Japanese’s chief currency official warned of “deep concern” over the yen’s weakness as traders weigh the risk of government intervention to arrest its slide. Atsushi Mimura, Japan’s vice-finance ...

The coastguard was pursuing the tanker Bella 1, a sanctioned and unregulated vessel en route to Venezuela to load a cargo of oil, according to a US official. The operation followed the boarding of ...

In a data centre outside of Osaka, Japan, Nvidia’s cutting-edge semiconductors are at the disposal of one customer: China’s Tencent. The advanced B200 chips are owned by Datasection — a Japanese ...

Donald Trump’s administration faced new criticism of its handling of documents related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the justice department removed 16 files, including an image of the ...

Your Big Read is rightly sceptical of Meta’s AI plans (“Inside Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI”, December 17 ). “Avocado”, Meta’s new AI model, like its namesake, is likely to take a frustratingly ...

That judgment is surely odd. Any poverty-reducing steering of capital needs to ensure some redistribution from the wealthy (be they corporations, countries or individuals) to the poor; and any ...

Your article “Putin’s frozen assets threat rattles EU capitals” ( Report, December 19) fails to take any account of the large moral hazard issues at hand.

Continuing the convenient use of whale oil to keep the parlour lamps lit reduced whale populations and perhaps altered ocean ecology. A bad outcome, but nothing like the catastrophes to come with ...

Taking the long view, your report (“People made fire much earlier than thought, scientists find”, Report, December 11) reveals that we have been able to control fire for at least 350,000 years.

It is the job of the minimum wage to protect low-paid workers regardless of industry. Executives in the City would do well to remember that campaigns for the modern living wage started in Canary Wharf ...

The UK has performed quite similarly to truly similar economies like France and Germany since Brexit, as noted by Julian Jessop in a recent Substack piece and in his letter to the FT on December 3 ( ...

The Digital Networks Act is the moment to cut red tape while preserving essential consumer protections and give Europe the benefits of the single market, its greatest strength. If Europe cannot decide ...