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Activist investors give Japan a wake-up call
The UK’s financial watchdog has failed to remove illegal crypto adverts, and in Japan, shareholder activists are waking companies up from decades of …
1 year ago
Biden’s departing gift to Ukraine
US stocks dropped for the second straight trading session, the Biden administration said it will unleash almost $6bn in additional aid to Ukraine, an…
1 year ago
Should banks foot the bill for cyber scams?
Defaults on US credit card loans have hit the highest level since the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and as payment fraud rises, banks and tech c…
1 year ago
Swamp Notes: Listener mailbag, the election and 2025
Are the Democrats doomed? Which world leaders are happiest to see Trump back in the White House? And why are investors flooding into American stocks?…
1 year ago
Why Microsoft needs nuclear energy
A number of cryptocurrency-focused hedge funds are outpacing their rivals, the Bank of England holds interest rates at 4.75 per cent, and Microsoft h…
1 year ago
What 2024 taught central bankers
The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by a quarter-point but signals a slower pace of easing, and we look back at what central banks learned in 202…
1 year ago
Javier Milei scores Argentina economy win
Argentina emerged from a severe recession in the third quarter, Microsoft buys twice as many of Nvidia’s chips as any of its largest rivals, KPMG nar…
1 year ago
AI investors look beyond chips
Japan’s SoftBank unveils $100bn US investment plans, fervour around Nvidia cools as investors look to AI’s next winners, and Europe launches its most…
1 year ago
Arm and Qualcomm head to court
Germany’s Olaf Scholz is expected to lose a confidence vote in parliament on Monday, and Arm and Qualcomm’s bitter legal feud over chip design licens…
1 year, 1 month ago
Swamp Notes: Europe in the age of America First
Europe has been able to predictably lean on the US for decades. But Donald Trump used tariffs and other economic threats to test those assumptions in…
1 year, 1 month ago