Add AI and fickle wealth to the mix of market jitters, and the firm provides investors the perfect focus for their worries.

The National Basketball Association should be struggling right now. During the first month of the season, the game’s biggest stars — players who’ve made an All-Star or All-NBA team in the last three years — missed over 200 games. That’s double the total from the same point two seasons ago, according to Yahoo Sports.

Days after President Donald Trump announced that more than 233,000 refugees would face fresh scrutiny over their legal status, an Afghan refugee was charged with shooting members of the National Guard near the White House, killing one and gravely wounding another.

At the height of Brexit wars six years ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson locked horns with Keir Starmer over a second referendum that might reverse the voters’ 2016 decision to quit the European Union. The stakes then seemed hugely consequential: Johnson’s government, it was widely believed, would complete the Thatcher revolution by turbocharging its economic and social model once free of the EU straitjacket. Watching anxiously in the wings were Germany and France, both fearing the UK would bec

The danger for Kyiv comes from the kind of peace that resulted from the Punic Wars

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A big subject requires a big book — and few subjects are bigger than global capitalism. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital came to 3,000 pages in three volumes, and Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century to seven hundred pages. Now along comes Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History at 1,325 pages, reportedly one of the longest books ever produced by Penguin Press.

More plainclothes delivery drivers are likely to appear on Ring cameras this holiday season.

The Trump administration was voted in to turn price hikes around and make things more affordable. It’s time to try harder.

With the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the US has amassed a fearsome array of assets off the shores of Venezuela: dozens of advanced fighter jets, thousands of troops, guided-missile destroyers, special operations forces, armed drones, gunships, possibly a nuclear submarine. More useful, however, would be a strategy.

One of the first things I learned about retirement finance is that there are only three ways to increase income once you stop working:

As financial scandals go, this one has it all: a flamboyant, politically connected executive taking on Brazil’s financial titans with a fast-growing bank built on aggressive tactics and exotic financial engineering; a spectacular collapse amid billion-dollar fraud allegations; and an airport arrest just as the businessman was about to leave the country on his private jet. Call Netflix immediately!

Britain’s “mansion tax,” which is due to become a reality in 2028 almost two decades after it was first proposed, promises a lot of trouble for little reward. The annual levy, on homes valued at more than £2 million ($2.6 million), will raise relatively modest revenue while leaving in place a property-based local taxation system that’s riddled with anomalies and unfairness. In an area ripe for overhaul, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves opted for the quick and dirty.

On the eve of a contentious OPEC meeting in the 1980s, one of the cartel’s top officials penned a poem that caused quite a stir among his colleagues. As the group meets on Sunday facing the danger of an oil price crash in 2026, his verses remain as relevant and as controversial four decades later.

Multi-strategy hedge funds have been around for more than three decades. Will they make it to a half century? Ray Dalio, founder of 50-year-old hedge fund Bridgewater Associates has his doubts about this thriving subsector of asset management. The question is whether the flaw he sees in the “multi-strat” model is in fact a feature not a bug.

The Philippines is one of the most graft-riddled countries in the world, routinely scoring toward the bottom of global corruption indices, alongside the likes of Sierra Leone and Angola. But even by its own troubled standards, the past few months have exposed how deep the rot goes.

Timothy Geithner, the former US Treasury Secretary who had extensive dealings with Japan over the course of his career, didn’t place much value in forecasting. He learned as a young diplomat in Tokyo cranking out quarterly economic outlooks that even the best were little more than educated guesses.

No other company embodies the promises and perils of China’s current growth model quite like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The technology giant’s most recent quarterly earnings are a textbook illustration of the contradictions of Beijing’s two-speed economy — both strong and shaky at the same time.

The potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is the talk of the entertainment industry, with each new development fueling fresh speculation. That trend continued Tuesday when it was reported that the studio giant set a Dec. 1 deadline for second-round offers after receiving three non-binding first-round bids last week — from Paramount Skydance Corp., Netflix Inc. and Comcast Corp. — that could result in the sale of all or part of the media conglomerate.Much of the discussion has centered

In the spirit of Thanksgiving gratitude, it’s time to show a little love for US federal district judges. While the Supreme Court justices get the glory (and these days, the blame), district court judges have been standing up to Donald Trump’s relentless war on the Constitution more than any other part of the government.

If at times this year it seemed that Steve Witkoff, the US president’s Mr. Fix-it for pretty much everything, was much too close to the Kremlin, we now know why — thanks to a scoop from Bloomberg News. It’s because he was.

The end is in sight for the saga of China’s London “super embassy.” Keir Starmer’s Labour government has let it be known that it will approve Europe’s largest diplomatic compound on the site of the former Royal Mint, jumping the gun ahead of a twice-delayed formal decision due next month. The sensitivity of handing a complex of such size, strategic location and symbolic value to a Communist superpower spurred a yearslong campaign of opposition and has become the biggest obstacle to Starmer’s hop

Rich countries have been left in the dust by China in the clean energy industries that have dominated the past decade or so: solar panels, wind turbines, lithium-ion batteries, and electric vehicles. Still, you might have hoped they’d take the lead in the technologies of the future, such as clean hydrogen.

Sinking homes? The future of AI? Here are some subjects that are sure to keep your Thanksgiving guests on their toes.