Opinion

  The must-read reporting over the weekend was Jonathan Swan’s series at Axios exploring the efforts of former President Donald Trump’s supporters and other Trump-friendly Republicans to prepare to staff a potential Trump second term. During the presidential nomination competition in 2015-2016, Republican party actors generally opposed Trump, in part because they considered him a risky general election candidate and ...

India’s tech industry is ruling out a US recession. Or so you would think from Infosys Ltd’s cheery forecast of 14% to 16% annual revenue growth, slightly better than what the country’s second-biggest exporter of software services was projecting just three months ago. The Bengaluru-based firm, which reported its June quarter earnings, is considered the industry’s weathervane. If it’s optimistic ...

It’s the end of an era for Primark’s owner Associated British Foods Plc, as longtime CFO John Bason prepares to retire in April next year. He will be succeeded by Eoin Tonge, the finance director of Marks & Spencer Group Plc. Behind the drama — Tonge was given an enlarged role at M&S only a few weeks ago and was ...

  Last week, unbeknown to many outside the power industry, parts of London came remarkably close to a blackout — even as it was recovering from the hottest day in British history. On July 20, surging electricity demand collided with a bottleneck in the grid, leaving the eastern part of the British capital briefly short of power. Only by paying ...

  President Joe Biden’s administration has been discussing changes to US tariffs on China for weeks. Officials are concerned that high import prices are adding to inflation, and they’re looking for remedies. People familiar with the discussions say a decision will come soon — and that the result will be tweaks to the measures put in place by the Donald ...

  The contest for the Tory leadership may have weeks to run, but elite opinion has already plumped firmly for Rishi Sunak, former chancellor of the exchequer and Goldman Sachs banker, as its choice. The Times of London endorsed Sunak. The Financial Times and The Economist can be expected to follow. This is a mixed blessing for a candidate who ...

Much of the rich world is emerging from two years of pandemic more flush than it’s ever been. Deposits held by consumers at US commercial banks are roughly $3.5 trillion above where they’d have been if they continued the pre-pandemic trend, a position that inflation is only starting to eat away. For the airline industry, it’s precisely the opposite. While ...

  The industrial sector is just a leadership shakeup away from having one of the highest rates of female chief executive officers in the S&P 500. Before you get too excited, the numbers are still small: There are 69 industrial companies on the benchmark index and as of the beginning of the year, four of them had female CEOs, according ...

  The timing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proposed trip to Taiwan puts President Joe Biden in a bind. Having drawn threats and condemnation from Beijing, the visit risks undermining any fruits of a planned call between Biden and China’s Xi Jinping. For Pelosi to postpone or cancel, though, would leave the impression of a US administration backing down in ...

Italy is back in crisis, unsurprisingly. The political cycle that started with a populist earthquake in 2018, bringing together fringe forces of the left and right in an unusual coalition, has ended the same way it started — with a bitter shock to the system and market turbulence over the future of Italy. Along the way, it has fuelled the ...