Category: Business

The UK government has given the go-ahead for drilling to start to establish the size of a gasfield on the edge of the scenic Surrey Hills countryside just south of … Read More

The lobby group for the world’s largest hedge funds has made a formal complaint to the London Metal Exchange, alleging the market operator failed to perform its regulatory functions when … Read More

A couple of weeks ago, I had breakfast in New York with a Malaysian accountant-turned-banker named Azman Mokhtar, who I first met years ago when he ran the Khazanah sovereign … Read More

Moderna has said its new two-strain Covid-19 booster increases people’s immunity against the dominant Omicron variant, bolstering the company’s hopes to roll it out as a fourth dose in the … Read More

City law firm Mishcon de Reya has put plans to float on the London stock market on hold “for the foreseeable future”, halting preparations for a listing that could have … Read More

Meyrick Chapman is the principal of Hedge Analytics and a former portfolio manager at Elliott Management and bond strategist at UBS. In Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, the … Read More

This article is an on-site version of The Lex Newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Wednesday and Friday Dear reader, Until … Read More

Inditex, the world’s largest clothing retailer, posted an 80 per cent increase in first-quarter net profit as sales surpassed pre-pandemic levels. The owner of brands including Zara, Massimo Dutti and … Read More

Billionaire Rob Walton, the heir to the Walmart retail fortune, has agreed to buy the Denver Broncos American football franchise for a reported sum of $4.6bn, a record for a … Read More

Downing Street has condemned this month’s proposed rail strikes across the UK as “selfish”, “an act of self-harm” and “thoroughly irresponsible”, as negotiations continue to try to avert the worst … Read More