Bank of Japan raises policy rate to 0.5% and signals further increases
In a well-trailed move, the Bank of Japan on Friday raised the policy rate by 0.25 percentage points, taking it to 0.5 per ...
US shoppers help Burberry to smaller drop in sales than feared
Burberry’s sales over the festive period fell less than feared thanks to shoppers in the US. The British luxury brand, which ...
Wall Street will stymie Donald Trump’s US oil surge plan, say shale bosses
President Donald Trump’s call for a new oil boom will be thwarted by Wall Street’s reluctance to approve another drilling ...
London mansion formerly owned by Saudi royals sold for £139mn to mystery buyer
The Holme, which sits in a four-acre private garden within ​​Regent’s Park in central London, has been sold to a UK ...
Nathalie de Saint Phalle: ‘I am not a sheep, I’m a goat’
My style icon is David Bowie. I was 13 when he appeared. I had an electric guitar. Hunky Dory was a revelation. Like everyone ...
What’s wrong with Apple now?
There’s a little problem, though: most of the decline in the seven comes down to one company. Apple is down 14 per cent since ...
ETFs increase efficiency of markets, new study shows
The latest academic analysis suggests the growth of ETFs has improved the efficiency of stock pricing at the market level, a ...
The ECB needs a rethink of its policy approach
Experience suggests that abundant and cheap money is not a harbinger of price or financial stability, much less of sustained ...
Fear and loathing in Davos
Davos is supposed to be a bright spot for corporate Europe. While the world’s economic engines lie elsewhere — primarily in ...
Trump steers the world toward a tax war
A federal judge has blocked US President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, and shares in the leading ...
UK consumer confidence falls sharply in January
UK consumer confidence fell sharply in January to the lowest level in more than a year as a spike in government borrowing ...
How random, really, is Spotify’s shuffle feature?
I got in, put in my earbuds and hit shuffle on Spotify. “Maps”, the indie-rock love ballad by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, came on. I hadn’t heard it in maybe a decade and, just as I marvelled at how shuffle ...