Gains from scrapping two-child benefit limit and reforming tax on buying shares would outweigh any electoral hit ...

US semiconductor group Qualcomm has agreed a $2.4bn deal to buy chip designer Alphawave, marking the latest tech company ...

The Israeli navy intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship on Monday and detained its high-profile passengers, including activist ...

The son of Jimmy Lai has accused Sir Keir Starmer’s UK government of showing “weakness” towards China in the face of the ...

WPP chief executive Mark Read is standing down from the UK’s largest advertising group as it struggles with a near five-year low in its share price and industry-wide upheaval caused by artificial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...