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‘Crazy’ French Inversion Shows Credit Is a Haven: Credit Weekly

Bond traders are making an unusual judgment about risk in French financial markets: they believe collateralized bank bonds are safer than government debt.

Iran Nuclear Activity Raises New Concerns

On Bloomberg This Weekend, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Ray Takeyh says renewed Houthi attacks represent a significant setback for the US strategy of …

RBI Said to Reject Tata Sons Request to Avoid An IPO

India’s central bank rejected an application from Tata Sons Pvt. to surrender its status as a shadow lender, according to people familiar with the matter, …

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi moved closer to overcoming years of frictions over issues including an unresolved border dispute, holding …

Trump says united Ireland ‘inevitable’ and ‘a very cool thing’

Off-the-cuff remarks from US president during a visit to Ireland anger pro-UK parties

Oil Supply Risks Rise After Saudi Pipeline Attack

Saudi Arabia shut its East-West Pipeline as a precaution after multiple attacks, threatening a crucial route for moving crude to the Red Sea while bypassing …

Reform UK receives two record £36mn donations

The combined £72mn gifts from crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne are the largest donations in British political history

Saudi Arabia shuts East-West pipeline that bypasses Hormuz after attacks

Move is likely to put further momentum behind fast-rising oil prices

Canada seeks $1tn from investors looking for a haven from Trump

Prime Minister Mark Carney hosts a summit to put money behind his plan to decouple from an increasingly hostile US

The long shadow of quantitative easing

Central bank balance sheets will stay large

BRICS 2026: Narendra Modi Arrives At Bharat Mandapam

Narendra Modi arrives at the main convention hall as the summit gets underway (Source: Bloomberg)

Here’s Who HSBC May Tap as Its Next Chief Financial Officer

HSBC Holdings Plc is set to start its search for a new chief financial officer, parsing through a pool of internal and external candidates willing …

LIV Golf’s bleak future shifts to the courtroom

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Robert Friedland on the World’s Monumental Shortage of Copper

Xi Jinping Arrives For BRICS Summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Delhi for BRICS Summit 2026 ahead of bilateral talks (Source: Bloomberg)

India’s SEBI Seeks Major Changes to Unpopular Auction System

India’s markets regulator proposed sweeping changes to the closing auction system, including a possible return to the previous method for settling derivatives on expiry days, …

We are setting up a generation to fail at school

The disturbing global decline in test results rests on wrong-headed curriculum changes

High oil prices could force ECB to raise rates further, warns top …

Austrian central bank governor Martin Kocher says risk of elevated inflation is higher than it was a few months ago

Why I, a non-billionaire, am not leaving the UK

If Britain is good enough for Harry and Meghan, the Bayeux Tapestry and Asian hornets, it’s good enough for me

It’s time to scrap the triple lock

The Budget needs to tip the balance back to Britain’s younger generations, who are priced out of a bright future

Exorbitant tennis tickets are the price of the sport’s success

US Open’s growing popularity plus rising expense of running the tournament mean there is no obvious solution to affordability issues

South Korea arms itself to protect chip secrets from foreign spies

Seoul broadens its espionage legislation for the first time in more than seven decades

Why the British glass industry could be Number 10 North’s first major …

Heavily northern-based sector says intervention by Burnham is needed to reverse ‘dramatic decline’ caused by new packaging levies