Financial Times Asia (Weekend) - 16 Nov 2024
Musk’s wealth to hit new heights as deals fire up SpaceX and xAI
Scholz urges Putin to end Ukraine war in first call between leaders for 2 years
How to trade in the Trump era
American icon Martha Stewart
Neither baffled nor energised
PULLED TOGETHER
Lebanese laud flag carrier that defies Israeli bombing
Liberals speak an odd language
▸ Loyalist rubber stamp
▸ Kennedy sparks pharma rout
▸ Mainstream media fears
▸ Corporate issuers rush
▸ John Burn-Murdoch
Zhuhai reels after latest China mass killing
Regional leader blames Valencia flood alert failure on Madrid
Brussels downgrades growth forecasts
More than 40 arrested and €520mn of assets seized in mafia crackdown
Opening of megaport in Peru raises concerns about Beijing’s influence
Tehran endures daily power cuts as Iran battles to conserve gas supplies
Britain top destination after US for legal migrants as 2023 breaks record
Trump plumps for loyalists to rubber-stamp radical agenda
President-elect’s picks
Russia urges US to remain in Paris climate agreement
Lebanon’s ‘badass’ carrier shrugs off risks of war
Israeli strike flattens Beirut building as bombing intensifies
Court probes von der Leyen’s Pfizer texts
Netanyahu aide quizzed over alleged October 7 call tampering
Leftist Sri Lanka leader wins landslide
Musk’s Doge: all bark and no bite?
Refugee who became a towering figure of postwar art
Deft or daft — a judge’s antitrust handbag ruling
Trump broke the Democrats’ thermostat
Trump’s alarming picks for government
Israel editorial is spot on, but alas a year too late
A fellow New Yorker offers personal take on the president-elect
Important distinction that is not just semantics
Zappa’s nostalgia for the cigar-chomping executives
Schemers, sycophants, ideologues and billionaires
Chopsticks at dawn!
Recalling Waugh’s critique of a socialist Utopian state
Why Germany needs a transformation strategy
Audiobook pros and cons
The man who would be German chancellor
How to trade in the Trump era
We forget comparative advantage at our peril
Top reads at FT.com/opinion
Pharma stocks hit after Trump discloses choice of health chief
Nintendo and Sony face ‘grim’ holiday season with old consoles and no big releases
Grubhub founder says he made $1bn buyback bids
TSMC secures $11.6bn under act that may have had its chips
Staying afloat
Mali move
Fintech pioneer heads for billion-dollar payday in New York
Nissan to warn jobs at risk over UK electric-car fines
Sex party planner Killing Kittens seeks money to take events global
Deutsche cuts costs
Mainstream media fears for its future in the second Trump era
Jane Street bets on Hong Kong start-up turning China’s noodle shop sales into securities
ProSieben shareholder MFE raises heat on board
Dealmaker Malone seeks wider scope for mergers
US corporate issuers race to benefit from Trump rally
Mali’s junta escalates conflict with mining groups over its share of profits
H2O investors file court challenge to €250mn FCA settlement
Killing the CAT is the aim of investor activists
The day in the markets
Hyundai appoints US citizen Muñoz as co-chief to face Trump challenges
Europe must tackle its economic troubles with greater urgency
Disney tosses popcorn at long-suffering investors
Reeves must go bigger and bolder on local pensions reform
Why Trump’s expected tariffs won’t necessarily sink shipping groups
NIKKEI ASIA
The exceptional nation
Squid Game returns
The Mayan attraction
Jo Ellison
Love and the way we live
The exceptional nation
‘It’s colossal — but exciting!’
CAFÉ DECO
Can Lululemon win men over?
Out with the flat displays, in with the kinetic sculpture
The unusual loyalty tactics of Percival
Retro foundation gets a modern makeover
Backroads of the Yucatán
Short cuts: Orient Express takes to the seas, Bluey goes to Brisbane
From beach toy to adventurers’ best friend
Nuclear options
What Wallis Simpson really did in Shanghai
Powers of belonging
Triumph to tragedy
Bad dads loom large
Notes on letting go
Tea and sympathy
‘It’s more about Earth than about space’
Life, death and everything else
The return of Squid Game
Bob Dylan
Pop goes the nude
THE LIFE OF A SONG
‘Ballet Shoes’ on point for our age
Egon Schiele’s natural side
Art world reacts to Trump victory
Shining a light on Mumbai
CROSSWORD
POLYMATH
BRIDGE
CHESS
Solution 1,308
Solution 17,890
Peace, love and Bigfoot
Lamentations of a lost liberal
History in the making at the Met
Why are governments so bad at problem solving?
American money meets French wine tourism
Thoroughly modern mezze
How to fight the bland-ification of seniors’ food
Lamb and hummus
Wines from the Dupré portfolio
The making of an American icon
Liberals speak a different language
‘Car Window’ (2018) by Tania Franco Klein
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Chess solution 2598
Mountain modern
A 21st-century snow rush
Mountain modern
I’m obsessed with TikTok estate sales
#92: Charles Stewart Parnell, County Wicklow, Ireland
Living the rêve in Revelstoke
Evergreen inspiration
Mountain views
Gee whizz
Cultural highs
Tyrolean with a twist — and no chalet needed
‘Hygge’ in your ‘hytte’
i / AT A GLANCE
Beauty and the beasts
New York City in winter
Table talks of the town
What’s on in New York this winter
Starry nights: four of the best new hotels
My top 10: Ariella Budick’s guide to The Frick
Comfort and joy: Eric Ripert’s top places to dine this season
Three serene winter getaways in the Hudson Valley
How to nail a festive trip to NYC
Lustre for life: chasing New York’s neon dream
Where to soak, steam and sauna
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