WORLD
Fighter jet fury makes Emmanuel Macron's planes look good
When a $100 million fighter jet looks like a geopolitical clunker, it’s time for change
BUSINESS
Crypto prediction markets like Polymarket have a cloudy future
Platforms like Polymarket had a good election, but the hype is overdone
BUSINESS
France collects more tax than anyone else. It still isn't enough
Michel Barnier’s deficit challenge makes negotiating with Boris Johnson look easy
WORLD
Who will lead France out of this mess? Nobody
The nation needs a little more Erasmus and a lot less Machiavelli after elections that produced no majority
WORLD
French Election: Emmanuel Macron the Gambler wins a chance to play kingmaker
French voters’ “non” to Le Pen sets up a duel for a new coalition
WORLD
French Election: Macron has one last risky dice roll to keep Le Pen out
A shaky coalition is emerging to block France’s far right from power. But it brings its own risks
BUSINESS
Mapping Marine Le Pen’s route to an absolute majority in France
The National Rally party is winning voters from across the political spectrum ahead of the French election
POLITICS
French Election: Business leaders’ silence on Le Pen is deafening
It's time for the business establishment to speak out on the consequences of a far-right election victory
BUSINESS
Emmanuel Macron wants more European megafirms. Good luck with that
National resistance to cross-border champions is worth fighting, but the odds of victory are long
BUSINESS
Sam Bankman-Fried's incarceration is a warning to crypto
Sending the one time wunderkind to jail for 25 years and stripping him of $11 billion should act as powerful deterrent in a business still badly in need of cleaning up
BUSINESS
Germany is Europe’s sick man, but others are coughing
Berlin’s woes are well-known, but Italy’s fading growth points to the bloc’s long road to economic health. What might a better road to recovery look like? One is for Italy — and Europe — to make a success of pandemic recovery funds designed to heal the scars of Covid and invest in the future
BUSINESS
Dutch chip titan ASML is proving too big for its home country
Societies and companies riding the AI boom should watch this ASML fight closely. There’s a need to find a healthy path between the extremes of killing the goose that lays the golden egg — which is where Dutch politics is headed — and the corporate blackmail that favours one sector over another. Attracting qualified foreign talent is an obvious benefit, but it should be accompanied by a serious focus on local infrastructure, education and housing
WORLD
Brain drain from Putin’s Russia is far from over
An estimated 11-28% of Russian techies have left since the outbreak of war. Yandex NV, once hailed as the country’s answer to Google and valued at $30 billion before the Ukraine invasion, is selling its domestic business for about $5.2 billion. The pressure is even more acute in scientific research. Russia has lost more than 50,000 researchers in the past five years
BUSINESS
For battered Europe IPOs, two years in the stock market is a lifetime
The macroeconomic environment may be exacerbating poor performance of IPOs — higher interest rates tend to hurt risk appetite — but so are structural issues like skimpy analyst coverage of small companies and weak retail participation in Europe’s stock markets. Many companies are likely to leave the stock market, and their new owners may simply wait a few years before taking them public again — in the US
BUSINESS
Layoffs: Is AI coming for white-collar jobs? Coders and analysts should worry
Studies are finding AI tools improving productivity significantly for coders, analysists and customer support agents. IMF last month warned that jobs in advanced economies were especially exposed to AI and the risk of reduced labour demand, lower wages and reduced hiring. Some jobs might simply disappear
BUSINESS
The US stock market is eating the world. Where is Paris, London?
One way of seeing how two European footwear companies have performed on the stock market since going public — one in New York, one in London, should set alarm bells ringing across continental financial hubs, not just the UK
BUSINESS
Bitcoin ETF hype is more memestock than gold 2.0
Crypto prices are soaring, hackers are mobilising and Redditors are pumping. But the promise of game-changing, gold-like adoption looks like a meme too far
BUSINESS
Bitcoin hype will clash with the Rolex recession
Easy money is crypto’s real speculative fuel, but there’s not so much of it around these days
BUSINESS
Springsteen shows private equity who's boss
If you’re going to sell out, do it at the top of the market
BUSINESS
Shows of solidarity with Israel masks a fractured Europe
The EU is the No. 3 world economy, Israel’s largest trading partner and the biggest donor to the Palestinian Authority. It can and should be a player, not just a payer of aid, in the Middle East. At a time when the US is retreating into election mode, EU needs to go against the grain and be more assertive
BUSINESS
Some banks are actually sticking with WFH
Fights over productivity distract from more practical, even CEO-friendly, benefits
BUSINESS
Mario Draghi’s back — with a lot of work to do
A ‘whatever it takes’ approach to changing Europe's economic fortunes is exactly what's needed
BUSINESS
Revenge travellers are feeling ripped off as costs bite
Revenge travel faces a reckoning as service fails to match soaring prices
BUSINESS
Dubai welcomes hedge fund digital nomads with low taxes
Roughly 50 hedge funds jointly managing more than $1 trillion worth of assets are said to be looking to obtain a license in Dubai, which eagerly promotes its “zero personal income tax regime”
