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British weekly investment magazine that covers financial and economic news
The American author and journalist Ambrose Bierce said that “the gambling known as business looks down on the business known as gambling”. Yet it is a big business: the gambling sector could achieve global annual sales of $700bn by 2028,...
“The Force is strong with this one.” So said Darth Vader of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars film from 1977. The Sith Lord could equally have been talking about the demand among film memorabilia collectors for the franchise’s...
South Korea is a technological powerhouse, yet its retail sector long lagged behind. The blame lay with the chaebols, the family-controlled conglomerates such as Hyundai that emerged after the Korean War and came to dominate the economy....
The Strait of Hormuz is “effectively wide open”, says Javier Blas on Bloomberg. Backed by “an array of warships, drones, fighter jets and helicopters”, the US military is slowly prevailing in the battle for control of the waterway. Convoys,...