Global & Business Views

Ola, an electric-scooter manufacturer, is trying to find out.

And disturbing evidence of how he destabilises reality for Americans.

And its economy is unusually well-defended against American politics.

Companies far and wide are feeling the effects of the conflict.

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

How can any sport combine fun, spectacle and viewers’ demand for more greenery?

The energy transition will mint new fortunes in surprising places

A new study measures its impact on women’s employment worldwide

As Facebook turns 20, social apps are being transformed

And some of it is making progress, writes Geoffrey Carr

Three forces will shape the business of generative AI

It could help boost human capital, and ultimately growth

As “chairman emeritus” the Fox and News Corp boss will still wield plenty of clout

It understands the value of education and manages its teachers well.

As the supply of debutantes dries up, etiquette experts explore a new market

Links between the region’s countries are getting stronger. But America’s loss is not entirely China’s gain.

What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory?

An index by our sister company rates the best, and worst, cities in which to live

Not all high-end brands will lose their shine

Markets can be split into three camps: early adjusters, bullet-dodgers and slow movers.

They bring enormous promise and peril. In the first of three special articles we explain how they work

On average, men can expect to spend 20 years kicking back.

So far, people seem remarkably blasé.

The tech giants are going all in on artificial intelligence. Each is doing it its own way.

Rice feeds more than half the world—but also fuels diabetes and climate change.

They are woke, broke and complicated. Businesses should take note.

A small, fertiliser-rich country sniffs the limits of its old model.

Some towns and suburbs will have to move to higher ground.

Passkeys? Post-quantum cryptography? Vertiports? Get up to speed here.

Gautam Adani takes on India’s essential, impossible job: redeveloping Dharavi.

Everything app. Or nothingburger.

Long lags in monetary policy are no argument for inaction.

Which will have more success?

It is economically rational for ambitious women to try as hard as possible to be thin.

Employers are wondering where the staff went.

A $700bn industry flirts with new materials, new countries—and new clients.

It is becoming a bit easier to peer inside firms.

The downturn is unlikely to lay waste to tech on the old continent again.

Behind a stagnation in users lies a stagnating product.

Soaring food and fuel prices are adding to pre-existing grievances.

Sports teams, like people, are moving south and west.

The pecking order of financial centres is changing.

With his threats to use the bomb, Russia's president has overturned the nuclear order.

A mild downturn may be followed by a painfully prolonged recovery.

Food shopping is expensive and inefficient, but change is coming.

The industry’s giants are slowing their hiring.

The continent needs places where anyone can picnic, hang out or even protest.

Why companies have become more prone to over-ordering stock.

But will they make a difference?

The chain has arrested its decline by closing stores and diversifying its business.

A once-furtive friendship has burst into the open.

Western allies are starting to split over the conditions for a peace.

Companies need to take it more seriously.

Chinese companies have made their mark on the African continent, in ways good and bad.

Journalists are struggling worst conditions since the cold war.

The energy crunch offers the state a chance to live up to its green reputation.

What Taiwan can learn from Ukraine about resisting invasion.

Red tape, taxes and gangsters keep small firms small.

As well as enormous volatility.

It is still too hard for small shareholders to be heard.

Turn the atolls themselves into power stations.

The past decade has been a golden one for private financial markets. As they become bigger they are being dramatically reshaped, says Matthew Valencia.

As defaults escalate, another shock threatens to hit the global economy.

Trade has been about growth and efficiency. Now other goals are competing for attention, says Soumaya Keynes.

Young Chinese are both patriotic and socially progressive. That mix is already changing their country, says Stephanie Studer, our China correspondent.

Young Chinese are both patriotic and socially progressive. That mix is already changing their country, says Stephanie Studer, our China correspondent.

Property investors are sitting on big losses.

Intermittent renewables and current mayhem in energy markets highlight the importance of firms that link up producers of power with faraway consumers.