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FINANCIAL TIMES
Wednesday, 25 March 2026
 
 
 

Top Headlines from the UK Edition

 
 
 
Musk lawyers try to bar Delaware judge over LinkedIn ‘like’ cheering legal defeat
 
Quinn Emanuel says judge must recuse herself over post, which judge says she may have liked ‘accidentally’
 
 
US to deploy more troops even as Donald Trump praises Iran peace talks
 
Members of 82nd Airborne to join other forces in the Middle East ahead of president’s deadline for Tehran to end conflict
 
 
OpenAI to end Disney deal and Sora video app
 
CEO Sam Altman is shifting AI start-up’s strategy to focus on its core products
 
 
VW in talks with Israel’s Iron Dome maker to shift from cars to missile defence
 
Plan with Rafael Advanced Defence Systems focuses on using carmaker’s Osnabrück plant to produce parts for air defence
 
 
Trump’s Armageddon-Taco shuffle
 
One minute he threatens death and destruction, the next he says the US and Iran are engaged in negotiations
 
 
 

Top Headlines from the International Editions

 
 
 
Hot springs to rice crackers: Japan’s small businesses suffer Iran war energy crunch
 
Reliance on imported fuel is strangling the world’s fifth-largest economy
 
 
China reviews $2bn Manus sale to Meta as founders barred from leaving country
 
Deal scrutiny deepens over official fears of strategic tech flowing overseas
 
 
Democrat wins special election in Mar-a-Lago district
 
Small-business owner focused campaign on rising costs in Donald Trump’s backyard
 
 
Pentagon appears to be ‘punishing’ Anthropic in violation of free speech, judge says
 
Jurist expresses scepticism about Trump administration’s position and calls defence department’s actions ‘troubling’
 
 
Iran says ‘non-hostile’ ships can transit Strait of Hormuz
 
Tehran tells IMO member nations that vessels must co-ordinate with it to pass through vital waterway
 
 
 

Markets

 
 
 
Canada and Norway move to capitalise on Iran war oil price surge
 
Nations position themselves as reliable suppliers in a ‘desperate’ world
 
 
Investors snap up debt to finance Electronic Arts’ $55bn take-private
 
Bond deals tied to acquisition of video game maker show appetite for risky debt despite geopolitical tumult
 
 
Arm shares rise as it forecasts revenue boost from in-house AI chip
 
SoftBank-owned tech group projects fivefold revenue increase in five years
 
 
Why are markets listening to Trump?
 
The price of chasing the news
 
 
Indian cricket team Royal Challengers Bengaluru sold for $1.8bn
 
Diageo offloads IPL franchise to consortium that includes Blackstone, Aditya Birla and Times of India
 
 
 

Companies

 
 
 
Private credit’s public reckoning
 
Is private credit at an inflection point?
 
 
Merck nears $6bn biotech deal to boost cancer drug pipeline
 
Terns Pharma stock has jumped since promising clinical data on its bone and blood cancer treatment last year
 
 
Charting the OpenAI ‘ecosystem’
 
Map of the problematique
 
 
UK backs switch to electric trucks and vans with £1bn funding
 
Government legally obliged to cut emissions under its commitment to reach net zero by 2050
 
 
Tech system failed to warn air traffic controllers of imminent crash at New York airport
 
Standard staffing was in place at LaGuardia, but officials have expressed reservations about overnight practices
 
 
 

Opinion

 
 
 
Jefferies’ M&A possibility brings forward the moment of reckoning
 
As interest rates have moved higher the US investment bank’s soured legacy deals and investments are coming to the fore
 
 
Wounded Meloni needs new ambitions for Italy
 
The prime minister should put economic reform ahead of constitutional change
 
 
Vets and their private equity owners get a light ride from British competition watchdog
 
The six biggest veterinary groups control 60% of the £6.7bn market — and they can keep getting bigger
 
 
Time to scrutinise populism’s ‘supply side’
 
Volatility traders have come for our democratic politics and are showing that turbulence pays
 
 
War in Iran risks triggering cyber insurgency
 
Hackers are usually more interested in money than patriotism but this time might be different
 
 
 

Work & Careers

 
 
 
Why are London’s top galleries full of laptops?
 
Freelancers are moving their desks to combine working with fitness, socialising and culture
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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