This is an audio transcript of The Economics Show podcast episode: ‘Martin Wolf speaks to Christine Lagarde — Europe’s ‘existential crisis’’ ...

The US has struck alleged Islamic State militants in north-western Nigeria over attacks against the African nation’s Christians, Donald Trump announced in a post on social media on Thursday.

Raising off-balance sheet debt via an SPV has become more popular as the amount of capital needed to fund AI infrastructure has skyrocketed, stretching tech companies’ cash reserves. Morgan Stanley ...

Ukraine is ready to withdraw “heavy forces” from the parts of the Donbas region it still controls if Russia mirrors the pullback as part of a peace deal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ...

After years of caution towards crypto assets, traditional finance's biggest players are shaking up the market, introducing ...

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Investors were transfixed all year by the steady escalation in the amount of capital being thrown at AI data centres. Morgan Stanley had predicted spending would grow 20-25 per cent. By last month, ...

The Ballad of the Last Guest, expertly translated by Krishna Winston, conjures the spirit of both writers: Handke’s protagonist Gregor Werfer shares his first name with the hero of Metamorphosis; ...

Once the residence of French kings, the Louvre was first turned over to public displays in 1793, during the revolution. The last major overhaul transferred a wing once inhabited by the finance ...

Fabricio Bloisi said he was “willing” to invest more in the food delivery sector as part of Prosus’s goal of creating a $100bn European tech champion, at a time when US rival DoorDash has just bought ...

The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts This is a repeat of an episode published on The Rachman Review, a sister podcast of the FT News Briefing, on Nov. 20, 2025 View our ...

Ali Khalpey, head of Middle East at Cantor, said the slowdown came after a “very strong run” and investors were now “looking back and taking stock of where valuations were . . . It’s no longer ‘let’s ...