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US start-ups are raising more cash than at any point since 2021 thanks to investor bullishness about artificial intelligence, but the venture capital market has tilted sharply towards funding a handful of huge private tech companies. More than $30bn has been invested into fledgling groups already this quarter, according to PitchBook data. A further $50bn … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Multibillion-dollar market research group Kantar is set to be broken up and sold by owners Bain and WPP, shifting from a plan to pursue a stock exchange flotation of the company over worries about the … Read more
The world economy is emitting carbon dioxide faster than ever before, meaning our planet is heating up faster than ever before. Martin Wolf speaks to someone who has spent much of the past two decades at the forefront of the climate debate. Lord Adair Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a think-tank focused on climate … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The curse of the modern gamer is owning hundreds or even thousands of games and still never managing to find anything you really want to play. With myriad platforms, constant digital sales and almost 19,000 … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the UK’s largest pension funds has pulled £28bn from State Street, in a high-profile example of an asset owner pushing back against the retreat from ESG among the biggest US asset managers. After … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How do you know when a bubble has popped? Twenty-five years ago on Monday, a multiyear US stock rally hit its peak and began a precipitous decline that would wipe 77 per cent off the … Read more
Wind and solar farms are wasting energy at rising rates by stopping production because there is not enough capacity to transport or store the electricity when demand is not high enough to use it straight away. Almost one-tenth of Britain’s planned wind output was stopped from being produced last year and almost 30 per cent … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU business regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The EU will stick to its world-leading climate goals, the bloc’s economic competitiveness tsar has vowed, even as it prepares to water down some of the green policies to placate the bloc’s ailing industry. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than 140 countries struck a deal on a strategy to raise and distribute billions of dollars to protect nature at a UN biodiversity summit that provided a “light of hope” amid rising geopolitical tensions … Read more