Private capital firms Permira and Blackstone are buying a $525mn stake in a Middle Eastern real estate classifieds business in a bet that a boom in Dubai’s real estate market has further to run.

Further to Philip Stephens’ Weekend Essay on “Ireland’s ‘British question’” ( Life & Arts, FT Weekend, August 16) the most important aspect to any prediction of the future of Ireland is the remarkable ...

Forecasting the future may have its merits, and is certainly more sanitary than the Roman practice of haruspicy — divination by inspecting animal entrails (“How economists lost traction”, FT View, ...

Democrats in Washington have published a birthday message that Donald Trump allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein more than 20 years ago, as the US president faces renewed pressure over his links to the late ...

Anglo American is close to acquiring Canada’s Teck Resources in a mostly stock transaction that could value the company at about $20bn in one of the mining industry’s largest deals, said people ...

President of Japan’s Daikin says sales of some units have only been one-third of predicted levels ...

Ireland’s government is overshooting its spending targets, highlighting the vulnerability of the public finances despite a forecasted €30bn budget surplus this year, the country’s fiscal watchdog has ...

Microsoft has signed a deal worth up to $20bn with the artificial intelligence infrastructure group Nebius to supply computing power for the tech giant’s AI operations over five years.

Pret A Manger has written off a third of the value of its 2018 acquisition by European investment group JAB, pushing the UK-based coffee and sandwich chain further into the red as higher costs and an ...

India’s regulators have long blocked the country’s public and private banks from providing loans to domestic companies to buy equity in other businesses. That has pushed acquirers turn to bond issues, ...

But a senior South Korean official said the companies had been placed in an “impossible position”, as successive US governments pushed them to invest billions of dollars in reviving American industry ...

Reform UK would cancel any plans to build high-speed rail lines across the north of England if elected, its deputy leader said, as Nigel Farage’s party chases votes across Labour’s northern heartlands ...