Brookfield Asset Management is in talks to acquire a US landlord of manufactured homes from Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC for more than $10bn in one of the largest property takeovers since ...

In the August 17 edition of this newsletter I outlined how the west got hooked on economic support. This week I explain how it got submerged under an ever-growing heap of red tape too. In the US, ...

Donald Trump’s punitive 50 per cent tariffs on India are a wake-up call for the nation of nearly 1.5bn. The high import duties, which the US president imposed on August 27 as punishment for the ...

If the storytelling in “She Moved Through the Fair” (also known as “She Moves Through the Fair”) is hard to pin down, so too are its origins. The lyrics were first published by the musicologist ...

On the face of it, that backs up AB Foods boss George Weston’s expectation that Primark’s UK same-store sales will be flat in the current quarter. Its shares tumbled 13 per cent on Wednesday, for ...

Since Macron entered the Élysée in 2017 promising to cut taxes, boost growth and shrink the state, public spending has climbed — and so has France’s debt-to-GDP ratio, now trailing only Greece and ...

Chief executive of Dutch chocolate maker believes chasing market share through low prices is counter-productive ...

But with 80 per cent of the annual deer cull carried out mainly by estates, charities and individuals, the natural environment bill is proposing tighter regulation via mandates for landowners to cull ...

AI-powered drone swarms are set to transform the battlefield, with companies launching cutting edge software set to make unmanned weapon attacks which overwhelm enemy defences more deadly. In this ...

Quantum computing exploits the physics of subatomic particles to perform functions beyond the capabilities of existing computers. Australia’s prominent role in its development has been built on top of ...

Airport operator Aena and Ryanair, Europe’s biggest airline, are locked in an escalating public row over what the carrier calls “excessive” fees, which it says have forced it to cut 2mn seats on ...

By holding up a gas deal and accusing Egypt of violations in Sinai, Netanyahu is endangering a vital peace treaty ...