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Can Deutschland AG cope with the Russian gas shock?

Founded in 1763 by Frederick the Great, Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur still uses traditional methods to make its high-end porcelain. As in the past, kpm vases and cups are blasted with heat in furnaces:...

Watch Russia’s Rosneft to see the new direction of global petropolitics

Igor sechin is easy to caricature. The boss of Rosneft, Russia’s state-owned oil giant, is a burly man with close-cropped hair whose pastime is making sausages, reputedly out of deer he himself...

Introducing The Bottom Line, our new business and technology newsletter

Our new weekly newsletter, the Bottom Line, offers readers a panoramic sweep of the fast-changing world of tech and business. As technological shifts, geopolitics and inflation cause tumult and opportunities like never...

With or without Elon Musk, Twitter is overdue a shake-up

Elon musk’s acquisition of Twitter was to be one of the biggest buy-outs in corporate history. Now it threatens to become one of the ugliest disputes. Twitter is expected to file a...

After a turbocharged boom, are chipmakers in for a supersize bust?

In 2021 graphics cards were hot stuff. Video-game devotees and cryptocurrency miners queued overnight to get their hands on the latest high-end offering from Nvidia or amd, two American chipmakers. And graphics...

After a turbocharged boom, are chipmakers in for a supersized bust?

In 2021 graphics cards were hot stuff. Video-game devotees and cryptocurrency miners queued overnight to get their hands on the latest high-end offering from Nvidia or amd, two American chipmakers. And graphics...

What does the future hold for Reliance, India’s biggest firm?

India inc’s business calendar has only one contender to rival Berkshire Hathaway’s famous shareholder gathering. The subcontinent’s equivalent of that “Woodstock for capitalists” is the annual general meeting of Reliance Industries. Like...

Private equity may be heading for a fall

If investors in equities and debt markets will remember anything of the first half of 2022 it will be generational sell-offs. But the turmoil in public markets has not yet fully bled...

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