BusinessSwiss GDP continues to expand quietly. The expansion is making the Swiss National Bank's toolkit increasingly look like it is enough to handle the near-term policy environment.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · May 18, 2026
BusinessStrong overseas demand for U.S. crude and refined fuels is draining domestic inventories and keeping pump prices firmer than the headline supply story suggests.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 4 min read · May 18, 2026
BusinessElliott's position in Bio-Rad puts a familiar activist playbook to work in a sector where strategic optionality has been visible — and ignored — for years.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 4 min read · May 18, 2026
BusinessEnergy-driven inflation is reshaping household balance sheets and equity returns in opposite directions, opening a divide the political system is poorly equipped to address.
By Marcus Penniford · 4 min read · May 17, 2026
BusinessA potential NextEra acquisition of Dominion would create the largest U.S. utility just as data-center load growth is rewriting the sector’s investment thesis.
By Theo Bodden · 4 min read · May 16, 2026
BusinessJerome Powell will remain acting chair until Kevin Warsh is sworn in — a routine handover with non-routine implications for markets watching the transition.
By Lina Brennan · 4 min read · May 16, 2026
BusinessA signal from the CEO that the carmaker would consider entering defense production marks how dramatically the European industrial conversation has changed.
By Marcus Penniford · 4 min read · May 15, 2026
BusinessIf SpaceX prices its long-awaited public offering on June 12, it will introduce a unique-structure mega-cap to investors who have grown wary of multi-class share arrangements.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 4 min read · May 15, 2026
BusinessMost active stock pickers are lagging the market again. The cause is not bad analysis — it is a rally so narrow that not owning a few names is itself a losing bet.
By Sarah Chen · 3 min read · May 15, 2026
BusinessA $30 billion fundraise concentrates venture capital around a small set of model labs and underscores how unusual the current capex cycle has become.
By Lina Brennan · 4 min read · May 15, 2026
BusinessIf AI automates the routine tasks of junior roles, the workers it cannot easily replace are the experienced ones — and that quietly rewrites the labor market's pecking order.
By Marcus Penniford · 3 min read · May 15, 2026
BusinessEurope's biggest firms increasingly list or move to US exchanges. Each departure makes the next one more likely, turning a drift into a structural feedback loop.
By Sarah Chen · 3 min read · May 15, 2026
BusinessThe semiconductor-equipment maker's upgraded guidance is the cleanest read available on hyperscaler capex intentions, and it is pointing higher.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 4 min read · May 14, 2026
BusinessWhen investors take profits into a rebound rather than chase it, crypto is behaving like a normal asset class. That is progress — and it changes how the market trades.
By Theo Bodden · 3 min read · May 14, 2026
BusinessCurtailing solar power while worrying about winter gas supply looks contradictory. It is really one problem: an electricity system that cannot move energy across time.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 3 min read · May 14, 2026
BusinessThe longest-serving Fed chair of the modern era leaves an institution that was tested by pandemic, inflation and political pressure — and that survived more or less intact.
By Marcus Penniford · 4 min read · May 14, 2026
BusinessThe ECB credits older workers and immigration for keeping the eurozone economy growing — and exposes the fragility of demographics-driven supply.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 4 min read · May 13, 2026
BusinessA barely-positive April reading for existing-home sales extends the longest housing-market slump in modern memory and forces a harder conversation about supply.
By Theo Bodden · 4 min read · May 11, 2026