I’ve had my fill of Black Friday bargains
The arrival of Black Friday on these shores can be blamed on Amazon and Walmart, former owner of Asda supermarkets, who started the trend a decade ago. But the brands taking part in this annual ...
UK mortgage approvals rise to highest since August 2022
Net mortgage approvals for house purchases increased to 68,300 in October, up 2,200 on the previous month, according to data published by the Bank of England on Friday. The figure was higher than the ...
Talabat raises $2bn in Dubai IPO as Gulf flotations shine
Abu Dhabi’s state energy company floated its fuel distribution unit in 2017, raising about $850mn. Dubai’s state utility company raised $6.1bn in 2022, and state parking group Parkin raised $429mn ...
How to spend it in December
Deck your halls – and your tables. Tiffany & Co has reprised its “Comtesse de Grignan” pattern from 1961, which was named for the lavender fields in the Grignan commune of south-eastern France, in a ...
Bank of Elon? The idea is getting less far fetched
Owning a US bank is hard — deliberately so. A long-standing belief that commerce and banking are best kept separate has spawned rules and hurdles that effectively prevent Walmart, Google or Tesla from ...
Eurozone inflation rebounds as expected in November
With the energy drag on the overall index abating, headline HICP rebounded as expected to 2.3 per cent in November, from 2 per cent in October The services inflation rate declined a touch to 3.9 per ...
Bank of England warns of risks from non-banks in future markets crisis
More work is needed to tackle risks outside the banking sector, according to a Bank of England study which found that a market crisis would be amplified by fire sales of assets by pension funds, hedge ...
Eurozone households are gloomier than they should be
Households in the Eurozone are not spending enough. Private consumption has repeatedly undershot European Central Bank ...
BHP did Anglo American a favour
Duncan Wanblad’s work may make Anglo more attractive to a potential suitor — investors are better off, regardless ...
Chinese bond market grapples with ‘Japanification’
Deflation fuels ‘inexorable’ slide in China’s long-term sovereign bond yields below Japan’s for the first time ...
Transcript: France’s bond market sell-off
France’s financial markets are having a rough week. The country’s sovereign bond market in particular, is reeling with ten-year borrowing costs briefly hitting highs not seen since the 2012 Eurozone ...
‘I look like a design serial killer’: Queer Eye’s Jeremiah Brent talks taste
The best book I’ve read in the past year is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, a really fascinating ...