Mar 24th 2025 V LADIMIR PUTIN is getting ready for an early Christmas. In the hope of a swift normalisation of relations with America, the Kremlin has been asking Russian firms which sanctions they would like Uncle Sam to lift first. America, for its part, seems impatient to deliver the gifts. Last week Steve Witkoff

Mar 23rd 2025 T he mood music on Wall Street is downbeat, as America’s government throttles trade and hints at recession. Consumers seem poised to trim spending. Yet one corner of the entertainment industry is partying on. Live Nation, a concert promoter, has said it expects the live-music industry to break records in 2025. Its

W hat are the Trumpiest firms? One way to answer the question is by looking at companies in the president’s orbit, such as Tesla, owned by Elon Musk, his billionaire adviser, or the eponymous Trump Media & Technology Group. Another way is to look at firms that saw their prices surge the day after Donald

A ny time share prices are slumping, it is worth looking at a chart of America’s S&P 500 index that goes back to 1987. That year on October 19th, or “Black Monday”, it plummeted by 20% in a single day—a crash not equalled before or since. The shock was so great that regulators subsequently devised

T he Trump administration has been extraordinarily blasé about falling stocks. “I can tell you that corrections are healthy, they are normal,” said Scott Bessent, America’s treasury secretary on March 16th, in the government’s most recent shrug. The stumble in America’s long stockmarket rally—the S&P 500 index is down by 8% from its all-time high

Mar 18th 2025 T hink of America as a vast economic experiment. The country left the covid-19 pandemic full of stimulus, and with a roaring stockmarket. Which places managed to channel this vigour into new companies, houses, power stations and intellectual property? And which let rents and prices surge instead? Explore more Finance & economics

Mar 18th 2025 T hink of America as a vast economic experiment. The country left the covid-19 pandemic full of stimulus, and with a roaring stockmarket. Which places managed to channel this vigour into new companies, houses, power stations and intellectual property? And which let rents and prices surge instead? Explore more Finance & economics

Mar 18th 2025 | Bangkok and Jakarta I N A SCRAPPY office that is more startup than ivory tower Yossapong Laoonual, head of the Electric Vehicle Association of Thailand, strikes a bullish tone. Clinging to the internal-combustion engine is “like doubling down on horse-drawn carriages long after motorised vehicles became the standard”, he says. A

Mar 17th 2025 | Hong Kong I nstalling more lifts in multi-storey buildings, extending the hours of children’s clinics during flu season, encouraging foreign direct investment in camping. These are some of the ideas sprinkled throughout China’s “special action plan” to boost consumption, which was published on March 16th, a Sunday, thus extending the hours

Mar 16th 2025 | San Francisco A cross advanced economies, the rental market is undergoing a profound change. In the years before covid-19 struck, rents were high but not growing fast: the cost of leasing a home rose by about 2% a year, according to official data. During the pandemic, rental inflation slowed and, in