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

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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 ...

The standing ovation lasted for more than ten minutes. “The Apprentice”, a dramatisation of the early career of Donald Trump, had one of the buzziest premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in May, with ...

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 ...

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 new head of Iran’s Supreme National ‌Security Council said the Strait of Hormuz would not reopen until America “changes ...

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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The earthquake was as powerful as the deadly pair that devastated Venezuela in June. But it occurred about ten times deeper ...

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