Investors in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc are betting that an activist intervention will add up to big gains. Shares in the retailer rose as much as 86%, the most ever, in early trading after Ryan Cohen, a co-founder of Chewy Inc and the chairman of GameStop Corp, disclosed that he had taken a 9.8% stake. Cohen’s investment company RC ...

Marc Rich, the infamous godfather of the modern commodity trading industry, thought he could squeeze the global metals market at will. It was a time of swashbuckling trading in the City of London — regulation was lax and traders did as they saw fit. In 1992, he targeted the zinc market, amassing a huge position on the London Metal Exchange. ...

  In private Telegram groups and on Russian Twitter, Russian-speakers around London share outrage over Vladimir Putin’s war on a neighbouring country and brother nation and the wanton destruction it has brought. Sardonically, they refer to the botched battle plan and military snafus in English as a BlitzCringe. They’re done with Russia and yet they can’t be free of it. ...