Japan’s bonds
Plus, India’s wobble
FTAV’s further reading
US capital structure; darts; Japan; Meta; the Muppets x Disney; critical dependencies; and Sweden
Hungary lifts 17-month veto on Ukraine’s EU membership bid
Also in this newsletter: Talking tough and acting soft on migration
FirstFT: Trump’s US manufacturing push falters
Also in today’s newsletter: Russian drone warfare and SpaceX IPO
Trump to nominate his former lawyer as US attorney-general
Blanche has been justice department’s acting leader since Pam Bondi was ousted in early April
Accelerating Business
A monthly series that examines how the legal ecosystem uses new technologies to serve fast-changing business needs. This time: how legal tech stalwarts plan to maintain their service to clients as challengers mount incursions
Europe’s Best Employers
In the report, we look at defence groups rise up in the FT’s employer ranking; Amsterdam as an attractive employment hub; engineering’s gender gap; debate over work-life balance in start-ups; Americans look abroad for the longer term
Transcript: Why foreign investors love Boston
Marc Filippino speaks to Ian Hodgson and John Foley
Transcript: Mideast war — The view from Tehran
Gideon Rachman talks to Najmeh Bozorgmehr
The Barbican’s High Society is all froth, no fizz
Diamond-stud performances from Felicity Kendal and Freddie Fox enliven an underpowered production
Kirkland & Ellis and Palantir to build AI tool to assist private equity firms
Technology to be used to advise buyout groups on bringing in money from investors such as public pension funds
Russia prunes Armenian rose trade ahead of election
Moscow’s trade restrictions put pressure on western-friendly government in Yerevan
America’s ‘other’ economy tells a different growth story
Investors should pay attention to the struggles of the consumer packaged goods industry
AI cyber security risk ‘top of list’ for banking threats, says UK regulator
Sam Woods, the outgoing chief of the PRA, says he is ‘very concerned’ about vulnerabilities in lenders’ IT systems
The Knicks’ Wall Street odyssey
How NBA owner James Dolan righted the ship at his sports teams and business empire
Nvidia takes AI battle from the data centre to the laptop
Chipmaker opens new front in rivalry with Apple, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm
Indian stocks lose out to Asian rivals in global hunt for AI winners
Exchanges in Taiwan and South Korea have overtaken India’s in the past week as the two countries’ chipmakers surge
Anthropic’s relentless race to the top
Can the AI company hold on to its ethical founding principles as it strides to market with its most powerful and unnerving tool yet?
Trump and Netanyahu replay 1982 Beirut stand-off
An angry US leader stops an assault on the Lebanese capital. An ancient castle is captured. Israel’s invasion echoes a grim, old script
Could YouTubers save Hollywood?
From ‘Backrooms’ to ‘Obsession’, Gen Z filmmakers are using minimal budgets to deliver mammoth box office returns
How we compiled the 2026 FT-Nikkei Investing in America rankings
Methodology behind the latest edition of the rankings that reveal the top US cities for international business
How investors need to adapt to a new era of ‘spikeflation’
Diversification is the first defence against uncertainty and investors should seek inflation hedges like commodities
France’s €110bn AI boom tests Macron’s tech ambitions
Investors warn approvals and local opposition could slow France’s massive data centre build-out
Javier Milei: Argentina invites AI to free itself
As we enter a new era of technology, AI must be permitted to develop without premature regulation