China’s proliferating smart city technology
Israel’s parliament has voted in a new government, ending rightwing stalwart and five-time premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year grip on power, South Korean shipbuilders and sea freight companies will ...
14 Jun 202110min
Inflation rises but worries fade, global taxation deal
Leaders of the G7 economies convening in the UK will announce a pledge to provide 1bn coronavirus doses to poorer countries as part of plan to “vaccinate the world” by the end of 2022, US government b...
11 Jun 202110min
The true cost of zero commission trading
Today’s report on US consumer prices is expected to show that prices further accelerated in May, US president Joe Biden will use this week’s G7 summit to encourage allies to join Washington’s tougher ...
10 Jun 20219min
The FBI’s hi-tech sting, the day the internet broke
Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul the international tax system will face a difficult passage through the US Congress as Republicans threaten to vote down a prospective deal, and millions of internet users ...
9 Jun 20219min
Abu Dhabi’s creative pivot away from oil
US officials say they have recovered $2.3m worth of ransom payments made to hackers who shut down the Colonial pipeline last month, investors pile into Biogen after the US Food and Drug Administration...
8 Jun 20219min
The potential disruption of decentralised finance
One of the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturers warns the global chip shortage could last until mid-2022, the G7 advanced economies have struck what they have termed a “historic agreemen...
7 Jun 20219min
Are we in a new era of inflation?
The Biden administration is banning Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese defence and surveillance technology companies, and US job creation is expected to have accelerated sharply in May whic...
4 Jun 20219min
AMC butters up retail investors, Naomi Osaka shakes up sports media
A wave of high-profile ransomware assaults over the past two months has convulsed the insurance market, US cinema chain AMC is offering popcorn to its retail investor base and its share price surged s...
3 Jun 20218min
