If some of the most august independent analysts in the business feel their future lies inside a large US broker, does any research boutique have a future? There is still hope. Autonomous Research, the London-based firm set up in 2009 by Stuart Graham, the former head of Merrill Lynch & Co.’s European bank-stocks team, agreed to be taken over by ...

There’s no denying it now. The global electronics industry is in a funk, and the world’s biggest manufacturer has the wounds to prove it. Foxconn Technology Group aims to cut $2.9 billion in costs next year, Bloomberg News’s Debby Wu reported, citing an internal company memo that she had seen. You may know Foxconn as the assembler of iPhones for ...

Bangkok may be among the world’s top 10 tourism destinations, but for overseas investors it’s about as popular as a beach holiday in the Arctic. Foreigners sold a net $8.7 billion or so of Thai stocks this year, the most since data began in the late 1990s. On the face of it, that’s a puzzle. Thailand has been something of ...