Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Wall Street’s rebound since late March has been driven by the smallest number of stocks on record, pushing US market concentration to an all-time high and prompting warnings about the “fragility” of the rally. The…
CANADA – 2025/08/07: In this photo illustration, the SoftBank Group (Soft Bank) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares in Japanese tech-focused investment giant SoftBank Group soared 16.5% Thursday, amid a broader tech-fueled rally that saw Japan’s…
But if the super El Niño will offer a kind of brief preview of future warming, it will also offer a test of how well prepared and adapted the world is to that future. If droughts intensify across parts of Africa, how much worse will the world’s hunger crisis — already twice as bad as…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world US fuel exports have surged to a record level as Europe and Asia lean on American energy supplies to make up for the shortfalls caused by the war in Iran. More than 8.2mn…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Global oil reserves plunged at a record pace in April, as the conflict in the Middle East strains supplies and raises the risk of a further sharp jump in prices ahead of the summer travel season….
A screen displays the Nikkei 225 Stock Average figure on the trading floor at the Nomura Securities Co. headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 11, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korean stocks rose Monday to hit a fresh record, following their strongest monthly gain in April, as investors weighed tensions between Iran…
Yet another record week for stocks. Strong first-quarter earnings and a war-driven spike in oil made for another historic week on Wall Street. Investors also made sense of a spate of economic data and the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite gained 0.9% and 1.1%, respectively, over…
Apple reported a record quarter on Thursday. Yet outgoing CEO Tim Cook warned of some gathering storm clouds in the form of memory chip supply issues that could impact business in the near future. “Today Apple is proud to report our best March quarter ever, with revenue of $111.2 billion and double-digit growth across every…
For the past two years, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta have repeatedly set records for how much they are spending on artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, the four giants did it again. In the first three months of the year, the four companies reported in their financial results, they plowed a total of $130.65 billion into…
Across the United States some of the music industry’s legacy indie stores have been reporting their best day ever thanks to this year’s Record Store Day (RSD 2026) release line-up. As usual, Retail Track implemented the annual RSD store crawl on Saturday (April 18), visiting 10 stores that day to witness first-hand how RSD was performing. But…
