Peak social media: The power of influencers
Social media today is less about making friends and more about following popular content creators. While those creators are starting to hold some power over the platforms themselves, they’re also look...
29 Jul 202326min
Stricter rules for US banks
The European Central Bank has raised interest rates back to their record high, and US bank regulators have advanced plans to impose more arduous capital requirements on the country’s large lenders. Pl...
28 Jul 20239min
US hits highest interest rates in 22 years
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, Facebook parent Meta returned to double-digit revenue growth for the first time since the end of 2021, and US...
27 Jul 20239min
A glimmer of hope for the global economy
Alphabet earnings beat expectations, a new report from the IMF says the future of the global economy is looking a little brighter than it did a few months ago, and the troubled regional bank PacWest h...
26 Jul 20238min
Spain in political limbo
Credit Suisse has been fined $388mn by US and British regulators, and Spain is facing an uncertain political future as the right and left failed to secure a clear path to forming a government. Plus, T...
25 Jul 20238min
A missed shot for women’s football
America’s risky corporate loan market has been hit by the biggest slew of downgrades since the depths of the Covid crisis in 2020, and European banks with large retail arms are expected to report big ...
24 Jul 20238min
Peak social media: The debate over young users’ mental health
There’s a growing feeling that social media is bad for us: bad for society and bad for our wellbeing. That trend has culminated in a new wave of legislation in the United States aiming to address soci...
22 Jul 202326min
Treatments for Alzheimer’s, finally
The Nasdaq Composite had its biggest one-day drop in more than four months, the winner of Thailand’s general election has been suspended from parliament, and the FT’s Clive Cookson tells us about two ...
21 Jul 20239min
