China’s ambassador to the US has been scrambling to connect with potential Trump administration officials after several years of struggling to get meetings with Republicans in Washington.

Iran has kept the door open to negotiations with the incoming Donald Trump administration, while warning the US ...

Large economies will generally be more closed to external trade than smaller ones (hence the EU and Eurozone are more closed than individual member states), but the US is in a league of its own ...

The average size of a portfolio trade remains around $50-60mn, and the vast majority of the individual chunks being included are smaller than $5mn. But, according to Barclays, the average number of ...

The Korean star on the joy of playing to an audience and taking a break from the San Francisco Opera to make her Covent Garden debut ...

A new facility in Malaysia takes a novel approach to creating the crucial material for electric vehicle batteries ...

Making Books in the Middle Ages by Sara J Charles (Reaktion) This fascinating book explores the medieval process of bookmaking and reproduction that was often arduous, back-breaking, eye-straining ...

Regulators complete first stress test to estimate how climate fight will affect banks, insurers and pension funds ...

Abrdn’s new chief executive Jason Windsor has made sweeping leadership changes in a bid to improve the UK asset manager’s investment performance after a difficult period.

Assuming it cuts in December 2024, we think the Fed will deliver two additional 0.25 percentage point cuts in 2025, spreading out the easing at six-monthly intervals. This would bring the policy rate ...

Private prison stocks are breaking out. Shares in Geo Group and CoreCivic, two of the largest for-profit operators of prisons ...

Clemente Tivioli, Carlo’s son, spent his childhood shuttling between Milan (where Tivioli’s Gae Aulenti-designed boutique sits on Via Santo Spirito) and Turin (where its laboratory is based), ...