Leapmotor's tie-up with the $23 bln group is turbocharging overseas sales as the upstart is on track to turn its first annual profit. But the benefits for Stellantis are less clear. The diverging ...

Shares of $7 bln Warburg Pincus-backed IDFC fell 16% after it flagged a suspected fraud in government accounts and a blame-game ensued. The market reaction is overblown but the lender's inconsistent ...

Stubborn valuation gaps are a lingering restraint on merger mania. One way to sway sellers without breaking the bank is to ...

Stocks have slid on fears artificial intelligence‑driven losses will outweigh gains. Since 2022, sectors that rapidly adopted ...

Looser building rules are the go-to fix, from the US to Australia. But rising incomes have played a bigger role in pushing prices up 718% over 50 years than supply constraints. Governments will either ...

New data centres from $4.6 trln Nvidia, AirTrunk and others use far less H2O than older ones. But many are in the same ...

Big drug companies could lose exclusivity rights on treatments accounting for most of their current revenue within a decade. That’s sending the likes of Gilead scrambling for new therapies. The pricey ...

The US government may owe refunds on $175 bln of collected tariffs. Importers big and small have sued; keen hedge funds have claims on spoils. Consumers who bore the costs get nothing. As the legal ...

Washington and Tehran are in nuclear talks, even as American forces mass in the Gulf. An echo of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action remains possible. But a bilateral scheme extracted under ...

With the president’s key levies void, Europe could seek better terms on last year’s trade deal. Yet Washington’s leverage ...

The Supreme Court ruling returns US effective levies on Chinese goods to 26% but the superpowers remain locked in a chips-for-rare-earths standoff. It vindicates the tough approach to dealing with ...

The region can no longer rely on the US. So it needs its own satellite communications, air defences, a homegrown nuclear umbrella for Europe and more research spending. Issuing eurobonds would fund ...