Days earlier QatarEnergy, which produces a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas (LNG), shut down its production and ...

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Software still matters. But as it becomes commoditised, economic power is flowing back to the physical layer of the economy. Control over energy, materials, infrastructure, robotics and industrial ...

More than a quarter of global seaborne oil exports pass through the waterway. Unlike the Suez Canal, which has also been heavily disrupted by conflict, ships transporting fuel from the Gulf cannot ...

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Donald Trump faces limited options to contain oil prices as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz traps 15m barrels per day, with strategic reserves and escorts offering partial relief.

In short, a world in turmoil is terrible for India. That is to the country’s credit. It has plans to become a prosperous, advanced economy that chaos would derail. For reasons of pride and propaganda, ...

The country spends some $5trn a year on health care, about a fifth of its GDP and twice as much per person as its rich-world peers. Treatment is world-class but expensive; a third of adults say they ...

The downside of the broader overlap between growth and quality stocks arises because much of a growth stock’s value comes from the far higher earnings investors expect of it in the distant future.

Now those gains are slipping away. A CNN poll found that in the year to February Mr Trump’s approval rating among Latinos nationwide fell from 41% to 22%. Another poll, from Pew in November, shows ...

Mr Kiley’s decision will reduce to 217 the number of  Republicans in the House of Representatives, just three more than the Democrats’ contingent, but he will continue to caucus with his former party.

Before the war the Lviv Quarter housing development was an attractive investment, with penthouse flats offering panoramic views of Kyiv’s historic Podil district and the Dnieper river. Now it is ...