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What is Apollo, anyway?

2024/9/17

Apollo Global Management is publicly traded and one of the largest alternative asset managers in the

Forty years ago Ireland had a high number of emigrants and very few multinational corporations. Then

Will the US central bank lower interest rates by 25 or 50 basis points? Fed chair Jay Powell has hin

By many measures, the US housing market is broken. High demand is causing high prices, and yet, year

Boring but sexy (stocks)

2024/9/3

The run-up in the markets over the past year or so has been largely driven by tech companies with ou

Toby Nangle is a regular contributor to the FT. Before he was a journalist, he was an asset manager

The gold rally

2024/8/27

The price of gold reached a record high this week, passing $2,500 an ounce. Market watchers often as

Why do central bankers gather in the middle of nowhere every summer? And what will this week's meeti

Two weeks ago, investors seemed headed for the exits. Now they’re back in and cash is flooding the m

How would you like a 265,528,900 per cent return on your investment? Would you be interested in that

Jim Leaviss started his career in fixed income at the Bank of England, and is ending it 30 years lat

Ackman is one of most well-known investors in the US, and one of the loudest. He has more than a mil

Anatomy of a rout

2024/8/6

On Monday, markets around the world agreed to go into a tailspin. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong a

The case for Tesla

2024/8/1

Tesla’s earnings slightly disappointed last week, but its stock is still valued at nearly 100 times

Wall Street withheld tens of millions of dollars in campaign financing to pressure US President Joe

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has argued for a weaker dollar in recent interviews. That makes

The Trump trade

2024/7/23

As the election nears, Wall Street is starting to talk more about what a bet on a second Trump presi

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority just released rule revisions that are meant to attract new list

Investing in green tech

2024/7/16

Last week the FT’s Moral Money writer Simon Mundy spoke with venture capitalist Vinod Khosla about 2

Paramount and Skydance are merging. That’s a win for David Ellison, whose small studio will join a l