Investors push for higher yield on $14bn of Oracle-backed data centre debt
Huge bond offering comes amid concerns over tech giant’s debt load and recent flood of AI-related issuance
Letter: Football’s resistance to prediction may add to its global appeal
From Professor Julio M Ottino, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Letter: Meyerowitz’s elusive art of photography
From Joanne Carter, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
Letter: Popes normally condemn the sin and not the sinner
From Myra A van Hus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Letter: O’Brien and McInerney on prosecco vs champagne
From Patrick O’Byrne, Dublin, Ireland
Letter: Who let the dogs out?
From Paul McIntyre, London N19, UK
Letter: Long life — The Beatles to Keith Richards
From Dr Rob Buist, Bondi Junction, NSW, Australia
Letter: People who are positive about ageing live longer
From Professor John Bateson, Bayes Business School, City St Georges, London University, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, UK
Letter: True grit
From Michael White, Skipton, North Yorkshire, UK
Correction: Maya Matsuura
Maya Matsuura took the photographs accompanying an article on the home in Denmark of Susanne Havning and her late husband Mogens Svend Koch, not Peter Vinther as wrongly stated in an article in House & Home on April 18
Letter: First city of capitalism and globalisation — Potosí
From Pablo Drake, Vice-President, Unidos por la Historia (United by History), Madrid, Spain
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Texas governor threatened to pull World Cup grants in battle over ICE enforcement
Democratic cities hosting Fifa matches in the state reverse policing rules in order to receive public security funds
German regulator clamps down on UniCredit ads amid takeover bid for Commerzbank
BaFin has prohibited Italian lender from describing German bank as ‘neglected’, ‘unsafe’ or ‘short-term-oriented’
Transcript: The Mandelson Starmer saga stumbles on
Miranda Green talks to Jim Pickard, Anna Gross and Chris Smyth
Sovereignty of Falklands ‘not in question’, says Number 10 after leaked US memo report
UK official defends ‘islanders’ right to self-determination’
Amazon-backed nuclear developer X-energy surges 27% in trading debut
Company taps rising demand for electricity from data centres to power AI boom
US stocks race ahead of Europe as Wall Street shrugs off energy shock
Intel surges above dotcom-era high in latest milestone for tech-powered rebound
US prosecutors drop criminal probe into Fed chair Powell
Breakthrough removes potential hurdle to Kevin Warsh’s confirmation as next head of the central bank
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Schrodinger’s Strait
A non-comprehensive list of companies that made less money than Jane Street last year
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Trading firm Jane Street doubles annual revenues to $40bn
Record haul surpasses investment banks that once dominated Wall Street
Starmer promises imminent laws to ban IRGC
Previous UK governments argued Terrorism Act was for banning non-state terrorist organisations only