FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

Radioactive ores have become a proliferation risk in the land that supplied material for second world war atomic bombs

Decision comes against backdrop of renewed volatility in energy prices

Takaichi Sanae’s economic agenda bears little resemblance to her mentor’s

High government debt makes a common European safe asset unlikely

Investors are embracing shorter-term corporate debt, locking in elevated yields while limiting their exposure to interest-rate volatility and market swings.

Lloyds Banking Group Chief Executive Officer Charlie Nunn speaks on Bloomberg Television after the lender's second-quarter earnings beat estimates and the bank unveiled a blueprint to help boost non-banking revenues by 2030. "We've got some exciting growth to do," Nunn says. (Source: Bloomberg)

A new age of geoeconomics appears to have dawned — one in which trade policy bows to the demands of strategic rivalry rather than the promise of mutual advantage. Is this shift a belated recognition of reality or a historic mistake? I’d say mostly the latter.