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TikTok’s bizarre sale process gets even weirder

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Donald Trump extends the highly politicised auction by another 75 days

Apple gets caught in a trade-war nightmare

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The world’s most valuable firm is in an excruciating position

Does it pay for bosses to embrace nationalism?

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For some firms, apparently so

Athletics pays less than other sports. Michael Johnson wants to change that

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Grand Slam Track, a new series of races, plans a fan-friendly format

One of the world’s biggest mega-malls is worryingly empty

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Chinese shoppers are splurging on leisure, not designer brands

China and America are racing to develop the best AI. But who is ahead in using it?

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The race is closer than many in America would like to believe

What a refugee camp reveals about economics

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In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a month

Trump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th century

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The president jacks up tariffs on all countries, with particularly sharp rises for much of Asia

Are there any business winners in Trump 2?

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No, definitely not Tesla

Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining

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Reducing dependency on imports will be hard

Donald Trump’s plan for American carmaking is full of potholes

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Taxing imported motors may not create many new jobs at home

Barnes & Noble, a bookstore, is back in the business of selling books

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Toys, backpacks and bottled water are out

How safe is your DNA in a bankruptcy?

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23andMe’s demise raises thorny legal questions

Teams and extremes

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What space, submarines and polar research teach about teamwork

What space, submarines and polar research teach about teamwork

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Fed up with your colleagues? It could be worse

Can foreign investors learn to love China again?

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Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be ready to return

Big law’s capitulation to Donald Trump may be bad for business

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As well as being a moral failure

Big law’s capitulation to Donald Trump is a business failure

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Not just a moral one

Lobbyists hope that Trump will produce a bonanza

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They have their work cut out

China is the West’s corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?

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Foreign firms want Chinese boffins. America and China may have other plans

Trump’s endless trade threats come at a growing cost

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As “liberation day” nears, evidence of economic harm builds

ASML’s boss has a warning for Europe

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Christophe Fouquet threatens to head elsewhere if his firm is not better protected

Musk Inc is under serious threat

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The world’s richest man has lost focus. His competitors are taking advantage

Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpers

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When demand softens, the secondary market absorbs the pain

Should BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale learn from Chinese rivals?

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The mining industry is drifting apart into two distinct models

The horrors of shared docs

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Transparent, user-friendly, maddening

East Asia’s arms-makers are on the rise

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Rising demand at home and abroad is fuelling their growth

How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill

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Non-profit institutions are no help

The luxury industry is poised for a deal wave

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A proposed tie-up between Prada and Versace is just the start

East Asia’s armsmakers are on the rise

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Rising demand at home and abroad is fuelling their growth

Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering

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Investors may have misjudged which firms would thrive under the new administration

America’s democrats would be wise to embrace “abundance liberalism”

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Despite reasons for caution, there is much to commend in the work of Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson and Marc Dunkelman

Will Trump’s tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America?

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Companies from Asahi to TSMC are expanding production in the country—for now

The race to elect the next head of the Olympics is heating up

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The winner will be faced with growing competition and a changing media landscape

7-Eleven is still struggling to fend off its Canadian suitor

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The saga points to the sluggish pace of corporate reform in Japan

The importance of repetition in the workplace

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The importance of repetition in the workplace

America First may be a boon for Walmart’s Mexican business

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No, really

Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek

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But concerns over security, censorship and dependence on China remain

Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?

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Pity the continent’s exporters

Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument

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Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?

Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla

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The carmaker’s falling sales are sinking for other reasons too

Trump’s metals tariffs will cost American industry dearly

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Not least because the president is ratcheting up duties on Canada

China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions

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What might derail it?

Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon

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The prospect of peace is reshaping markets, in ways both ominous and promising

The world’s trustbusters hint that they want more deals

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Do they really?

Mistral, Europe’s biggest AI startup, is blowing hot

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Not being American or Chinese may now be a help, not a hindrance

The behaviour that annoys colleagues more than any other

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And the reasons to try to remain calm

As Germany’s defence stocks go ballistic, armsmakers are tooling up

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They are snapping up staff and sites from ailing firms

The pay gap between men and women won’t go away

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Our glass-ceiling index makes gloomy reading

Catering to protein-rich diets is a tasty business

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“High protein” is the new “low calorie”