For now China can fill the gap between its spending ambitions and its diminished revenues by borrowing. Yields on its existing bonds are low. And in March it said it would issue new “ultra” long-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Mr Macron is speaking just days after giving a speech at the Sorbonne in which he first said that “our Europe can die”. In ...

Previewing Mr Xi’s visit, Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to France, reminded Chinese reporters in Paris of the moment, 60 years ...

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Hedge funds take great pains to hide their inner workings. So a recent court case in which Jane Street sued two former ...

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Did you know that the wildfires which ravaged Hawaii last summer were started by a secret “weather weapon” being tested by America’s armed forces, and that American ngos were spreading dengue fever in ...