Also the Man City charges, cotton trade prints and investment bank apprenticeship.

Also the Man City charges, cotton trade prints and investment bank apprenticeship.

Higher-for-longer interest rates are forcing buyout firms to face facts. Struggling since 2023 to sell companies purchased in the long decade of ultra-cheap debt before the Covid pandemic, they’ve tri...

Has the stock market bubble quietly burst already? Even though the S&P 500 Index has mostly treaded water for the past four months, Wall Street analysts have continued to boost their earnings esti...

Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...

Manchester City has been found guilty of systematically breaking Premier League rules for almost a decade, in a watershed for the world’s richest football competition. The verdicts taint the legacy of...

Has the stock market bubble quietly burst already? Even though the S&P 500 Index has mostly treaded water for the past four months, Wall Street analysts have continued to boost their earnings esti...

I don’t know who will win the US-Iran war. But if you ask me who’s prevailing in the battle over the Strait of Hormuz, it’s clear US President Donald Trump has the advantage. As much as Tehran says th...

Higher-for-longer interest rates are forcing buyout firms to face facts. Struggling since 2023 to sell companies purchased in the long decade of ultra-cheap debt before the Covid pandemic, they’ve tried to placate investors with clever financial engineering to help keep some money turning over. But after several false dawns for a return to low rates, the classic private-equity leveraged deals industry is moving into the final stage of grief over its prospects: acceptance.

At an intersection near our house in Dallas, one home has a large Talarico sign in the front yard. The home directly across the street has a large Paxton sign. That’s what it’s like down here one month before Election Day. The candidates are neck-and-neck. Votes are split across streets and among families.

Banks in the US have plenty to celebrate these days, from record profits and higher stock prices to a strong economy and easier regulation. One thing they don’t need is an added discount on their deposit insurance — a crucial buffer that should be reinforced when times are good.

Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an AI system.

In March 1836, businessman and former New York City Mayor Philip Hone noted in his diary that he had sold his house on Broadway across from City Hall Park for $60,000 ($2.2 million in current dollars) with the buyer planning to convert it into shops and a hotel. “Almost everybody down-town is in the same predicament, for all the dwellinghouses are to be converted into stores,” Hone wrote. “We are tempted with prices so exorbitantly high that none can resist.”

These are the best of times for Americans — at least economically and at least on paper (in the metaphorical sense of course, since no one uses paper anymore). We’ve never been richer or more prosperous as a nation. Living standards and life expectancy are at all-time highs. Yet, it feels like the economy is broken.

The shifts in bond investors’ sentiment have created a much more difficult environment for Europe’s governments and companies.

Manchester City has been found guilty of systematically breaking Premier League rules for almost a decade, in a watershed for the world’s richest football competition. The verdicts taint the legacy of England’s most successful club over the past 15 years, and by extension the sport’s reputation.

I don’t know who will win the US-Iran war. But if you ask me who’s prevailing in the battle over the Strait of Hormuz, it’s clear US President Donald Trump has the advantage. As much as Tehran says the opposite, the strait is effectively wide open. Crude oil exports from regional US allies via the waterway, plus bypass routes, have risen to about 80% of prewar levels. Iran, meanwhile, has seen its own oil exports plunge to zero.

Ulf Kristersson’s Moderates, who’ve spent four years leading Sweden’s governing coalition, did what voters wanted. The center-right party got growth going: It’s expected to be 2.5% for 2026 and 2027, remarkable for a European nation. Inflation is 0.3%, and — of greater importance to plenty of Swedes — asylum applications this year will be the lowest since 1985. They’ve even started building nuclear power plants again.

Nobody will be surprised if within the next five to 10 years India displaces the US as the world’s second-largest solar grid after China. But if its ambition is to become the world’s factory — or host AI workloads for Western tech giants — the power play around energy must stop.

“This is the deal,” Andy Burnham declared as he used his first speech to the Labour Party annual conference as prime minister to promise a new national-care system for the UK funded by scrapping the “triple lock” pension ratchet. His “deal,” of course, went much further than just facing down retirees. He grabbed the moment to make the intellectual and moral case for a more expansive state.

Also agentic bank runs, 351 ETFs and abandoned Nvidia options.

Imagine a tax that people just love to pay.

President Donald Trump has vowed to return America’s declining coal industry to its glory days. But the only real revival of trying to put this polluting fuel back at its peak is its ability to destro...

With seconds remaining in the first half of her professional playoff debut on Sunday, Olivia Miles shook off a slow start and drilled a three-pointer, putting the Minnesota Lynx ahead of the New York Liberty by four.

