Brexit trade talks on a knife-edge, Brussels urged to heed climate science, Covid vaccines in India
Britain’s trade talks with the EU were on “a knife-edge” on Sunday, Brussels has been urged to stick to climate science when drawing up rules on sustainable finance, and doses of the coronavirus vacci...
7 Des 20208min
Brussels’s EU budget warning, Macron complicates Brexit deal, the ‘everything’ market rally
EU budget commissioner Johannes Hanes has warned Poland and Hungary that Brussels could cut them out of its recovery fund, British officials accused France of making new Brexit demands at the eleventh...
4 Des 202010min
Democrats support US stimulus plan, China invests in US tech, reaction to UK vaccine approval
Top Democrats have expressed support for a $908bn stimulus plan offered by a bipartisan group of US senators, the UK has become the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine, and Chinese state-backe...
3 Des 202010min
Airbnb IPO pricing, EU squeezes UK in Brexit talks, Brazil's economy during the pandemic
Airbnb disclosed on Tuesday that it could raise as much as $2.5bn in its initial public offering, and Brussels is still holding back on granting Britain a whole collection of Brexit rights and regulat...
2 Des 20209min
Understanding eurozone inflation, Zoom sales up, Mnuchin and Powell testify before US Congress
The cost of many popular goods and services in the eurozone is rising far faster than the bloc’s overall depressed level of inflation, the video conferencing company Zoom continued to ride the boom in...
1 Des 20209min
EU pitches post-Trump alliance with US, Covid-19 vaccine rollout, Lam’s cash problem
The EU will call on the US to seize a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to forge a new global alliance, the first coronavirus vaccine is on track for international deployment within weeks, and Hong K...
30 Nov 202010min
Is AI finally closing in on human intelligence?
The company OpenAI has developed an extremely powerful machine-learning system that can rapidly generate text with minimal human input. The system is known as GPT-3 and it does everything from craftin...
27 Nov 20209min
Brexit financial services woes, Salesforce eyes Slack, Facebook’s ad troubles
Europe’s financial sector has reached “peak uncertainty” as regulators and banks rush to stave off the harshest effects of Brexit, cloud software company Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack, and Faceb...
26 Nov 20208min
