Chinese equities and currency extend declines in rocky start to year
China’s equities and currency extended losses on Monday after a rocky start to the year, as weak economic data and ...
Live news: Chinese equities extend declines in rocky start to year
Chinese equities fell in early trading on Monday, extending early underperformance for 2025, as the country’s two largest ...
How Austria’s embrace of the far right could fracture the EU centre
Austria’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) appears to be on a glide path to the country’s chancellery, after negotiations among centrist parties collapsed and the moderate conservative People’s party ...
Axes of evil: love’s uncharted waters
Match Group — the owner of Tinder, Hinge, and some forty other dating apps — hosted its first ever investor day in December. The tl;dr was that AI is going to save the online dating industry, and this ...
Ruchir Sharma: top 10 trends for 2025
Projections about the coming year assume market shifts will be dictated by Donald Trump. But the global economy is unlikely to revolve around the US ...
Finland fuels children’s future with financial literacy and food
Finland aims to achieve the best financial literacy in the world by 2030, and projects such as Yrityskylä are a big part of the push. Already in 2018, Finland placed second financial literacy at ...
The infighting propelling Austria’s far right to power
Austria’s mainstream political groups promised to freeze the far-right Freedom party out of power after it won parliamentary elections last autumn. But the collapse of their coalition talks has put ...
House museums #98: Apsley House, London
The former home of the 1st Duke of Wellington and vanquisher of Napoleon still houses a preponderance of objects relating to the French emperor ...
Why people are rejecting shoelaces
Yet that recurring question of whether we are seeing the death (or at least, the demise) of shoelaces reached a new peak recently, after I wear-tested a pair of On’s brand new marathon shoes, which ...
What’s next for US Steel?
Eurozone economists warn the European Central Bank has been too slow to cut interest rates, and US Steel faces a bleak outlook after President Biden’s decision to block its sale. UK businesses plan ...
Nan Goldin as she was meant to be seen
Billed as the first exhibition to frame Goldin as a filmmaker, it focuses exclusively on six slideshows. In the 1970s and early 1980s the artist projected her photographs as montages in nightclubs to ...
World Cup award adds pressure to Saudi Arabia’s construction challenge
Saudi Arabia has launched real estate and infrastructure projects worth $1.3tn since Vision 2030 was unveiled in 2016, according to estimates by consultancy Knight Frank. These projects, such as the ...