East’s 3D raise was weak, and E/W did well not to bid on; 4D is doomed to fail, and no one in 4C made it. West led 7♣. Declarer suspects that all the missing aces are with the opener. Declarer plays ...

Participants with the fastest-ageing brains were 12 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than contemporaries with brains about 10 years younger, according to the research. Having an ...

The Risk Factors of any IPO document is dumping ground, designed to throw in every conceivable threat, from war and pestilence to currency market fluctuation. It’s written by lawyers and for lawyers.

Ministers are poised to drop a controversial plan to split Britain’s wholesale electricity market into different geographical zones in a move that could lead to the south of England paying more for ...

UK group warns of deteriorating trading conditions in second quarter ...

Bearish outlook comes a year after state investor opened Paris office and promised to commit $19bn to the region ...

Seven of the UK’s biggest housebuilders have agreed to pay a total of £100mn after an investigation by the country’s ...

To add FT coverage as predictors, we ran more than 40 years of FT articles through a well-known topic model, named Latent Dirichlet Allocation. This gives us a clear picture of what our journalists ...

Your recent article on the European Commission’s mooted borrowing mechanism to fund member states in emergencies understates the financial significance of such an operation. It is no longer true that ...

From Professor Feng Li, Associate Dean for Research & Innovation, Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, London EC1Y, UK ...

US pharma giant seeks to expand footprint beyond cancer treatment as its biggest product nears patent cliff ...

Ruchir Sharma (“The world is changing, US markets are not”, Opinion, June 30) points out that US retail investors are all in, buying at an unusually aggressive pace this year.