In today’s newsletter, we take a look at the performance of the banking sector and what that says about the economy. Plus, India is alarmed by China’s plans to build the world’s largest dam in Tibet.

Further deployment of EV infrastructure should drive down costs and support accessibility, particularly with healthy ...

Let’s be clear — stronger rights at work can drive up labour market participation, improve health, raise productivity and boost demand. They can give people the higher living standards and secure ...

Average advertised cost of properties beyond the UK capital drop 0.2% in the fourth quarter, according to Rightmove ...

London-listed oil major Shell announced a further $3.5bn of share buybacks in October, while HSBC announced a $3bn buyback in ...

Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports to start at 2.5 per cent ...

A powerful king decided he wanted to make a Machine God that would be omniscient and omnipotent. After lots of ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Vanke’s crisis reignite fears for China’s property sector, and Tesla sues EU over tariffs on EVs from China ...

Republican Senators Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are considered obvious candidates to oppose Kennedy’s ...

Opening of military corridor allows hundreds of thousands to start returning home, finding devastation along the way ...

And bang in the middle of Paris, in the 17th-century courtyard of the Louvre, Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director Pharrell Williams began the week by studding the catwalk of the Vuitton show with ...

In the most extreme scenario, global warming would lead to 2.3mn additional temperature-related deaths, mostly in southern European cities such as Athens, Madrid and Rome. But those fatalities could ...