in vogue
Dinard combines belle époque glamour, pristine beaches and superlative seafood — without the Riviera bling
Battersea Power Station accounting claims probed by UK watchdog
FRC is scrutinising allegations of financial misreporting at London landmark development
All you never wanted to know about corporate bond market issuance
How the debt capital markets sausage gets made
How the French fell for wellness
Even Parisians do Pilates