Gulf disruption chokes sulphur flows supporting swaths of global industry

Shortage spurs surge in prices and threatens sectors from fertiliser to microchips as impact of war in Iran widens ...

Big rise in UK employers losing migrant worker licences after Home Office crackdown

The clampdown is the result of a government drive to weed out rogue bosses who fuelled a surge in overseas hiring in low-paid ...

Artificial intimacy: Prescribing robots to combat loneliness

Artificial Intimacy is presented by Cristina Criddle and produced by Persis Love and Edwin Lane. Additional reporting and ...

Pushing private assets: are Europe’s investors at risk of a mis-selling scandal?

New vehicles are being marketed to ordinary investors just as some similar products in the US have run into trouble ...

Lasers, radars and drones: Middle East war spurs hunt for cheaper air defence

The war in the Middle East has reinforced this point, with Gulf states having to rely heavily on firing missiles from complex and costly air-defence systems such as the US Patriot to neutralise Iran’s ...

Transcript: Corporate America grapples with huge oil price swings

Marc Filippino Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Wednesday, March 11th, and this is your FT News Briefing. The good times seem like they’re gonna keep rolling for Oracle. And corporate ...

Green investors threaten BP with legal action over rejected resolution

BP is facing a threat of legal action from activist climate investors who have accused the energy group of “an unprecedented attack on shareholder rights” over its refusal to include a resolution they ...

Cambridge university comes first in employer ranking

The University of Cambridge has emerged as the top ranked UK employer in this year’s Financial Times ranking, beating 46 other UK universities.

You’re gonna need a bigger bid — how movie props hooked collectors

High points in the past two years include Darth Vader’s Lightsaber from the Star Wars saga, which sold for $3.65mn last year; a “Rosebud” sledge from Citizen Kane, which went for $14.75mn and — by far ...

JPMorgan marking down loan portfolios of private credit groups

JPMorgan Chase has clamped down on its lending to private credit groups, with bankers looking to cut risk as concerns mount over the credit quality of companies in their stables. The bank informed ...

Enabling autonomy and creativity in the age of AI

Yet there is no shortage of automated and prescriptive protocols in the modern workplace — with the spread of AI likely to also reduce some workers’ autonomy. So is it even possible for employees ...

Is intergenerational inequality unfair?

Some of the evidence is spurious. It channels the thinking of “Kevin The Teenager,” a fractious TV sketch show adolescent with the catchphrase: “That’s so unfair!” For example, some pundits and ...