u.s. economy 2021
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LIC/India: biggest ever listing marks IPO peak
India’s largest ever listing was meant to yield windfalls for millions of investors. Instead, shares in state-run Life Insurance Corporation…
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Indian insurer LIC slips in historic stock market debut
Shares in Life Insurance Corporation dropped more than 8 per cent on their stock exchange debut on Tuesday, as India’s…
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New York mayor urges Jamie Dimon to ride subway to work
Mayor Eric Adams is urging JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon and other New York City business leaders to ride the…
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Boeing’s HQ move revives worries over commercial plane arm
Boeing’s decision to transplant its corporate headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, should have signalled a new chapter in the…
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Qantas says synthetic fuel could power long flights by mid-2030s
Synthetic fuel could start replacing traditional petroleum and plant-based biofuels by as early as the mid-2030s, helping to decarbonise long-distance…
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Chip giant TSMC plans further price rises amid inflation concerns
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has warned clients for the second time in less than a year that it plans to…
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Jeff Bezos turns up heat on Joe Biden over US inflation
Jeff Bezos lashed out at Joe Biden’s White House on Monday over policies he claimed risked stoking inflation, escalating a…
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Putin signals acceptance of Finland and Sweden joining Nato
Vladimir Putin has signalled Russia will tolerate Finland and Sweden joining Nato, but warned the Kremlin would respond if the…
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Inside India’s complex relationship with crypto
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Ukraine will need massive economic support, too
Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has proved a catastrophic mistake. After Russian forces withdrew from around Kyiv last month, Ukrainian…
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Renault/VW: De Meo shows greater realism than Diess with Russia exit
How do you double the value of a Lada? Fill the petrol tank up. The quality of the Russian-made cars…
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Beyond the kebab
It’s rare to find anything as simple as a lamb kebab on the menu at Turk, one of the most…
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Cardinal Zen will not fear the fate that awaits him in Hong Kong
When I hosted a talk by Roman Catholic cleric Cardinal Joseph Zen at Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club in June…
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Nomura: pushing into bitcoin futures as price slump shakes confidence
Cynics can point to a couple of indicators that peak crypto has been and gone, beyond a slump in the…
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The top 10 classical music festivals in the US this summer
Summer for the City After the scourge of the pandemic, the first Summer for the City festival is offering New…
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Scott Morrison makes last-minute plea for votes with housing pledge
Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison has launched a last-ditch attempt to woo voters by pledging to allow first-time homebuyers to…
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Ofgem proposes more frequent changes to UK energy price cap
Energy bills for more than 22mn British households will change every three months rather than every six from October, under…
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EU and Nato allies seek to overcome internal divisions this week
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Let the Fed put money where it is really needed
The US Federal Reserve is surely the most powerful and misunderstood institution in the world. It was designed just over…
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Inflation returns to haunt Brazilians
Carlos Vieira, a carpenter in São Paulo, hoped runaway inflation was consigned to Brazil’s past. Now, with the cost of…
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Wheat prices rise almost 6% as India export ban shakes markets
Wheat prices rose by the maximum amount allowed on Monday after India imposed a ban on exports, stoking pressure on…
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FirstFT: Outlooks for EU growth and inflation worsen as energy crisis hits
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Harrow Beijing school loses its hallowed British branding
A Beijing school affiliated with the 450-year-old English public school Harrow has been forced to drop its famous brand name…
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Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein warns of ‘very, very high risk’ of recession
Former Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein warned corporate America and US consumers to be prepared for a recession as…
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North Rhine-Westphalia result deals blow to Scholz
German chancellor Olaf Scholz suffered a major setback on Sunday when his Social Democrats slumped to their worst-ever electoral result…
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Kathy Barnette shakes up US Senate race on back of abortion debate
The leak of a draft decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn abortion rights has sparked a crisis of…
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Fertility: childcare costs exacerbate the demographic drought
The Covid-19 baby bust — marked by falls of up to a fifth in December 2020 birth rates — was…
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Shanghai lockdown exposes global supply chain strains
In early March truck drivers at Suto Logistics were ferrying 1,000 tonnes of goods every day in and out of…
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Finland’s president Niinistö tells Putin the country will apply to join Nato
Finland’s president has told Vladimir Putin of the Nordic country’s plans to apply for Nato membership as a top Turkish…
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Airfares soar as Americans shrug off Covid and inflation to get away
US airlines are poised to raise ticket prices further as Americans shrug off the fastest rise in domestic airfares for…
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Is religion the new divide between Russia and the west?
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The damage wreaked by Johnson’s government will far outlast his premiership
Yesterday I found myself in a café next to a student who was typing furiously to finish an overdue dissertation.…
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Johnson delays plans to ban multibuy deals on unhealthy food
Boris Johnson has shelved plans to ban multibuy deals on unhealthy food in supermarkets after concluding that it would hit…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘We’re creating in a culture of intolerance’
This interview is an edited and condensed version of an on-stage conversation that took place at the FT Weekend Festival…
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The joy of living off the clock
For the next few months in New York, we’re going to have daylight until 8pm. As the sun stays out…
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Toshiba reveals takeover interest as battle heats up
Toshiba has said it has received interest from 10 potential partners, paving the way for a takeover battle that could…
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Occupy Wall Street, part 2?
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When democratic spin conceals a descent into dictatorship
Over the past 40 years or so, the face of dictatorship has changed a great deal. The most notorious tyrants…
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Australia accuses China of ‘act of aggression’ as spy ship hugs coast
Australia’s defence minister Peter Dutton has accused China of committing an “act of aggression” after a People’s Liberation Army naval…
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Cutting 90,000 civil service jobs grabs headlines, but will it actually happen?
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Latinx artists finally get New York recognition
‘Bodega juice on a Sunday’ (2022) by Danielle De Jesus at François Ghebaly. De Jesus captures the working-class residents of…
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Inflation: managing the threat to your pension
Lenin, the Russian revolutionary leader, is said to have remarked that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was…
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German policy shifts too slow for some, too fast for others
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Dublin can no longer treat Irish unity as a distant aspiration
The writer is an FT contributing editor The force lay in the symbolism. The parliament buildings at Stormont stood as…
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Dubai’s workers struggle with cost of living crisis
On any normal weekday, Dubai’s food delivery riders would be up and out early, but in recent days, banks of…
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China’s ‘homecomers’ herald flow of deals
China’s biggest stock market listing in a decade — China Mobile — has, in some ways, been an unexpected success…
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‘Future-ready’ in-house legal teams hone strategy roles
Many of the in-house professionals highlighted in this FT Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific report have made important commercial, as well as…
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Legal practitioners’ ideas boost business in the Asia-Pacific region
Already masters of their legal specialisms, the lawyers showcased here have made a mark by taking ideas across different disciplines…
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Diplomats face one last chance to revive Iran’s troubled nuclear deal
The writer is Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, and a former Iranian nuclear negotiator Nuclear…
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Powell confirmed for second term as Fed chair
The US Senate has confirmed Jay Powell to serve a second term as chair of the Federal Reserve, capping off…
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