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The five biggest market developments of 2025
Looking back on a rollercoaster year for investors
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What pain at the edge of America’s labour market signals
In the past it has foretold wider weakness. This time may be different
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How to interpret the pain at the edge of America’s labour market
In the past it has foretold wider weakness. This time may be different
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Watch who you’re calling childless
Women in America are having as many babies over their lifetimes as they did two decades ago
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4
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Meet the American investors rushing into Congo
They are taking on war, corruption and China
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This Christmas, raise a glass to concentrated market returns
A surprisingly large share of companies lag far behind their former greatness
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Where America’s most prominent short-sellers are placing their bets
We interview three financial sleuths
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Crypto’s real threat to banks
The industry is supplanting Wall Street’s privileged position on the American right
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Germany has a lawyer problem
Its endless bureaucratic rules trap would-be reformers
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What a stiff drink says about China’s economy
The baijiu business is the latest to be struck by “involution”
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America’s bond market is quiet—almost too quiet
Scott Bessent has a cunning plan
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11
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Wall Street is drooling over bank mergers
The world’s most fragmented financial industry faces dramatic change
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11
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Asia’s inexpensive AI stocks should worry American investors
Tech mania looks very different in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
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Which economy did best in 2025?
Our annual ranking returns
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AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences
To understand why, consider the side-blotched lizard
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Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?
Communist Party officials think so
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Bitcoin has plunged. Strategy Inc is an early victim
It holds 3% of the world’s total supply
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American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure
In time, though, its tankers will find new routes
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Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital
And with Sweden embarking on a borrowing spree, it is a bond trader’s paradise
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Which Kevin Hassett would lead the Federal Reserve?
He was once a right-of-centre tax expert. He has become a partisan hack
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20
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How to spot a bubble bursting
Forget valuations. Look out for search-engine hits and fund managers getting fired
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21
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Why worries about American job losses are overstated
Bosses, investors, policymakers—all are fearful of a jobs-pocalypse
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Is America’s jobs market nearing a cliff?
Bosses, investors and policymakers are worried, but there are reasons for hope
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25
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Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
A robotaxi boom is coming. The impacts might be broader than you expect
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25
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China’s property market is (somehow) worsening
Government remedies are not up to the job
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25
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Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force
Socialist employment restrictions will be swept away
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25
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One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis
If voters dislike big numbers, there is a purely nominal fix
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25
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How to short the bubbliest firms
Private markets present fearsome challenges
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25
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Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
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Why investors are increasingly fatalistic
Everyone knows share prices have a long way to fall. Even so, getting out now might be a mistake
