Red Bull’s legal challenge against India’s food regulator has turned a dispute over product labelling into a broader question about how regulatory decisions affecting established consumer brands should be implemented. The company has challenged an order requiring it to stop… Read More ›
The return of exceptionally large initial public offerings is changing the role of the stock market in financing some of the world’s most ambitious companies. SpaceX’s planned public offering, alongside the expected listing of Anthropic and comparisons with previous mega-deals… Read More ›
Technology companies are investing heavily in devices designed to move artificial intelligence beyond the smartphone, but privacy is emerging as one of the biggest obstacles to mainstream adoption. Smart glasses, wearable pins and voice-recording devices can observe or hear their… Read More ›
The European Central Bank’s concern about diesel prices reflects a broader problem with energy shocks: fuel inflation can spread through an economy much faster than policymakers can respond to it. ECB Vice-President Boris Vujcic has warned that oil prices have… Read More ›
The theft of approximately 95 million euros from Fideuram, the private banking arm of Intesa Sanpaolo, demonstrates how artificial intelligence is changing financial fraud from a problem of forged documents into a problem of manufactured trust. Fraudsters reportedly impersonated senior… Read More ›
India’s decision to direct more than 100 captive coal-fired power plants to operate at maximum capacity reflects a growing challenge in the country’s electricity system: demand is increasing at a time when conventional fuel supplies are already under pressure. The… Read More ›
Europe’s latest energy warning reflects a shift in the nature of the continent’s energy problem. The European Union is not currently describing an immediate physical shortage of gas and electricity, but it is facing a combination of high prices, disrupted… Read More ›
The International Monetary Fund is moving toward a more selective approach to the reforms attached to its lending programmes, reflecting a basic problem exposed by the shocks of recent years: countries receiving financial assistance cannot always implement long lists of… Read More ›
The most important warning from a sharp rise in US Treasury yields is not necessarily that borrowing costs have reached an unusually high level. It is that markets, companies and financial institutions can struggle when rates move upward faster than… Read More ›
The global economy is absorbing the latest Middle East energy shock better than initially feared, and a major reason is the unusually strong investment cycle surrounding artificial intelligence. Spending on data centres, advanced computing equipment and semiconductor production is supporting… Read More ›
