Bloomberg In the country that pioneered the world’s first industrial revolution in the 18th century, its latest one is looking very much on hold. The global shift towards robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) across advanced economies is currently in a go-slow phase in the UK — where both Covid-19 and Brexit have hampered progress. That threatens to harm Britain’s competitiveness ...

Bloomberg Billions of dollars could be on the way to Sand Hill Road this week, home base for Silicon Valley’s venture capital elite, after a string of initial public offerings. Venture firms netted handsome returns on paper for their early investments. While the firms mostly won’t be able to sell their shares until lockup periods expire, proceeds from exits could ...

Bloomberg The consensus among equity strategists is that the European market is going nowhere for the rest of the year after their brisk rebound in the first half of 2020, although predictions range from Deutsche Bank AG calling for an 18% gain to Commerzbank AG’s forecast of an 11% slide. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index will end 2020 at a ...