T HE GREAT economic surprise of the Iran war has been that oil prices have stayed relatively contained even with the Strait ...

Shareholders of Hugo Boss, Germany’s biggest luxury fashion firm, must decide whether to accept a takeover offer from Mike ...

Donald Trump insisted America has “total control” of the waterway, but Iran claims it will remain shut until America accepts its conditions for ending the war, including the easing of economic ...

Russian drones caused a fire and damage at Izmail, a grain export hub and Ukraine’s largest Danube port. The attack follows a big Ukrainian strike on Novorossiysk, one of Russia’s most strategically ...

A lmost every summer since 1549, a group of men from the Isle of Lewis sailed to an uninhabited islet in the North Atlantic ...

The Intercept, a news site, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, an advocacy group, sued Mr Trump over a plan to sell early access to his market-moving social-media posts for up to $100,000 a ...

AMERICA’S TREASURY secretary, Scott Bessent, is used to making audacious bets against central banks. He once worked for Soros Fund Management, the hedge fund famous for “breaking” the Bank of England ...

For years low valuations and lower liquidity have led more firms to delist from the Singapore Exchange ( SGX) than to list there. Local successes, such as Sea Group, a games-to-groceries digital giant ...

The West’s Afghanistan strategy has failed. In 2021, America withdrew from the country, ending two decades of fighting and ...

S oon after becoming China’s prime minister in 1998 Zhu Rongji famously declared that he had ordered 100 coffins — 99 for corrupt officials and one for himself. In his hatred of bureaucratic graft, ...

Yet merrily Maersk sails along. The firm reports second-quarter results on Thursday, and analysts expect an 11% year-on-year increase in revenue, to $14.6bn. In June it upgraded its guidance, going ...

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