2025-10-09 14:25:21
For those concerned with financial stability, HSBC Holdings Plc. is doing the right thing by taking its Hong Kong subsidiary private. But its shareholders do not like it.
2025-10-09 12:00:21
Connecting the dots shows deepening pessimism about higher inflation.
2025-10-09 12:00:12
The latest moves by European companies to list in the US are more radical than meets the eye. AstraZeneca Plc and TotalEnergies SE want to upgrade their existing US equity offering to stock from from quasi stock — a well-trodden path. But as ever, the devil is in the detail.
2025-10-09 11:30:07
The conventional wisdom says liquified natural gas is the future of energy — bridging the gap between the world abandoning fossil fuels and renewable supplies coming online. But that rosy outlook faces a reckoning. LNG is threatened by a pincer movement involving, ironically, the two old and new sources it’s supposed to bridge: coal and solar.
2025-10-09 11:00:10
As a retired admiral and former supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, I was thrilled when Sweden and Finland joined the alliance. My first thought was about the vast coastline the two Nordic states provided, essentially turning the Baltic Sea has into a “NATO lake.”
2025-10-09 11:00:07
A recent campaign video for the Czech Motorists Party opens in an auto-repair shop. A female driver throws her keys to a ripped, square-jawed mechanic, who summons his team with a nod. Sparks fly, carburetors change hands and a rock groove kicks in as the head grease monkey — played by car enthusiast and party figurehead Filip Turek — ticks off the party’s priorities: no to the Green Deal, yes to supporting the car industry.
