Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping…
South Africa’s mining minister was campaigning in Rustenburg, the northern capital of the country’s platinum belt, when news broke of BHP’s £31bn proposal to take over Anglo American. Five weeks before critical general elections for the ruling African National Congress…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) shakes hands with China’s Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Photo by Leah MILLIS / POOL…
As one public health threat takes a bow, another takes center stage. Less than a year after the end of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, a group of international political, public health, and biomedical leaders warns of another menace…
Reform UK’s leadership calls it an “entrepreneurial political start-up”. Uniquely, the rightwing populist party is also structured like one, with Nigel Farage at its centre. Arch-Brexiter Farage heeded the lessons from his years running a UK Independence party beset by…
A pedestrian walks past the Bank of Japan (BoJ) building in central Tokyo on July 28, 2023. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate unchanged Friday after its monetary policy meeting,…
It’s now illegal to sell weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to minors in New York, under a first-in-the-nation law that went into effect this week. Experts say loose federal regulation of dietary supplements has resulted in these products sometimes including unapproved ingredients, like…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence helped boost Microsoft’s cloud sales past analysts’ forecasts, as demand for the high-profile technology challenges the company’s capacity…
Amy Hood, chief financial officer at Microsoft, speaks during a presentation on affordable housing in Bellevue, Washington, on Jan. 17, 2019. Chona Kasinger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft is increasing spending at a rate not seen since at least…
“Physical therapists are movement experts,” says Roger Herr, American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) president. They’re especially important to older adults given that about half of physical therapists’ patients are over the age of 65—and that number is expected to grow…