Peter Berezin at BCA Research, who has the lowest 2025 price target for the S&P 500 among analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, said in mid-February that he expects the index to close out this year at about ...

In recent years, retail punters have been an important market segment for professional investors to watch. They were swift to buy the (much larger) dip after the Covid shock five years ago, jumping in ...

A British company holding two Pacific Ocean exploration licences is up for sale after its Norwegian parent went bankrupt ...

The US has approved Capital One’s $35.5bn takeover of Discover Financial in a deal that will merge two of America’s largest ...

While superhero franchises flag, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ shows the industry has finally cracked the formula for translating popular games into films ...

To buy big or to shop shrewdly? Eye-catching blooms or plantings to nurture? Such are the questions many a couple will ...

If any institution is equipped to stand up to the Trump administration it is Harvard, given its $53bn endowment, establishment clout and in-house legal brainpower. The presidents of Princeton and ...

“The confounding part of Mark’s testimony is that he’s trying to contradict statements today that he made a decade ago as these acquisitions were being contemplated in real time,” said Lee Hepner, ...

Lang Lang’s reputation is as a showman, but the programmes that he chooses for his recitals do not bear that out. During the pandemic he focused on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, as weighty a challenge ...

Canada’s Mark Carney has picked up the gauntlet. Britain’s Keir Starmer prefers to look the other way. Japan and South Korea ...

The former Goldman Sachs banker on the impact of US tariffs, and his role in structuring Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending plan ...

2025 pointed to a pick-up following the city’s lengthy post-pandemic malaise — but the top-of-year glow now has to be filtered through a new lens ...