2026-04-28 12:05:25
At the risk of overstating, the similarities are getting too big to ignore.
2026-04-28 12:00:21
European stocks started the year much stronger than their US peers but the tantalizing prospect of the euro area clawing back some of its persistent gap in earnings growth, and the higher company valuations that come with it, looks to have slipped through its grasp again.
2026-04-28 12:00:20
A war in the Middle East probably wasn’t what Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney had in mind in Davos earlier this year, when he made a pitch for the world’s so-called middle powers to join together in a world defined by increasingly aggressive military juggernauts.
2026-04-28 12:00:18
It’s 250 years since the US dumped George III, but as his most recent successor celebrates America’s Semiquincentennial in Washington DC it seems royalty is back in vogue. Monarchy-loving Donald Trump is so excited at hosting King Charles III and Queen Camilla, he’s predicting their three-day junket will “absolutely” help repair the tattered special relationship, which has been plunged into the deep freeze because of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s refusal to join in the president’s Iran folly.
2026-04-28 11:00:18
Last year’s deal to slash debt at Patrick Drahi’s French telecoms empire followed a fraught and protracted negotiation between the tycoon and his hedge-fund frenemies. With Altice France SA now set to be sold in transactions that may fetch €24 billion ($28 billion), the true economics of that restructuring are being revealed. Drahi — of course — emerges as the winner.
2026-04-28 08:00:52
It has been almost two decades since the late Shinzo Abe stood in India’s parliament and told the assembled legislators that “it is incumbent upon us two democracies, Japan and India, to carry out the pursuit of freedom and prosperity in the region.” Abe defined their task as protecting the freedom of navigation in what he was the first to call the Indo-Pacific. That task has gotten only more urgent as the US withdraws — or, more recently, imposes blockades on crucial straits — and China pushes
