How Silicon Valley turned China into its lifeline
Eric Schmidt helped Washington reimagine the west coast tech titans as shields against the world’s second-largest economy ...
AstraZeneca ditches plan to build new UK vaccine plant
AstraZeneca is pulling out of its plans to build a £450mn UK vaccine manufacturing plant after months of wrangling with ...
Russian LNG group lobbies EU think-tanks against tighter sanctions
The European Commission this week proposed limited bans on Russian LNG going to EU ports that are not linked up to the bloc’s main gas grid. The proposal has yet to garner support among the bloc’s 27 ...
Trafigura’s former chief operating officer jailed for at least a year
Mike Wainwright found guilty by Swiss court of paying more than €5mn in bribes in first conviction of commodity trader for corruption ...
HarbourVest investment trust agrees shake-up after activist’s complaints
This move follows the recent push by US activist Saba Capital, run by Boaz Weinstein, to overturn the entire boards at seven UK-listed investment trusts. This month Saba lost its first of these ...
How Taiwan became a quiet bond market superpower
Starting in the early 2000s, Taiwan started to run large current account surpluses of 5- 7 per cent of GDP. That’s big. At ...