BUSINESS
SVB Aftermath: US banks need more capital, not a new rulebook
A less complicated regime, simply requiring higher levels of loss-absorbing equity capital, would be both safer and less onerous. Such a reform would ensure banks have enough capacity to bear inevitable losses, strengthen the broader financial system and free regulators from the need to quantify every potential risk
BUSINESS
Amid Russia’s turmoil, are sanctions really helping?
Putin may have deflected Prigozhin’s rebellion, but the ruble’s slide suggests deepening trouble. Western leaders need to be clear about their goals
BUSINESS
Net zero is stalling out. What now?
Pledges to slash carbon emissions are well and good. But governments need to start delivering concrete benefits
WORLD
Brazil to cap carbon emissions for large polluting companies
The regulated carbon market will affect around 5,000 companies that annually emit more than 25,000 tons of CO2 equivalent into the atmosphere.
BUSINESS
Beating inflation might still need higher rates
Has the Fed done enough to get the inflation rate all the way back down to 2 percent? It’s too soon to say
BUSINESS
Fitch was right: political dysfunction and reckless fiscal policy impair US debt
The dismissive reaction to a US downgrade was revealing. Fiscal trends and broken politics shouldn’t be discounted
BUSINESS
Will the LK-99 superconductor change the world?
A superconductor operating at room temperature, which LK-99 claims to be, would qualify as the "holy grail" of the field as it can be deployed cheaply and widely, revolutionising fields from energy to transportation to computing. But there's also scepticism as sometimes things that seem too good to be true are just that
BUSINESS
European stock research doesn’t need another reform
Unbundling hasn’t gone quite as planned. That’s no reason to reverse course
BUSINESS
Don’t blame Canada for raiding America’s tech talent
In contrast to the US's dysfunctional immigration system that keeps tech workers on H1-B visas on the edge amid massive job losses in big tech companies, Canada's new three-year work permit targeting US-based foreign workers having skills in STEM fields, which also allows their spouses to work unlike in the US, is finding many takers
BUSINESS
Europe has a plan to avert a sovereign-debt crisis
If only the union’s member states and parliament would approve it
BUSINESS
Piramal alternatives plans to raise $1.5 Billion for private credit
Piramal Alternatives plans to raise $1.5 billion for investment in India’s high-yield companies via private credit, according to its chief executive officer.
WORLD
Confiscate Russian assets? The west should resist
Using frozen Russian reserves to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction is tempting — but misguided
BUSINESS
Putin’s nuclear threats demand a response
BUSINESS
For the Fed, doing nothing is the greater risk
BUSINESS
Electric vehicles alone can’t solve climate change
BUSINESS
Europe's Gas outlook looks much rosier this year due to winter luck
BUSINESS
Chipmaker TSMC's Europe factory plan gives it a new global dimension
BUSINESS
Crypto is still a mess. A crackdown would do it good
BUSINESS
If the banking crisis offers one lesson, let it be this
BUSINESS
ChatGPT is knock knock knockin' on Spotify's door
BUSINESS
ECB Half-Point March Rate Hike Very Likely, Lagarde Says
BUSINESS
No, banks aren’t stronger than they need to be
BUSINESS
This isn’t your mom and dad’s recession, says BofA’s Savita Subramanian
TRENDS
Noma and the Search for a Second Act
