Republican attorneys-general say Wall Street groups underplay China risks
Republican attorneys-general from more than a dozen US states have accused BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan of misrepresenting the risks of investing in China, including the possibility of a ...
Saudi Arabia’s high-wire act wobbles amid Trump’s Gaza gambit
On Sunday, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomed Syria’s new interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Riyadh. Barely three months ago, Riyadh had hosted former president Bashar al-Assad, now in ...
The Parisian vintage emporium that dresses Rihanna and Zendaya
Her specialism is occasionwear from the big French designers, and she has one of the most extensive collections of vintage Chanel out of any vintage shop in Paris (the brand’s Foundation recently came ...
Strongmen celebrate USAID media funding freeze
Trump administration move to temporarily shutter US agency triggers crisis for independent outlets in ex-Soviet space ...
Temu’s business model is here to stay
It has also diversified geographically — limiting the impact of tax loophole closures. The US accounts for less than half of Temu’s global GMV, compared with 100 per cent three years ago, when the app ...
Could the world decouple from US trade?
Last week, I wrote about US President Donald Trump’s administrative self-coup (or autogolpe) — his orders to the executive ...
UK anti-terror scheme criticised over handling of Southport child killer
Axel Rudakubana’s referral to the UK counterterrorism scheme was closed prematurely, three years before he murdered three ...
GSK is emerging from its long convalescence
Yet GSK is clearly healing from its multiple comorbidities — the worst of which was the (now largely resolved) legal overhang related to heartburn medicine Zantac. Chief executive Emma Walmsley also ...
Bank of England halves growth forecast and cuts rates to 4.5%
The Bank of England has halved its 2025 growth forecast and cut interest rates by a quarter-point to 4.5 per cent, as it contends with a stagnant UK economy and an increasingly uncertain international ...
Canada’s Bombardier delays 2025 guidance on US tariff uncertainty
Bombardier separately announced strong results for the fourth quarter, with full-year revenues rising 8 per cent to $8.7bn, driven by a record performance in its services business, and 146 aircraft ...
Eli Lilly expects to beat profit forecasts on obesity drug demand
The world’s biggest drugmaker Eli Lilly has forecast that profits for the year will beat expectations, after two choppy quarters when disappointing sales of its blockbuster weight-loss drugs led to ...
Evelyn de Rothschild left bank after sexual misconduct complaint
Employees were informed on Wednesday that Evelyn de Rothschild, one of the most prominent members of the 256-year-old dynasty, left the bank after an investigation into a sexual misconduct complaint ...