Apart from being Brazil’s most popular football clubs, Flamengo, Corinthians and Palmeiras have one other thing in common: All three signed sponsorship deals with Chinese carmakers this year.

If this is the moment when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. begins its leadership succession from David Solomon to John Waldron, the transition should be as seamless as a DJ splicing cool Balearic beats. Any discord could come from power struggles at the level below chief executive officer, where senior bankers will jostle for positions of long-term influence.

The Trump administration’s new fuel-economy standards hew to Homer Simpson’s approach to tough tasks or failure: “Never try.” They are simultaneously a gift for US automakers and an act of sabotage to...

President Donald Trump has vowed to return America’s declining coal industry to its glory days. But the only real revival of trying to put this polluting fuel back at its peak is its ability to destroy the health of its miners.

Mike Rogers is a promising Senate candidate with a sterling resume who could upset Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in swing-state Michigan during an otherwise discouraging midterm election cycle for the Republican Party. His potentially fatal mistake? A cautious, outdated campaign strategy that minimizes contact with voters and his opponent.

Apart from being Brazil’s most popular football clubs, Flamengo, Corinthians and Palmeiras have one other thing in common: All three signed sponsorship deals with Chinese carmakers this year.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan, has a simple pitch to voters. Imagine, he says, a health-insurance plan with “no premium, no copay, no deductible — just healthcare when you need it.” El-Sayed and other proponents call the idea Medicare for All.

The cavalry has arrived for a panicking GOP in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign ads. The GOP is set to spend at least $888 million on advertising compared to $666 million by Democrats. Republicans hope the massive expenditure, which spans official committees and outside groups, can counter a sour national mood driven by high prices for basic goods.

The Trump administration’s new fuel-economy standards hew to Homer Simpson’s approach to tough tasks or failure: “Never try.” They are simultaneously a gift for US automakers and an act of sabotage toward them. The biggest of these, General Motors Co., captures this double-edged nature quite neatly in its share price.

Starting Tuesday, OpenAI will convene its annual developer conference. The timing isn’t ideal.

A negative surprise in upcoming US data might be the only thing to arrest bonds’ slide.

The last time I was in Drumcree, the Northern Ireland tinderbox where Catholic residents are engaged in a standoff with Orange Order marchers, I was hit on the leg by a golf ball. It was launched at me by rioters as the police blocked unionists from parading down the Garvaghy Road, a pro-Irish nationalist enclave of largely Protestant Portadown.

A chance was missed last week to put the standoff between the US and Iran on a path toward settlement rather than escalation: Tehran made an offer and Donald Trump refused it. The attempt failed because neither was ready to compromise, and if that’s the end of the matter one side will have overplayed its hand. The question is which — and that does not have a simple answer.

Sports have grown more complicated with the advent of fantasy football and gambling.

What could 2026 do to make the fossil fuel supply crisis emanating from the Persian Gulf just a little bit worse? How about a whole separate fossil fuel supply crisis on the other side of the world? That’s what the bone-dry weather brought by the current super-El Nino is incubating.

South Korea’s remarkable economic boom can run for a while yet, if the central bank has any say in the matter. Officials do have their work cut out managing the spillovers, but restraint may prove to be the most courageous course of action.

Also Nvidia’s buyback, Automattic intrigue and agentic sports betting.

Music fans and journalists who spent the last few months looking for the song of the summer faced a plot twist fit for Hollywood: The winner was a single released last October. Billboard announced last week that Ella Langley’s Choosin’ Texas had secured the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 chart for the 23rd week, breaking the record held by Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You.

Employer-sponsored health insurance is rapidly deteriorating. In 2027, premiums are expected to see their largest single-year increase in two decades, jumping 11% and closing in on a nearly five-fold increase this century. The amount workers pay for their portion today would have covered the entire premium in 2000.

The most important measure to watch in the campaign’s final weeks is how Democratic candidates are performing among voters who disapprove of President Donald Trump.

A recent New York Times investigation found that sports betting company DraftKings Inc. built a machine-learning model that scored customers by how much they would lose for each free bet or bonus they received. The data analyst assigned to test the model began to worry that many of the customers ranked highest were prone to addiction. By financial logic, the analyst said, “the best investment would be a problem gambler.”

The confusion surrounding a proposed civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia hasn’t exactly disappeared: The White House is still claiming it depends on the country normalizing relations with Israel, even if that’s not part of the written agreement. At least Congress now has the text for review. Having seen its flaws, legislators should demand changes.

The most bothersome aspect of the warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity is that there are few details about how a rogue computer model could actually accomplish it.