Inheritance tax is just one of UK farmers’ long list of worries
The reforms to agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) mean farmers and agricultural landowners previously exempt from paying inheritance tax will, from April 2026, be ...
Japan’s beef bowl economy shows consumer resilience as prices rise
A severe labour shortage in Japan and higher wages have contributed to rising costs: the average minimum wage is set to rise by a record 5.1 per cent in the fiscal year to next March. Rising wholesale ...
Minecraft to come to life in Merlin theme park attractions
Minecraft will come to life as theme park rides and leisure attractions, as one of the world’s best-selling computer games teams up with Merlin Entertainments to attract fans in the US and UK.
Thyssenkrupp in €1bn writedown of steel business as demand slumps
The upheaval at Thyssenkrupp, which has since appointed new steel leadership, has unsettled German authorities. Berlin and local authorities have together pledged €2bn to support the company’s ...
G20 failure to explicitly back fossil fuel transition upsets COP29 talks
The G20 failure to make a direct mention of the need to transition away from fossil fuels in its leaders’ statement in Rio has escalated fears among key negotiators at the UN COP29 summit in Baku that ...
Transcript: The geopolitics of chips: A manufacturing miracle
James Kynge talks to Marc Assinck and Jos Benschop of ASML, Sanjay Natarajan of Intel and the ‘Chip War’ author Chris Miller ...
Live news: Nestlé cuts profit margin target
Nestlé has cut its medium term profit margin outlook and announced the separation of its European bottled water business, as its new chief executive Laurent Freixe sets out his plan to turn around the ...
EU and Mercosur miss a trick at Rio summit devoid of trade talks
Donald Trump’s election as US president and his threats to impose sweeping tariffs on imports has given the EU fresh impetus to seal new trade deals. But at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro — ...
FirstFT: Chinese tech groups grow AI teams in Silicon Valley
Alibaba, for example, is recruiting an AI team in Sunnyvale in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. It has approached engineers, product managers and AI researchers who have worked at OpenAI and the ...
Corporate insiders cash in on post-election US stock market surge
Record numbers of US executives are selling shares in their companies, as corporate insiders from Goldman Sachs to Tesla and even Donald’s Trump’s own media group cash in on the stock market surge ...
Teesside should not risk its clean energy future by fighting
Hopkinson now wants to move on. Despite its fractious neighbour, Teesport has a fine location. The port has been custodian of ...
Proposed EU move to T+1 could eradicate ‘suboptimal’ ETF dynamics
Monday’s recommendation from the European Securities and Markets Authority, that the EU move to T+1 on October 11 2027 means ...