Mobile app adds bond trading

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the JPMorgan China Summit in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, May 22, 2025. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Once a laggard in the online investing game, JPMorgan Chase now believes it is a leader. The…

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Scottish government to remove WhatsApp from phones

Getty Images Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, pictured previously with John Swinney, confirmed that the policy had come into force The Scottish government is ending the use of WhatsApp and other “non-corporate” messaging services for government business on its mobile devices. The move comes after the UK Covid Inquiry revealed officials and ministers had deleted…

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Voters know the real meaning of austerity and renewal

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer, an FT contributing editor, is chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts and former chief economist at the Bank of England Rachel Reeves is stuck between two insufferable abstract nouns: profligacy and austerity….

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Kroger (KR) Q1 2025 earnings

Shares of Kroger rose about 10% on Friday as the supermarket operator raised its full-year sales outlook and said it’s drawing shoppers seeking lower-priced store brands and cheaper alternatives to dining out. The Cincinnati-based grocer said it now expects identical sales, excluding fuel, to increase by 2.25% and 3.25% year over year, higher than its…

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My exit from wartime Iran

While millions of Tehranis chose to stay in Iran’s capital, others left to seek refuge from Israeli bombing. The author is a dual national who travelled 1,150km, through Iran’s countryside and mountains, in his efforts to return home to London. He asked to write under the pen-name Rostam. Three days into a visit from London…

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