A South Korean politician who narrowly escaped being stabbed to death in January is ending 2024 as the clear favourite to be elected as the country’s next leader, after two weeks of political turmoil ...

A pat­ent dis­pute between GSK sub­si­di­ary ViiV Health­care and Colom­bian reg­u­lat­ors is not cur­rently before the Inter­na­tional Centre for Set­tle­ment of Invest­ment Dis­putes in Wash­ing­ton ...

Andrew Wis­hart is an eco­nom­ist at the bank Ber­en­berg, not Cap­ital Eco­nom­ics as wrongly stated in an art­icle on Decem­ber 14 ...

Major industrial and fossil fuel groups push for mandatory requirement in letter to European climate commissioner ...

In the meantime, we agree that consumers need clear information. Shop-bought food complies with all relevant regulations on nutritional labelling, but this is not always easily understood by hurried ...

From Professor John Bateson, Honorary Professor of Management, Bayes Business School, City St Georges, London University, UK ...

But surely the chancellor should be grasping the opportunity for this government to bring other state employee pension arrangements on to the same platform by closing all unfunded schemes to future ...

The lack of preparedness for retirement across the UK is an issue in need of urgent attention and policy certainty, for workers and industry alike. Sir Keir Starmer, as first lord of the Treasury, ...

In John Thornhill’s recent column “The future of AI agents is lucrative but surprisingly dull” ( Opinion, December 6), I was particularly taken by the reference to “zero-employee autonomous companies” ...

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Lines represent weighted moving averages, points represent polls. Shaded areas represent the range of likely values after accounting for sampling and industry errors ...

This is Unhedged, the markets and finance show from the Financial Times and Pushkin. I’m Katie Martin, a markets columnist and still a baker of delicious mince pies at the FT in London. And I’m joined ...