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  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A striking U-turn to alleviate the UK cost of living crisis

    Rishi Sunak’s support for households is welcome, but windfall taxes are a bad policy

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Disrupted Times
    Millions of people ‘marching towards starvation’ as global food crisis worsens

    Also, Brazil’s tribes under threat, Europe develops energy back-up plan, UK reveals dire employment data

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    UK ministers poised to launch new £3bn recovery loan scheme

    Treasury to replace Covid support measures with tighter requirements to help business recover from the pandemic

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    UK inflation
    Johnson and Sunak say household support will not add to UK inflation

    Most economists disagree with chancellor but have offered varied views on precise impact on price trends

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Chinese economy
    China industrial profits fall as lockdown pain spreads

    Contraction heaps more pressure on government that insists on sticking to zero-Covid strategy

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Millennials
    A generation locked in the UK’s savings crisis

    Cost of living increases add to the financial problems millennials faced before the pandemic

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    FT live news
    Live news updates from May 27: Texas police made ‘wrong decision’ in waiting to storm classroom, G7 urges Opec to raise output
  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    North Sea oil and gas producers hit back at Sunak’s £5bn windfall tax

    Dismayed sector warns ‘multiyear’ assault on profits will ‘drive away investors’ and cut production

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Chris Giles
    Britain isn’t working. That should concern us all

    The UK has the most persistent post-pandemic drop in employment of any G7 country

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Commercial property
    Warehouse demand rages on despite Amazon pullback

    LondonMetric Property says companies are looking for ways to protect supply chains during ecommerce boom

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    FT SeriesAmerica’s red-hot labour market
    ‘People are still upset’: why Joe Biden’s jobs boom failed to win over voters

    Inflation and supply chain disruption are undercutting political gains from the economic rebound

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
    Covid accelerates drive to digitise African business

    Growth ranking shows change that began before the pandemic has gathered pace

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Chinese economy
    China turns a blind eye to labour violations to spur economy

    Businesses offered immunity from infractions but initiative threatens Xi’s common prosperity pledge

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    Sunak to unveil emergency aid over soaring household energy bills

    Chancellor’s measures expected to top £10bn and will target the most vulnerable

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Disrupted Times
    UK economic outlook worsens as income inequality rises

    EU banking system remains ‘resilient’, Pfizer chief warns of Covid complacency, Biden to issue US policing reform

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    European Central Bank
    ECB warns a house price correction is looming as interest rates rise

    Central bank says housing market reversal would hit low-income homes harder

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Global Economy
    Sombre and uncertain mood descends on Davos

    From foreign affairs to food crises, most business leaders have turned bearish because of global uncertainty

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    The Big Read
    How hubris and Covid transformed Sri Lanka from ‘donor darling’ to default

    The country has opened talks with the IMF over a $4bn bailout with observers waiting to see how China, one of the main creditors, will react

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    FT SeriesAmerica’s red-hot labour market
    Where are all the workers? The US states and sectors with the tightest jobs markets

    Nearly every employer is struggling to hire, but the problem is more acute for some

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    Poland
    EU ‘finalising’ deal with Poland for €36bn Covid recovery plan

    European Commission vice-president says deadlock over rule of law could end within days

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    Martin Wolf
    The Fed must act now to ward off the threat of stagflation

    We know from the 1970s that the time to throttle an inflationary upsurge is at the beginning

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    UK business & economy
    Growth in UK business activity falls to 15-month low

    Jump in input prices index to new record suggests inflation has further to rise, analysts say

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    Shaftesbury PLC
    Landlord Shaftesbury warns of inflation threat to central London recovery

    West End property group cites ‘complex range of operational challenges’ facing its tenants

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    Airbnb Inc
    Airbnb gives up on China as zero-Covid policy crushes tourism

    Rental company abandons push to compete in local market and shifts focus to overseas trips

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    UK public finances
    UK public borrowing falls as economy bounces back from pandemic

    Higher tax receipts boost government finances

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