Mining boss calls for price support to challenge China’s critical minerals dominance

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Mining myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Western governments should provide price guarantees for critical minerals miners if they are to compete with Chinese rivals who receive huge state support, the boss of leading platinum producer Sibanye-Stillwater has said. The comments by Neal … Read more

The natural gas trap

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is David S Lobel professor in business and sustainability and professor of political economy at Stanford University I recently served as an expert witness in court. A question put to me … Read more

Wood Group accounts flagged by watchdog as far back as 2017

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Red flags were raised over Wood Group’s financial statements as far back as 2017, according to corporate and regulatory records that indicate persistent questions over its accounting practices. The London-listed company — which the UK’s … Read more

Private equity can defy the gloom narrative

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is co-head of private equity at KKR The private equity naysayers are out in force in 2025. Underlying the latest predictions of the industry’s demise is a notable mis-step many firms made by over-deploying … Read more

All hail the equity vigilantes

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Capital markets myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Everyone knows bureaucracies don’t shrink themselves. Why on earth would they? Rather, their sole aim is to grow bigger, concluded economist William Niskanen in his budget-maximising theory of 1968. No one in Britain should have expected … Read more