The Economist

Advertisment

Booming M&A is smashing records

SUPPLY GLITCHES may be holding up transactions in much of the global economy but one area where purchasers can run riot is corporate acquisitions. Refinitiv, a data firm, tots up $5.1trn of...

Tech investors can’t get enough of Europe’s fizzing startup scene

THE IDEA of a Europe hostile to entrepreneurs would once have seemed laughable. At its 17th-century peak the Dutch East India Company’s appetite for capital to fuel its growth was so voracious...

Times are good for American railways

FEW INDUSTRIES are more vulnerable to events that depress revenues and increase expenses than America’s railways. The basic business model is to lug lots of stuff to offset the high fixed costs...

Shell mulls a breakup

PITY BEN VAN BEURDEN. The boss of Royal Dutch Shell is an affable man steering a Scylla-and-Charybdis course between oil-loving shareholders on one extreme and carbon-hating ones on the other. His latest...

The business phrasebook

REED HASTINGS HAS built the culture at Netflix around it. Ray Dalio made it a founding principle at Bridgewater, a successful investment fund. “Radical candour” is the idea that bracing honesty is...

An auction at Sotheby’s raises $676m

WHEN SOTHEBY’S raised the gavel on the season’s biggest art auction on November 15th the sellers, Harry and Linda Macklowe, did not arrive as one to watch the proceedings from the discreet...

Walmart gets its bite back

IN THEORY THIS should be a good time to be Walmart, the doyen of American retailers that came of age in the stagflationary era of the 1970s. Inflation is back, yet no...

Wanted: a new senior business writer

The Economist is hiring a senior business writer to provide thematic features across geographies and sectors. Applicants need not be journalists but should be stylish writers and financially literate. Please send a...

The Economist

Advertisment