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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 ...

• JAPAN'S prime minister, Shinzo Abe, makes an official trip to America. His predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, had a sour relationship with China and a sweet one with America, but Mr Abe appears, at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Talk to anyone other than oil traders, though, and nervousness persists, not least because Mr Trump cannot end hostilities alone, even if he was serious about doing so. The boss of Saudi Aramco, the ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Trophy husbands” seem to be rarer than excitable media reports sometimes suggest. Our data show that as women earn more, they tend to choose partners closer to their own age. Only one in five ...

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 ...

Britain once led the world in precision timekeeping; its inventions included the marine chronometer. But it never dominated the mass production of wristwatches, and by the 1970s the last large factory ...