Author: Times Europe

Pearls, it is said, represent purity. They may soon stand for something else: business dynamism. In Greenville, South Carolina, two

The Plaza Hotel has New York glamour in spades. Sitting at a corner of Central Park, it was the setting

Working on a trading desk is perhaps the closest an office job can get to a sport. Focus and reflexes

The EU is no stranger to overcapacity. Its economic landscape once featured butter mountains, milk lakes and other landmarks of

On a regular Tuesday morning, a large crowd has gathered outside a grocery store in Xuchang, a city of 4m

Trade unions rarely look to corporate raiders for inspiration. Yet the Strategic Organising Centre (SOC), a coalition of North American

The year is 2034. America’s “magnificent seven” firms comprise almost the entirety of the country’s stockmarket. For Jensen Huang, the

It is, by now, a familiar story. A metal previously only traded in a sleepy corner of commodity markets becomes

In economic terms, an asset has value because an owner might derive future benefits from it. Some assets, like cryptocurrencies,