Amid the Covid-19 crisis, three out of four Indians are experiencing their first recession. As might be expected, women are bearing the brunt of the pain — and the consequences could be long-lasting. A tiny elite of urban, educated women has benefited from the shift to remote work under lockdown: A recent study released by LinkedIn, based on internal data ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and members of his government risk significant political damage for their decision to introduce extremely tough restrictions on London and parts of the southeast England and withdraw a significant part of the social accommodations they had announced for Christmas gatherings. Yet as Johnson said in a widely watched briefing to the nation, “when the science ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon made no secret that he wanted to buy back some of the bank’s stock before the roaring equity market rally took it too far. “I hope we can do it before it goes way up,” he said in July. Five months later, right in the heart of the holiday season, the Federal Reserve made ...