Новости за 30.12.2020

Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine approval raises hopes of beating pandemic but questions remain on speed of rollout

Acadia has been trying to offload UK’s biggest mental healthcare business for more than a year

Investment bank’s blank-cheque vehicle joins dealmaking highway but the outlook is cloudy

Classes in areas with highest rates of virus will not fully restart until at least January 18

Garda aims to prevent organised crime exploiting new trading regime with north

Governments need to turn emission reduction pledges into action

Deal advisory boutique is going public via a Spac merger during an M&A revival

Kremlin cracks down on opposition as President Vladimir Putin’s popularity wanes

Commodity trader strengthens ties with Russian state-backed group by investing in Vostok Oil

Will the breakthrough allow the UK to check its soaring Covid infection rates?

Targets are increasingly carrying the can for investors’ questionable funding decisions

In European banking there is limited time to jostle for new deals

From City of London traders to Indian rickshaw drivers, everyone uses a more intimate style of conversation on video calls

Takeover by UniCredit considered as Italian government faces deadline to sell stake

A return to semi-normality in six months is a realistic estimate

Officials complain they are not receiving as many batches of jab as promised by government

Great art and artists on show in the world’s best museums and galleries

Rumours of a cabal of satanic sex traffickers plotting to overthrow the US president shifted from far-right fringes to the mainstream

Who called an FT writer a liar — then invited him to lunch? Who sold 1m copies of her debut book? Who is known as the ‘Darth Vader of Wall Street’? Savour the best of this year’s Lunches . . .

Stamp duty holiday and desire for more space boost demand but many expect prices to stall or fall in 2021

From the March panic to the stimulus-soaked rally, the coronavirus crisis left investors awestruck

President signs decree suspending country’s chief justice for 2 months

Pope Francis strips Holy See’s central administration office of assets

Lee Jae-yong vows to improve transparency at the tech giant

Here are our forecasts of the macro trends that will drive the next year