“We wanted Updown to feel very relaxed, like you were staying at a friend’s house, so having an honesty bar seemed like a natural thing to do,” says its proprietor Ruth Leigh. “Some nights you will go ...

While Elon Musk was sparring in US political circles, halfway across the world in Shenzhen, BYD was quietly tallying up its global EV sales. In the first quarter of this year, it outsold Tesla in pure ...

A case against rightwing influencer Andrew Tate over claims of physical and sexual abuse is set to feature arguments about “coercive control” for the first time, the High Court in London has heard.

Given the recent thumping their portfolios have taken, investors could be forgiven for thinking that equities must now be factoring in a lot of downside risk. False hopes help no one, however. US ...

Hedge fund Elliott Management has built a position worth more than $1.5bn in technology group Hewlett Packard Enterprise, in its first activist campaign unveiled since President Donald Trump’s tariff ...

America’s risky corporate borrowers have been shut out of the bond market since Donald Trump’s tariff blitz, in a freeze that is reverberating across Wall Street and which threatens a tentative ...

Hundreds of people in Sudan have been killed and thousands forced to flee after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked two refugee camps in the country’s Darfur region, targeting civilians in ...

Trump’s envoy signals Washington may accept limited uranium enrichment over ‘full dismantlement’ of Tehran’s programme ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blackstone is joining forces with asset management companies Vanguard and Wellington Management in a “strategic ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bonuses at specialist investment firms in the EU have shot up since they were exempted from the bloc’s bonus ...

A net 61 per cent of respondents to Bank of America’s Global Fund Manager Survey expect the dollar to depreciate over the next 12 months, the most since May 2006. The dollar has tumbled 9 per cent ...

The 10-year Treasury yield, which sets government borrowing costs and underpins pricing on financial assets worldwide, fell 0 ...