The arrival of Black Friday on these shores can be blamed on Amazon and Walmart, former owner of Asda supermarkets, who started the trend a decade ago. But the brands taking part in this annual ...

Abu Dhabi’s state energy company floated its fuel distribution unit in 2017, raising about $850mn. Dubai’s state utility company raised $6.1bn in 2022, and state parking group Parkin raised $429mn ...

Deck your halls – and your tables. Tiffany & Co has reprised its “Comtesse de Grignan” pattern from 1961, which was named for the lavender fields in the Grignan commune of south-eastern France, in a ...

Owning a US bank is hard — deliberately so. A long-standing belief that commerce and banking are best kept separate has spawned rules and hurdles that effectively prevent Walmart, Google or Tesla from ...

More work is needed to tackle risks outside the banking sector, according to a Bank of England study which found that a market crisis would be amplified by fire sales of assets by pension funds, hedge ...

Households in the Eurozone are not spending enough. Private consumption has repeatedly undershot European Central Bank ...

Likely withdrawal of troops marks further retrenchment of French role in fighting Islamist insurgents in Sahel ...

Duncan Wanblad’s work may make Anglo more attractive to a potential suitor — investors are better off, regardless ...

Deflation fuels ‘inexorable’ slide in China’s long-term sovereign bond yields below Japan’s for the first time ...

France’s financial markets are having a rough week. The country’s sovereign bond market in particular, is reeling with ten-year borrowing costs briefly hitting highs not seen since the 2012 Eurozone ...

The best book I’ve read in the past year is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, a really fascinating ...

Canadian rival’s filing claims record label paid radio stations and streamers to boost popularity of US rapper’s ‘Not Like Us ...