New titans of Wall Street: How trading firms stole a march on big banks
Handful of secretive businesses including Jane Street and Citadel Securities have seized market share from the old guard ...
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund backs nuclear fuel start-up
Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, is backing a nuclear start-up aiming ...
London’s bistro boom
A new wave of restaurants is reigniting the capital’s love affair with classic French food. Here are six of the most magnifiques ...
Marine Le Pen goes on trial over EU expenses scandal
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen goes on trial on Monday for allegedly embezzling EU funds, in a politically charged case that could lead to fines and a ban from elected office.
Beijing pledges further boosts to ETF industry
Over the past 12 months, China’s “national team” of sovereign wealth funds, most prominently Central Huijin Investment, have ploughed billions of renminbi into broad-based ETF tracking the CSI 300 ...
How to cut government debt, with Robin Wigglesworth
Jamaica’s economy struggled for decades, and at one point it had amassed debts worth more than 140 per cent of GDP. Even the IMF wouldn’t return its calls. But somehow, in the 2010s, it managed to ...