As the conflict in the Middle East expands to include Lebanon and Iran, markets are responding with surprising nonchalance.

Bio-based plastics can only counter emissions from fossil fuel-based plastic if the electricity used in their production is entirely derived from clean, renewable sources. Otherwise, if they are ...

Given these risks, and Trump’s demonstrated abuse of tariffs as president (applied on phoney national security grounds, even against close allies), it may be high time for Congress to consider ...

In his letter “EU focus on protecting the consumer is stifling innovation” (September 30) Danny Leipziger is correct to highlight the importance of lowering barriers to entry and improving the ...

I was pleased to read Pilita Clark’s article on the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, recognising that we need to go beyond individual companies cutting their own carbon footprint and ...

The £10 Christmas Bonus (“While we’re at it, let’s end the pensioner free bus pass”, Letters, September 18), introduced in 1972 and never increased since, let’s end this as well, providing a small but ...

Ben Hall writes that one theory why Austria is now marching to the far right is that the country presents itself “as the first foreign victim of National Socialism”, and therefore “lacks the same ...

Communications specialists say podcasts can encourage executives to speak more openly and on a more personal level. This can ...

Sotheby’s debt in the limelight; Christie’s dresses up for Hong Kong; advisory firm opens in Paris; Guyana artist gets his ...

Israel’s escalating bombardments of Lebanon over the past two weeks have left a mark across the landscape: an estimated 3,100 ...

OpenAI has asked investors to avoid backing rival start-ups such as Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI, as it secures $6.6bn in new funding and seeks to shut out challengers to its early lead in generative ...

UK fintech Revolut has called on Meta to share the cost of compensating fraud victims with banks and criticised its fraud ...