Tag: Financial Times
2010 archive: The FT speaks to Chávez
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Video archive: Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez and Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, talk to Matthew Garrahan as he travels through South America following the film maker Oliver Stone, whose new documentary...
Gold – finally losing its lustre?
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As fears of financial collapse ease and equities rally, gold is falling out of favour - for now at least. Currently the yellow metal is trading at about $1600, down significantly from highs set more than a year ago....
Post-Chávez oil opportunity
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Venezuela has the world's largest reserves of oil. Lex's Stuart Kirk and Vincent Boland discuss how the death of Hugo Chávez, the country's president, could be an opportunity for the country to exploit better that v...
Test for the easy money era
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Michael Mackenzie, the FT's US markets editor, wraps up the fallout on the markets from political and economic pressures in Italy and the US. For more video content from the Financial Times, visit
Past continues to haunt Bangladesh
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Influential Bangladeshi politician Delwar Hossain Sayedee has been convicted for 'crimes against humanity' during the country's 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Amy Kazmin, south Asia correspondent, explains ...
Boris Johnson: the meaning of Eastleigh
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The ruling Conservative party was pushed into third place by the UK Independence party in the Eastleigh poll. Boris Johnson, mayor of London, tells London and Southeast correspondent James Pickford why the result wa...
Pope Benedict abdicates
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Benedict XVI officially resigned as pope on Thursday, leaving the Vatican for Castel Gandolfo, a papal residence outside Rome. The abdication took effect at 8pm Italian time and was symbolised by the closing of the ...
Is it all bad news for UK economy?
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Moody's, the credit rating agency, has cut the UK from triple A to double A1. Kevin Daly, UK economist at Goldman Sachs, talks to economics editor Chris Giles about the effect the downgrade has had on the economy an...
Abe nominates Kuroda to run BoJ
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Haruhiko Kuroda, president of the Asian Development Bank, has been confirmed as the Japanese government's choice to become the next governor of the Bank of Japan. The FT's David Pilling profiles Mr. Kuroda and his p...
Pope addresses final papal audience
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Pope Benedict XVI addresses tens of thousands of pilgrims in St Peter's Square, the Vatican, for his final general audience before he abdicates on Thursday. For more video content from the Financial Times, visit
Connected life – everything becomes ‘smart’
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Mobile connectivity is already changing how we live, a fact being shown like never before at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Daniel Thomas, telecoms correpondent, reports on how the industry's bigges...
The mobile operating system battle
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Apple's iOS and Google's Android are by far the two biggest smartphone operating systems but the race is on for third place. Daniel Garrahan reports from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on the new players ent...
Mobile internet reaches rural Indonesia
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Only 40 percent of Indonesians have a bank account, but over 90 percent have a mobile phone. For both entrepreneurs and multinationals, that represents a big opportunity. The FT's Ben Bland visits rural West Java to...
Can you shake up the UK’s ‘Big Four’ auditors?
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Lex's Stuart Kirk and Oliver Ralph cast a sceptical eye over the proposed measures by the UK's Competition Commission to dilute the dominance of the 'Big Four' accountancy firms in the audit market. For more video c...
Who are the Bakries?
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They are infamous in the rest of the world for mudflows and their conflict with Nat Rothschild over Bumi Resources, but in Indonesia, the influence of the Bakrie family is far wider. As well as their business intere...
Preserving old Shanghai
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After 30 years of chasing development before anything else, many Chinese cities are now rediscovering traditional architecture and learning to preserve their old buildings. The FT's Patti Waldmeir visits some of Sha...
Oil man at the helm
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BHP Billiton has named Andrew Mackenzie as its new chief executive, replacing Marius Kloppers. Although Mr Kloppers is likely to be remembered for his failed acquisitions, BHP Billiton outperformed its peers under h...
In search of a quick buck
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Facing a slowdown in profits, high-frequency trading firms are pushing deeper into new asset classes such as bonds, currencies and derivatives. But as the practice, which disrupted and revolutionised stock trading, ...