Harry Kane’s England heroics show the value of having one true superstar

After England snatched the win 2-1, thanks inevitably to Harry Kane, the familiar tune of “Football’s Coming Home” boomed through the stadium’s loudspeakers. That felt very premature. Though England ...

World Cup tickets and crypto sales: five things we learnt from Donald Trump’s financial disclosure

The US president earned more than $1bn from digital currency interests as well as real estate and stock trades ...

CEOs beware — here comes the algo tone police

All modern CEOs know it: you’ve got to be careful about what you say on earnings calls. Even a few too many “buts” can signal ...

US opts not to renew Trump’s trade deal with Mexico and Canada

The Trump administration will not renew its 2020 trade deal with Canada and Mexico, casting new doubt on the future of an agreement that had been a bedrock of commerce between the US and its ...

Zelenskyy urges EU to sanction Russian-owned alumina plant in Ireland

Ireland will ensure that metal from a Russian-owned alumina smelter does not “support the Russian war machine”, its prime minister promised after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the EU ...

Saks’ retail rebirth depends more on Gucci than Wall Street

Debt was of course a big part of Saks’ problem — the group went into bankruptcy owing more than $3bn — but it wasn’t just borrowing that pushed Saks under. Instead, court filings show that its ...
Opinion

Supreme Court checks Trump, but empowers the presidency

There is much to be relieved about in the US Supreme Court term that ended this week. Chief Justice John Roberts marshalled a shifting coalition of justices to block President Don ...

Italian tech group Bending Spoons jumps on Nasdaq debut

Acquisitive owner of Vimeo, AOL and Eventbrite raises $1.68bn in one of Europe’s biggest technology IPOs this year ...

Kevin Warsh vows ‘no changes’ to Fed independence

New chair tells central bankers price stability will be focus regardless of potential pressure from White House ...

Through saints and symbolic visits, Pope Leo gets his message across

Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born Catholic spiritual leader, declined an invitation from the White House — hand-delivered by vice-president JD Vance — to visit the land of his birth for the milestone ...

Burnham should beware uncanny echoes of the 1930s on defence

The 2020s are not the 1930s and, for all his aggression, Putin is not Hitler. The parallels are no less uncomfortable for that. Now, as then, Europe’s democracies are trapped in economic stagnation ...

Kevin Warsh confident AI will generate ‘productivity-based growth’

Fed chair Kevin Warsh continued to steer clear of any forward guidance on rates at the Sintra Forum in Portugal, but noted that inflation risks, volatility, yields and inflation expectations had all ...