Who are you calling PIGS now?
... but already it was impossible to say which was which
Pandora to start making platinum jewellery after silver price soars
Danish group looks to ‘stop being so linked’ to silver after near quadrupling of the metal’s price
Anglo American warns of third De Beers writedown in three years
Miner is looking to sell or list diamonds business as it completes mega merger with Teck Resources
Starmer engulfed in leadership speculation as he backtracks over Mandelson papers
UK PM agrees to parliamentary oversight of release of documents about peer’s appointment as ambassador to US
China’s memory boost and Apple’s iPhone shuffle
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
Shell to return further $3.5bn to investors and boost dividend
FTSE 100 oil major’s move comes despite lower oil prices
It’s not just a tech sell-off
And more on the sentiment puzzle
BNP Paribas lifts outlook for shareholder returns
French bank posts resilient fourth-quarter earnings although Sudan legal appeal casts a shadow
Merz tours the Gulf as Germany seeks new trading partners
Also in this newsletter: EU ports hit by illegal fishing paperjam
FTAV’s further reading
Kashinomics; data centres in space; newspaper murder; the total portfolio approach; and the Epstein files
TSMC to produce advanced chips in Japan
World’s largest chip manufacturer is diversifying production of 3-nanometre semiconductors
FirstFT: Google to double AI spending to $185bn
Also in today’s newsletter: Drahi’s assets and Visma’s London IPO
Kevin Warsh will struggle to shrink Fed’s balance sheet
Fed chair nominee has been consistently opposed to quantitative easing since the financial crisis
Jeffrey Epstein’s web of influence
Marc Filippino talks to Cristina Criddle and Chris Cook
Canadian pension funds to exit UK’s biggest port operator in £10bn deal
CPPIB and Omers appoint Morgan Stanley to explore sale of stakes in Associated British Ports
Why KKR is buying Arctos for $1.4bn
The private equity pioneer is making its foray into sports and secondaries
There are good reasons to be cheerful about global trade
Donald Trump’s inept tariff campaign hasn’t yet derailed globalisation
Nearly 70 English councils say they face insolvency over special needs debt
Plea illustrates dilemma facing government as it attempts to overhaul increasingly expensive system
Software sell-off threatens to delay London’s €19bn Visma float
Buyout group Hg weighs pushing back blockbuster IPO until second half of the year
Transcript: Can diplomacy avert a US-Iran war?
Andrew England speaks to Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House
Lloyd’s insurers must be ‘risk-on’, says chief
Investment flooding into defence, energy and AI means industry must be ‘brave and ambitious’, Patrick Tiernan told the FT
KKR to buy sports investment group Arctos for $1.4bn
The acquisition will also propel the private capital firm into so-called secondaries investments
Chinese provinces set lower growth targets for 2026
Economists say Beijing likely to trim national goal for GDP increase to 4.5-5% this year
On South Africa’s ‘Wild Coast’, a former leper colony is reborn as a dreamy retreat
A road trip through the Eastern Cape takes Sophy Roberts far from the tourist trail — and to a former leper colony reborn as a dreamy retreat