News

Taylor Swift buys rights to her first six albums
Taylor Swift has bought the original recordings of her first six albums from investment group Shamrock Capital, ending a years-long saga that spurred her to re-record her old work and elevated her ...
The fate of Gaza: ‘It all depends on Trump’
Heavy casualties and the risk of widespread starvation have led to new pressure on Israel to halt its offensive. But US influence will be decisive ...
Ukraine to miss payment on GDP-linked debt
The June payment was linked to Ukraine’s 2023 GDP growth of 5.3 per cent that came off a 30 per cent drop following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Future payments are due annually in ...
Britain’s bank bailouts: an epic saga without a happy ending
After nearly 17 years, the UK government has finally sold its last shares in NatWest, formerly known as Royal Bank of Scotland. It marks the end of the most visible and enduring legacy of the 2008 ...
NatWest returns to full private ownership 17 years after UK bailout
The UK government has sold the last of its stake in NatWest, returning the bank fully to private hands 17 years after its ...
Why doesn’t government work in the US?
The reasons for this failure have been clearly outlined in Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s bestselling book Abundance, as ...
US stock rally faces some stiff tests
US retail investors are, it seems, all in. They were among the first to buy the dip in US stocks straight after the “liberation day” tariffs shock, and they never looked back. The rewards heading ...
Directors’ Deals: Vodafone’s Mucic bets on German rebound
Still, it’s obviously a good time to make hay, so the managing director of the group’s building division, Ian Jubb, recently benefited to the tune of £307,351 from the sale of 75,000 shares in ...
Opinion
America’s courts versus Donald Trump
Donald Trump has suffered plenty of legal setbacks in his second term, but none quite like this one. The US Court of International Trade’s ruling this week that the president misapplied emergency ...
‘Unearthed’ at the British Library is unhistorical — but not uninteresting
This celebration of gardening in the UK is an entertaining but puzzlingly limited survey that omits more than it includes ...
How ETFs can open the door for crypto investors
Many would-be investors perceive volatility as a troubling feature of cryptocurrencies. Could ETFs (exchange-traded funds) provide a more accessible entry point? For newcomers, the cryptocurrency ...
Entire Gaza population at risk of famine, says UN
Gaza’s entire population is at risk of famine, the UN has said, as the rollout of a controversial US and Israeli-backed aid ...