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  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    Global Economy
    Alphaville. American healthcare costs drive global imbalances

    Dark matter revealed?

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  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    Central banks
    Fast-moving indicators are now showing the effects of the Gulf war

    Monthly surveys of economic activity and confidence have fallen more sharply among energy importers than in the US

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  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    Shale Oil & Gas
    Lex. US shale oil producers are wise to avoid the temptation of higher prices

    With little slack in the system, soaring prices don’t give operators that much of an incentive to let rip

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    A pumpjack silhouetted against an orange sunset sky in the Permian Basin near Crane, Texas.
  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    Energy sector
    Fusion start-up backed by Bill Gates plans UK’s first commercial plant

    Most ambitious British timeframe yet for the technology comes as US and China race ahead in funding for sector

    3 hours ago
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  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    The Bethlehem Project
    Dousing the DC ‘dumpster fire’: Democrats battle over party’s future

    Candidates in pivotal Pennsylvania seat hope to woo voters away from Donald Trump’s Republicans

    3 hours ago
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  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    Fashion
    Suits and the City revisited — how professionals dress in 2026

    Sophie Elgort had a street style column for the FT in New York 15 years ago. Here, she returns to six former subjects to see how style — and attitudes — have changed

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  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2026
    Collecting
    Does great art require solitude?

    From Giorgio Vasari to Agnes Martin, artists and writers have long insisted on the importance of being alone to create

    3 hours ago
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  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
    Oil
    Global oil reserves plunge at record pace as Middle East war strains supplies

    Stocks near 8-year low ahead of summer travel season despite collapse in demand

    Crude fell by nearly 200mn barrels in April
  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
    Canadian politics
    Carney appoints former international prosecutor as Canada’s Governor General

    Louise Arbour will hold constitutional role after distinguished legal career

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  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
    Europe Express
    Trump’s threats give EU pause for thought ahead of US trade deal vote

    Also in this newsletter: Compromise in Italo-Swiss fight over Alpine fire tragedy costs

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  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
    Argentine politics
    Argentina’s Milei battered by scandals and slowing economy

    President’s popularity falls as officials face graft allegations and unemployment climbs

    Javier Milei leans on a marble railing with a serious expression during a session at the Argentine National Congress.
  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
    US economy
    ‘An existential crisis’: residents pay for Nashville boom

    Tennessee policy attracts corporations and high earners but locals are being priced out of Music City

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  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Travel & leisure industry
    World Cup fans cry foul over ‘unprecedented’ US transport costs

    New Jersey to charge $150 for round trip to MetLife stadium, up from usual fare of $12.90

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  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Travel
    At 100, Route 66 still ties the US and the world together

    Even in the Trump era, foreign tourists flock to the ‘Mother Road’ in search of the true America

    Patti Waldmeir
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  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    EU energy
    Alphaville. Is the US truly resilient to the energy market strife?

    ‘Somewhat counterintuitive’ indeed

  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Canadian economy
    Canada’s beef producers say Mercosur trade deal will devastate industry

    Farmers fear a flood of cheap meat as Carney government looks for entry to South American bloc

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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
    Global Economy
    Trump’s green new deal

    The US president’s actions have inadvertently raised the appeal of renewable energy

    Tej Parikh
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  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    Berkshire Hathaway Inc
    Greg Abel’s message to Berkshire shareholders, post-Buffett: be patient

    New CEO ‘not anxious to deploy capital into subpar opportunities’ as he picks up baton from legendary predecessor

  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    Mining
    Canada’s diamond industry begins a long goodbye

    The closure of Rio Tinto’s Diavik mine is the beginning of the end for a lifeline of the remote Northwest Territories

    Aerial view of the Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada, showing large open-pit mine structures surrounded by snow-covered landscape.
  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    Mexico
    Mexican president caught between Trump and her party

    Claudia Sheinbaum risks US leader’s ire with refusal to hand over Sinaloa governor and nine officials on US drugs charges

    Claudia Sheinbaum stands at a podium during a press conference, with a mural of a woman holding a flag visible in the background.
  • Saturday, 2 May, 2026
    Markets
    EM’s vanishing diversification

    AI concentration makes EMs look like DMs

    Hakyung Kim
    An illustration showing red and blue financial line graphs superimposed over New York City skyscrapers.
  • Friday, 1 May, 2026
    Middle East war
    Trump’s Iran war leaves US with sharpest fuel shock in G7

    Petrol and diesel prices are rising more swiftly in America than other major economies including the UK and Canada

    A man in a cowboy hat cleans the windshield of a large white pickup truck at a Pilot gas station.
  • 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
    FT Globetrotter
    Inside the hotel that makes the Met Gala run

    The Mark is one of New York’s most elite addresses. Ahead of ‘fashion’s biggest night out’, we went behind the concierge desk to see how they keep the rich and famous happy

    Maria Wittorp, chief concierge at The Mark Hotel, stands behind the concierge desk on the phone, with an orange flower arrangement nearby.
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  4. World Cup fans cry foul over ‘unprecedented’ US transport costs
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