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 ...