A final factor is partisanship. TD Cowen created a breakdown of Tesla’s US sales by each counties’ political leanings. Since the Trump-Musk partnership started, sales in red counties have picked up ...

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It’s been a long six days since we last wrote about the BoE’s efforts to whittle down the massive pile of gilts brought into the Asset Purchase Facility by quantitative easing. So let’s go again. If ...

Context: Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and after failing in its lightning assault on Kyiv, has fought a gruelling war of attrition in the country’s east. US President Donald Trump vowed to ...

The move away from US assets has pushed up European markets at the expense of their US counterparts and has been signalled by surveys of big institutional investors’ allocation decisions. A poll of ...

Melting ice could make shorter transits between Asia and Europe a reality but there are economic and geopolitical risks ...

Seaweed diversity and biomass are declining in many regions around the world, says Jason Hall-Spencer, professor of marine biology at Plymouth university. His recent study with colleagues in China ...

Multilateral financial institutions have issued about $2bn worth of blue bonds to date, according to S&P Global Ratings. The World Bank Group and the Inter-American Development Bank have both issued a ...

By calling on troops to suppress protests in Los Angeles on Sunday, Donald Trump has shown he is willing to put the country on a war footing — and test the boundaries of executive power — to achieve ...

Syria is preparing to rejoin the international banking system, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing ...

There are two distinct sets of problems with the pension system of today. The first is that current and future pensioners now ...

Japanese materials and equipment suppliers, such as JSR, Advantest and Tokyo Electron, are indispensable cogs in the semiconductor supply chain. Deep inside data centres, smartphones and aeroplanes, ...