Europe’s IPO boom, Bitcoin hits new record, China’s corn spree
Europe’s IPO market is off to its strongest start in five years thanks to a flurry of tech and ecommerce listings, Disney continues to attract subscribers to its streaming service, and China’s massive...
12 Feb 202110min
Amsterdam becomes Europe’s trading hub, AstraZeneca vaccine to help poor countries, Italy’s recovery fund
Amsterdam surpassed London as Europe’s largest share trading centre last month, Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell has pledged to keep monetary policy loose to support the struggling US labour market...
11 Feb 20218min
Twitter warns of slowing growth, investors tell Amazon to stop meddling in union vote, US-China investment flows
Twitter’s user growth fell short of expectations for the second quarter in a row, more than 70 investors call on Amazon to stop interfering with a unionisation effort, and Huawei asks a US court to ov...
10 Feb 202110min
EU wants Big Tech to pay for news, Tesla’s bitcoin investment, SoftBank Vision Fund makes big gains
EU lawmakers want to force Big Tech companies to pay for news, echoing a similar move in Australia, Tesla’s $1.5bn investment in bitcoin sends the cryptocurrency to record highs, and oil hits $60 a ba...
9 Feb 20218min
TikTok ecommerce push, Cuba invites private business, a new green world order
TikTok plans to expand into ecommerce in the US to compete with Facebook, Cuba has announced it will open most of the economy to private business, and Mercedes-Benz says by 2030 it will make as much f...
8 Feb 20219min
Carmakers’ chip woes, UK directors face liability rules, Japan’s job-creating robots
German carmakers are considering their own semiconductor stockpiles to avoid supply chain troubles, the UK government could soon hold directors personally liable for the accuracy of their companies’ f...
5 Feb 20219min
Nvidia-Arm antitrust probes, Australia takes on Google, discount retailers thrive
The EU and the UK are set to open probes into Nvidia’s $40bn acquisition of chip designer Arm, Microsoft looks to capitalise on Google’s threat to shut its search engine in Australia, and Mario Draghi...
4 Feb 202110min
Bezos to step aside, Draghi set for Rome, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi house arrest
Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos will step aside later this year to become executive chairman of the ecommerce group, Italy’s president is expected to ask former European Central Bank president, Mari...
3 Feb 202111min
