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  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    Markets
    Gilts and UK local elections: Bad vibes, bad timing

    Plus, more on emerging markets

    Daire MacFadden
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  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
    Samsung’s stock market value hits $1tn on AI euphoria

    Memory chip giant’s surge pushes South Korea’s Kospi to new record

    2 hours ago
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  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
    Emerging market investing
    Lex. Uzbekistan’s London IPO brings frontier markets closer to home

    Resource-rich nation’s move into foreign equity markets could tempt investors with the stomach for risk

    Premium content
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  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
    Markets
    Great expectations (for earnings)

    Stocks look cheaper — if everything goes perfectly

    Katie Martin
    Premium content
    An illustration showing a city skyline with two fluctuating line graphs, one red and one blue, superimposed over the buildings.
  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    EU defence
    Rheinmetall’s first-quarter revenues fail to meet expectations

    German company’s shares under pressure over profitability concerns and questions about the future of warfare

    A wheeled self-propelled howitzer is displayed indoors at the Rheinmetall munitions factory opening, with three people observing.
  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    US equities
    The US decoupling from the global gloom has limits

    Total economic and financial insulation is an impossibility

    Mohamed El-Erian
    The facade of the New York Stock Exchange draped with a large American flag, people walking with umbrellas on a rainy day.
  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Technology sector
    AI + Halo = $$$

    A techno-industrial boomlet

    Robert Armstrong
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  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Retail trading
    America’s retail army now rules the stock market

    Unbowed by the Iran war and other shocks, individual investors are buying their way to new heights of influence

    Ruchir Sharma
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  • Sunday, 3 May, 2026
    US equities
    The FT View. There is method in the market’s madness

    But it relies on a host of rosy assumptions going in investors’ favour

    The editorial board
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  • Sunday, 3 May, 2026
    IPOs
    Software group IFS gears up for listing amid AI unease

    CEO Mark Moffat says industrial software group will consider London, Europe and New York for IPO

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  • Sunday, 3 May, 2026
    Equity exchanges
    Canada’s TMX aims to spur mining listings boom in Australia

    Exchange group has bought ASX rival and wants to attract companies that struggle to list on country’s primary exchange

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  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    Meta Platforms
    Lex. Meta stock might look cheap if it weren’t for Mark Zuckerberg

    Not only is the Facebook boss spinning a lot of plates, but his worldview is not like that of a typical chief executive

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  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    UK companies
    Dividend payments from UK companies up ‘over a fifth’ on last year

    Total payouts were £16.4bn during the first quarter of 2026

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  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    The Weekend Essay
    Why markets are surging in spite of war

    Even amid a supply shock, tech stocks continue to drive indices higher. Is the optimism justified?

    A drawing of two high-rise cities separated by sea, one of them vibrant and flourishing, the other rundown and grim.
  • Friday, 1 May, 2026
    IPOs
    Alphaville. New Nasdaq rules offer SpaceX free liquidity

    Indexing methodology will provide a comfortable cushion for pre-IPO shareholders

  • Friday, 1 May, 2026
    Investments
    My latest portfolio revealed

    Now the Bank of England has called the top, I’ve never been so bullish about stocks

    Stuart Kirk
    A briefcase in front of an orange stock chart background, with flags of the US, UK, Japan, and HM Treasury sticking out.
  • Friday, 1 May, 2026
    WPP PLC
    WPP boss faces pay battle after opposition from proxy shareholder groups

    Investors told to vote against proposed £11mn pay deal for chief executive Cindy Rose next week

    Cindy Rose stands with arms crossed, wearing a dark blazer, in a modern office setting.
  • Thursday, 30 April, 2026
    US equities
    US stocks hit record highs in Wall Street’s best month since 2020

    Investors bet blockbuster AI spending will overshadow fallout from Middle East conflict

  • Thursday, 30 April, 2026
    Middle East war
    Oil falls back after surging to $126 on supply fears

    Brent crude hit new conflict high as blockade of Strait of Hormuz continues before dropping in wildly volatile trading

  • Thursday, 30 April, 2026
    Big Tech
    Google outpaces rivals as Big Tech’s AI spending plans rise to $725bn

    Meta stock drops on capex increase while Alphabet’s cloud business grows faster than rivals Amazon and Microsoft

    Logos of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta on a black background.
  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2026
    Emerging market investing
    Emerging market stocks hit record high as Asian chipmakers surge

    Rally for TSMC, Samsung and SK Hynix powers EM stock index’s rebound from Iran war losses

    A person sits facing large digital stock market boards displaying rows of red and green numbers at the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2026
    Exchange traded funds
    First ‘autocallable’ ETF launched in Europe

    Coupon-paying fund aimed at retail investors

    A trader sits in front of multiple monitors displaying financial data on the trading floor, with reflections of stock prices visible.
  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2026
    CATL
    World’s biggest battery maker CATL to raise $5bn

    Chinese group rides surge in foreign investor interest in renewable energy stocks since outbreak of war in Iran

    Silhouetted people walk past a large CATL logo and Chinese characters.
  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2026
    Markets
    Wall Street is getting twitchy on oil prices

    Plus, dollar dreams and reality

    Katie Martin
    Premium content
    A red cargo vessel named Al Mabroukah 2 is anchored in calm waters at the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Monday, 27 April, 2026
    Markets
    This rally runs deep

    Plus, the global won

    Robert Armstrong
    Premium content
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