Trump opens the door to Putin’s grandest ambitions
Vladimir Putin’s initial plan to capture Ukraine in a few days ended in disaster. But after Donald Trump bypassed Kyiv and European allies to set up direct peace talks with Mosc ...
US private equity-backed data centres fuel growth of TikTok’s Chinese owner
Global buyout groups often do not know whether ByteDance uses their facilities to exploit a legal loophole to access chips ...
Travel group HBX’s shares sink after IPO
HBX said the value of stock sold on the Madrid stock exchange was up to €860mn depending on the exercise of an overallotment ...
The surprising rebirth of the art investment fund
Wealth managers have certainly had their heads turned — in 2023, 90 per cent of 435 art and finance stakeholders surveyed by ...
AI is evolving so quickly that bank analysts are becoming self-aware
It’s part of a coming generation of AI bots with long-term memory, internet access and the power to keep improving ...
Dream State — playing happy families
Eric Puchner’s evocation of 21st-century multigenerational American family life is masterfully built if contrived ...
NHS may need private funding to fix buildings, says head of England’s health service
The UK government should consider the use of private capital to fix the NHS’s crumbling buildings and infrastructure, the ...
Donald Trump says he’ll meet Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia for Ukraine war negotiations
Good morning! The world leader du jour in Washington is Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is expected to offer US President Donald Trump deals on trade, energy and defence during their meeting ...
Big Tech’s hinterland of ideas
A good place to start, I have found, is to read what the big beasts now in power in the US say about their fundamental ...
Tech should be the ally of the creative industries
The creative industries seem to go in and out of fashion with British politicians. So it was heartening to see their contribution highlighted in this government’s first Budget, worth £125bn to the UK ...
Inflation is back on the agenda
Flukes . . . elevated January inflation. But in the nearly thirty years from 1992 to 2019 there were also all sorts of flukes ...
Sharp fall for BAT shares after £6.2bn provision for Canadian litigation
BAT announced the provision as part of its full-year results for 2024. It comes after BAT, together with rivals Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco, in October made a C$32.5bn (US$22.7bn) ...