Comfy shoes have never been so hot. L Catterton, the private equity fund backed by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE founder Bernard Arnault, is nearing an agreement to buy a majority stake in Birkenstock, maker of the famously clumpy sandals, for about 4 billion euros ($4.9 billion), Bloomberg News reported. This would be the second shoe to drop in ...

“All that’s required is the passage of time, an inner calm,” began a sentence in Warren Buffett’s annual letter to his followers. He was talking about the essentials of investing in a farm or business, but it felt like a metaphor for the collectively lonely and despairing moment that the world found itself in during the past year. With his ...

Human rights group Amnesty International has revoked Alexey Navalny’s prisoner of conscience status because of past xenophobic comments. The jailed Russian opposition leader’s anti-migrant statements and nationalist dalliances are well-known. He has never retracted those views. Yet history books are full of imperfect crusaders — proof we can’t always choose a model citizen to galvanise others in the battle for ...