The options boom is propelled by the rapid growth of India’s stockmarket. In January it overtook Hong Kong’s to become the ...

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Mr Macron’s critics called it a mix of electioneering, the usual French self-interest and the intellectual vanity of a ...

WALK INTO the office of a senior government official anywhere in India and you will find the same scene. Behind a large desk ...

W hen Russia’s leaders stopped most of the country’s gas deliveries to the EU in 2022, they thought themselves smart. Prices instantly shot up, enabling Russia to earn more despite lower export ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily ...

So worried was Israel’s leader that on April 30th he posted a video online to say that issuing such warrants against senior ...

At the start of this fiscal hullabaloo, in 1992, America’s net debt amounted to 46% of GDP. Today it has reached 96% of GDP. For the past five years, under first Donald Trump and then Joe Biden, the ...

If prudence is a virtue then America’s budget is an exercise in vice. Over the past 12 months the federal government has spent $2trn, or 7.2% of GDP, more than it has raised in taxes, after stripping ...

THE FEDERAL RESERVE, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England have all engaged in some form of quantitative ...

But many protesters hope to have a real-world impact, too. Divestment campaigns may exert influence by starving their targets of capital. Scare enough investors from an industry or country and, so the ...