Former Vice President Joe Biden went to a church in Delaware to listen to voices of protest, then gave a speech in Philadelphia about what has happened in the country since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis. Both appearances told us a lot about what a Biden presidency would look like. A while ago, I called Barack Obama’s high school ...

So get this. A US-listed, Cayman Islands-domiciled, Chinese internet company is seeking to sell shares in China, so that it can become more internationalised. That’s among the bizarre rationales for NetEase Inc’s offering in Hong Kong, 20 years after the company first debuted on the Nasdaq. The elephant in the room, which gets the briefest of mentions in its 458-page ...

As companies and countries pour money into the effort to develop Covid-19 vaccines, timelines keep getting more ambitious and dates for delivering a workable immunisation against the virus keep moving up. Yet even with companies such as Moderna Therapeutics Inc and AstraZeneca Plc signalling rapid progress and already enrolling patients in mid-stage trials, it would be quite a feat if ...