Older workers, especially older women, often have it tough at work. They may struggle to break into senior roles or find themselves forced to leave work by family or caring commitments. As a result, ...

Today many school leavers are opting to earn while they learn, and apprenticeships are a great example of a vocational career route. But apprenticeships only work if we can create a policy environment ...

These despicable acts took place while the same developing nations amassed huge and mercantilistic trading surpluses which were deployed and invested to distort and artificially lower long-term ...

French state-owned energy giant EDF will keep four ageing nuclear power stations in Britain open for longer than planned, in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a historian and public speaker Thirty years ago, the US network NBC asked me to create a TV ...

Stating “Suicide has been lawful in the UK since 1961”, as Michael Romberg writes ( Letters, November 18), is indeed one side of the coin. The other side is that killing yourself is no longer illegal.

Few things say “near a market top” to me like $6mn being spent on a banana and some sticky tape. Shades of 1987 (“Bitcoin and bananas add a new twist to conspicuous consumption”, Lex, November 23).

However, I was soon brought down to earth when I came across the article by John Gapper on the shady business of mis-sold loans in Britain for motor cars by car dealers and brokers (“British banks ...

In Japan’s highly conservative corporate environment, a CFO focused on shareholder interests may even be viewed as a predatory outsider rather than a partner. Thus, the solution lies not in importing ...

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Cryptocurrencies representing a euthanised grey squirrel, a Thai pygmy hippopotamus and a cartoon dog have exploded in value ...

Fusing the gripes of anonymous embittered current and former employees, some of whom will have been resistant to the ongoing transformation programme, will not help move the focus of the organisation, ...

South Korea’s benchmark stock index fell in early trading on Wednesday amid political chaos in the country, while the currency strengthened after the finance ministry promised “unlimited” liquidity ...