Explainer: what's it like to work at a company that goes into administration?
Apr 27, 2016 21:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views
All businesses hit choppy waters at times, and inevitably several end up drowning. High Street tailor Austin Reed followed hard on the heels of department store BHS this week, both paying the price for management failures...
Apple's slowdown highlights how growth-obsessed investors distort our view of value
Apr 27, 2016 21:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Apple has reported its first decline in revenues and income for the past 13 years. The market and media has reacted predictably with an 8% fall in Apples stock price. From an investors perspective, the decline in sales of...
How much does the UK actually pay to the EU?
Apr 27, 2016 21:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
For every 2 we send to Brussels, we get 1 back and it comes back with a tag on it on what we have to spend it on. Gisela Stuart, Labour MP and joint head of Vote Leave, speaking on BBC Radio 4s Today programme, April...
RBA policy decision next week likely to be a close call, odds of cut rise post CPI data
Apr 27, 2016 11:09 am UTC| Insights & Views
Data released earlier today showed Australias Q1 headline CPI figures came in at -0.2% q/q versus +0.2% expected and +0.4% previous. More concerning was that the key core inflation measures, Trimmed Mean CPI and Weighted...
Why Libya's collapse into chaos is not an argument against intervention
Apr 27, 2016 09:50 am UTC| Insights & Views
Libya is mired in crisis a shit show according to President Obama. Many have declared that the 2011 intervention shouldnt have been launched , and that the Libya campaign is reason enough to put an end to the practice of...
The effect racist rhetoric has on young Latinos, and why all Americans should care
Apr 27, 2016 09:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Luis is an upper-middle-class American-born Latino. When I interviewed him in 2008, he told me he had spent long hours, and a substantial amount of money, restoring a classic Chevy truck. One day, clad in grease-stained...
How Gulf states are coping with the new normal of low oil prices
Apr 27, 2016 08:23 am UTC| Insights & Views
The falling price of oil is beginning to have a real impact on the energy-fuelled economies of the Gulf. In 2014, after almost a decade of record highs, the price of a barrel of Brent crude began to collapse from a peak of...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight