The planned £15bn merger between Vodafone and Three could be derailed after the competition watchdog said it intends to launch a major investigation into the deal, says Daniel Binns on Sky News. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has already

Joseph Sternberg The Wall Street Journal Last Tuesday, Sweden’s central bank asked taxpayers for a $4.1bn cash injection to “make good the losses” the Riksbank has experienced due to quantitative-easing (QE) policies, says Joseph Sternberg. The effec

Tesla’s stock has slumped on reports the group has jettisoned a “long-promised plan to offer an inexpensive electric car” to “drive its expansion in the mass market”, says The Times. The move, which CEO Elon Musk has denied, represents a “dramatic ch

“Did I use that leverage to my advantage? Yes… in the 11th hour [I said]: ‘You know, that’s a lovely offer of $9m. But I need one more to make it ten…’ To receive an eight-figure offer, for a woman, is huge. Sometimes women don’t like to talk about t

Disney successfully defeated a boardroom coup led by activist investor Nelson Peltz after securing enough votes to re-elect all 12 of its board members at a shareholders’ meeting, says The Guardian. In a high-profile proxy battle with Disney, Peltz h

Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk and the $44 billion Fight for Twitter’s Soul Kurt Wagner Hodder & Stoughton, £20 Even at its peak, social-media platform Twitter (now rebranded X) had a much smaller user base than its rival, Facebook. But with Twitter being th

■ Adviser Glass Lewis (GL) is urging Abrdn’s shareholders to vote against the asset management group’s pay report at the annual meeting on 24 April, says the Financial Times. Glass Lewis objects to new chief financial officer Jason Windsor’s £675,000

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Joe Lewis (pictured), the 87-year-old British billionaire whose family owns Tottenham Hotspur football club, will avoid being sent to prison for insider trading, says the Financial Times. A federal judge in the US agreed to a £5m fine and three years

spectator.co.uk Brexit should have offered Britain the chance to “move nimbly”, striking trade deals worldwide, says Damien Phillips. Instead, “trade has simply become another arena for showcasing the shortcomings of our politicians”. There have bee

awealthofcommonsense.com It’s been four years since Covid struck, and the US economy is roaring, says Ben Carlson. Net worth, stocks and house prices sit at all-time highs. “Call it a bubble if you want, but the artificial-intelligence revolution is

The “engine of global growth is in Asia”, says Francisco García Paramés, the Spanish fund manager who has been one of the eurozone’s leading proponents of value investing over the past three decades. Europe is stagnant, while “moderate growth” in the

Purchasing power parity (PPP) attempts to measure the absolute purchasing power of country’s currency, to indicate how over- or undervalued one currency is relative to another. and to help compare economic data between countries. It does this by comp

In a “landmark” decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has effectively ruled that “weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights”, says Ajit Niranjan in The Guardian. Specifically, it found that Switzerland had violat

● Almost half of savers under the age of 35 have considered reducing pension contributions owing to the cost-of-living crisis, new research reveals. The number of young people reducing their savings has worried advisers, who point out that the long-t

The new tax year has dawned, and with it your new individual savings account (Isa) allowance. You can now invest another £20,000 into stocks and shares Isas, innovative finance Isas and cash Isas. If you have a lifetime Isa, you can deposit another £

● “It would be mean-spirited not to wish” Superdry’s CEO and co-founder Julian Dunkerton (pictured) well as the clothing retailer bids to revive its fortunes by cutting costs and raising new equity, says Simon English in the Evening Standard. But Sup

“Higher interest rates have yet to hurt the... stockmarket, [but] commercial real estate (CRE) is a... different story... Urban office buildings [in the US have been] changing hands at 75% discounts to their last sales... Newmark, a real-estate advis

US dollars per troy ounce Silver is close to a three-year high. At $28 per ounce this week, the precious metal hasn’t been this expensive since May 2021. Overshadowed by new record highs in gold, the silver rally has been driven by similar factors, s

US “small-cap stocks are suffering their worst run of performance relative to large companies in more than 20 years”, says George Steer in the Financial Times. The Russell 2000 index of small and mid-sized firms has gained 24% this decade, compared w

China and Russia “doubled down” on their strengthening alliance at a meeting this week between Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, say Austin Ramzy and Ann Simmons in The Wall Street Journal. They pledged their “shar