Long-term investors turn to shipping as Middle East conflict boosts returns
Asset managers report interest from institutional investors seeking exposure to hard assets
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German gunmaker with loaded history sets sights on British army’s next rifle
Heckler & Koch faces competition from global defence companies to replace the SA80 service rifle
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Banks and insurers brace for biggest German pension upheaval in 20 years
‘One of the sacred cows has been slaughtered’ with reforms to the system that will funnel billions of euros into…
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Taliban makes overtures to Trump administration over mineral deals
Afghanistan’s Islamist regime seeks sanctions relief and release of frozen assets five years after return to power
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Alejandro Betancourt: the man who would be Trump’s ‘viceroy’ in Venezuela
US has turned to wily and divisive insider to help it develop the country’s oil reserves
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Ukraine’s ex-defence minister touts ‘new history’ in war against Russia with planned tech fund
Mykhailo Fedorov seeks western capital to build and manage weapons development companies he says will help Kyiv resist…
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Big Tech profits get $160bn boost from gains on stakes in other AI companies
Analysts say large paper windfalls on investments in OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX have muddied the tech sector’s…
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Nepal rescue effort intensifies with more than 3,000 missing
Authorities warn rising water levels could complicate recoveries as the number of confirmed deaths reaches almost 800
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Americans feel they have lost their agency
People increasingly blame large corporations for the sense that they have ever less control over their own lives
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Iceland rejects talks on EU entry
‘No’ vote prevails in knife-edge referendum prompted by Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland
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Controversial Venezuelan executive courts investors after Trump oil deal
Alejandro Betancourt is the US’s primary partner in a company that will control more than 65bn barrels of oil reserves
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Friends with fiscal benefits
Cross-class friendships appear to be one of the strongest predictors of upward mobility for people in low…
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‘New York loves Canada’: US cities want their Canadian tourists back
American tourism businesses try to overcome cross-border travel boycott over Trump administration’s hostility to its…
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Rising bond yields add tens of billions to G7 countries’ debt costs
World’s biggest developed economies face higher financing costs since start of US-Iran war, weighing on public finances
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Summer might be ending, but we can hold on to some of its magic
It offers not the opportunity to do nothing but to have the time to do things slowly
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Incoming Swiss banking chief warns against regulatory over-reach
Comments from chief executive of EFG International signal how opposition to new rules extends across the industry
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Your body is not a machine
Mechanical metaphors are useful, but such reductionism is no guide to life
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‘SmashCos’: Europe’s oil majors create new generation of independent companies
Jointly owned independent oil and gas producers are an increasingly important part of the biggest players’ strategies
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EU to help tourism hotspots crack down on Airbnb-style holiday rentals
Measures imposed on short-term lets by cities such as Florence often result in drawn-out legal battles
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The Dutch city where Europe’s electricity grid crunch hits home
Households and businesses in Utrecht face strict limits on power use to avoid outages
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Victims’ families and campaigners seek answers over Air India crash
Indian investigators are expected within weeks to issue final report into disaster that killed 260 people
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US oil deal denounced by both sides of Venezuelan politics
Hardliners cast agreement with Trump as looting and betrayal while opposition decries Washington’s meddling in country
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Warsh charts a forward-looking path for the Fed at Jackson Hole
This might be remembered as a moment when the central bank switched approach
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Trump says US to take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil
The president says the countries’ joint venture will lower petrol prices for Americans
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Warsh puts Fed on collision course with Trump ahead of midterms
US central bank chair’s Jackson Hole hint that rates may rise runs counter to the reduction in borrowing costs the US…
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Dozens killed in Russian strike on ammunition depot near Kyiv
Lengthy air raids by Moscow’s jet-powered drones have triggered 27 alerts since Thursday in one of the longest attacks…
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Swiss wealth managers urge delay to ownership register after Liechtenstein hack
Bankers also raised cyber security concerns over list of ultimate owners of more than 500,000 companies and other…
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US campaign to isolate Iran closes in on Dubai
Gulf city has for decades served as an offshore hub for Iranian financial services, trade and access to global markets…
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What the Indiana state fair reveals about Trump’s America
Will the most ornery state in the conservative Midwest finally reject his politics?
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Risk of a new age of financial repression is rising
The idea of pushing US government bonds down the throats of investors is being taken increasingly seriously
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Glencore threatened with $1.4bn lawsuit from embattled trader Radiant
Singapore-based iron ore company Radiant has been battling liquidity squeeze
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Zero-sum thinking will fuel resentment and scarcity
The assumption that one group must lose for another to gain has become worryingly widespread
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Airbus seeks US space unit sale as it shifts to European-built satellites
Potential disposal comes after company announced deal with Leonardo and Thales
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Nasa to launch $4.3bn space telescope to scan universe
Roman Space Telescope is expected to help explain dark matter while discovering thousands of planets beyond our solar…
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