American stocks began the year as the envy of the world. Their prices rose by 26% in 2023 and 23% in 2024, compared with 14% ...
You might think that short-sellers like Mr Chanos, who bet on prices falling rather than rising, are looking forward to a ...
The secret to its rapid transit is in its chemistry. Ethanol, to give booze its proper name, is a tiny, agile molecule. It ...
When people in China talk about the “two meetings”, they mean the annual gatherings of the country’s legislature and its advisory body in March. But another pair of meetings this month could prove ...
CHINESE-BORN brainiacs have been at the forefront of innovation in America. Yang Chen-Ning, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist who died in October, was one such. But a mixture of pushes (such as the ...
Yet a partial thaw is unfolding. “We face tremendous cyber-attacks on a daily basis,” says an official in Delhi. “But we also ...
China’s diplomatic anger obeys a law of conservation: the total quantity remains constant, but the targets change. Some countries, notably Canada and South Korea, have recently emerged from China’s ...
Editor’s note: On December 5th Netflix agreed to buy the studios and streaming services of Warner Bros Discovery in a deal worth $83bn. OWING TO POPULAR demand from hubristic chief executives, “merger ...
Ray Dalio spied the dotcom bubble early. “We’re approaching a blow-off phase of the US stockmarket,” said the founder of Bridgewater, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds. Peter Lynch, the ...
New Zealand compares well on global measures of freedom, happiness and transparency. But rankings in some important areas, ...
The last time people cared what Canada thought of China was half a century ago. Fighting in Vietnam, America did not want Canada to recognise “Red China”, in preference to Taiwan. But Canada saw ...
Ask a European banker how to reinvigorate their continent’s capital markets, and there is a good chance they will start enthusing about Sweden. That might seem surprising, since during the post-Brexit ...