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When a company is sold there tends to be a standard playbook: There’s some tough negotiations. Then, the buyer gets a business and the seller gets a check. Everyone’s happy. That’s not what happened when a private equity firm recently bought a California grocery store chain. The FT’s Wall Street editor Sujeet Indap explains how the deal went off the rails, and how the supermarket’s owners might end up paying millions of dollars to sell their company. 
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For further reading:
The inequity method of accounting
Opposition shadows Cerberus windfall from Albertsons supermarket deal 
The pool is closed, part 1
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A few years ago, four men went on a hunting trip to Wyoming. That trip would end up changing their lives — and possibly, the future of the public’s access to millions of acres of land in America's western states. The FT’s Oliver Roeder expands on the saga that’s played out since 2021 inside courtrooms and within thousands of pages of legal documents.  
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For further reading:
Battle for the American West
Seven states, 3,000 miles: a trip across the US energy divide
Wyoming’s Carbon Valley aims to turn ‘coal into gold’
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Introducing Money Clinic’s Five Minute Investor, a miniseries hosted by Claer Barrett, the FT’s consumer editor. In each episode, Claer challenges top financial commentators to break down financial jargon in just five minutes, making you a smarter, and hopefully richer, investor. Tune in every Tuesday, and subscribe to Money Clinic wherever you get your podcasts. If you would like Claer to demystify an investment term, email the team at money@ft.com or send Claer a DM on social media — she’s @ClaerB on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.
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WeightWatchers is struggling. Launched in the early 1960s, the brand grew by helping members shed pounds through behavioural change programmes. Then, GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs hit the market, long-time spokesperson and board member Oprah Winfrey announced her departure, and the company’s credit rating was downgraded. FT reporter Anna Mutoh examines whether WeightWatchers’ latest strategy can produce the turnaround investors are hoping for.  
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For further reading:
WeightWatchers faces an era when weight loss comes in a syringe
Behold the Ozempic effect on business 
The race to develop the next generation of weight-loss drugs
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The US and China’s battle for dominance in the semiconductor industry is having some surprising knock-on effects: Companies are looking to insulate their supply chains from rising geopolitical tensions. And many from around the world are setting their sights on Malaysia to set up or expand their chip factories. FT correspondent Mercedes Ruehl explains how the country earned a prized spot in the supply chain, and what it needs to do to keep hold of it. 
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For further reading:
Malaysia: the surprise winner from US-China chip wars
Vietnam dangles semiconductor incentives to draw foreign companies
AI boom broadens out across Wall Street
Plus, sign up for the FT’s Alphaville pub quiz on April 9 in New York. 
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The past several years in the US Treasury market have not been what you’d call smooth sailing. Three crises in a decade recently pushed regulators to introduce important changes to the world’s largest and most liquid market. The Securities and Exchange Commission passed the most significant reform a few months ago. The FT’s capital markets correspondent Kate Duguid examines that change — plus the potential pitfalls and promise that come with it. 
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For further reading:
The radical changes coming to the world’s biggest bond market
Has Gensler’s SEC pushed Wall Street too far?
SEC tussles with shadow trades in the US Treasury market
Ransomware attack on ICBC disrupts trades in US Treasury market
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