Press Digest: Financial Times - April 1
01/04/2026 03:55
April 1 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Headlines - Unilever combines food division with spice maker McCormick in $66 billion deal - King Charles to visit US in April despite Donald Trump's attacks - Microsoft faces UK watchdog probe over business software - OpenAI raises $3 billion from retail investors as part of record funding haul Overview - Unilever ULVR.L will merge its food business with spice maker McCormick MKC.N, creating a company worth around $65 billion in the second-largest food transaction in history. - Britain's King Charles will make a state visit to the United States in late April. - Britain's Competition and Markets Authority said it would launch a new investigation into Microsoft's MSFT.O business software ecosystem in May, including its use of software licensing in the cloud market. - OpenAI has closed its latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital, raising more than $3 billion from retail investors, at a post money valuation of $852 billion. (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom) ((globalnewsmonitoring@thomsonreuters.com))