Finance

A succession of private equity firms are going public. But another group has been raising capital more discreetly — by...

Will the Federal Reserve signal an interest rate rise in March? After another month of hot inflation data, the US...

Despite having a masters degree and a stable job, a middle-class lifestyle has felt increasingly unobtainable in recent years for...

Cathie Wood’s flagship Ark fund is on the cusp of being overtaken by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway in the post-pandemic...

The US is holding talks with Qatar and other large gas exporters to plan contingency measures in case a Russian...

Bitcoin dropped to a six-month low on Saturday, extending a steep fall recorded in the previous session as the cryptocurrency...

Xu Li is a fan of Yang Guo, the protagonist of bestselling Chinese novel The Return of the Condor Heroes, famed...

Sterling’s muted reaction to the crisis engulfing Boris Johnson is a sign that the UK currency may be starting to...

Oil has rallied strongly in early 2022, surpassing a seven-year high this week as traders rushed to lock in supply...

The extraordinary rally in markets, since their plunge in the very first stages of the coronavirus pandemic, was based on...

Not to be alarmist, but something truly bizarre happened in the financial markets this week: For a brief period, investors...

Global equities headed for one of their worst weeks of the past year, with a sharp downturn in tech stocks...

Paul Myners, the opposite of a conventional City grandee, took great delight in boardroom battles. While he made a fortune...

If a windfall of a few thousand pounds landed in your lap, would you pay off a chunk of the...

Buying or selling a house is said to be one of the most stressful life events — but a blockchain-enabled...

Bitkub, Thailand’s biggest cryptocurrency trading company, plans to expand its operations into other south-east Asian countries this year, said founder...

The Federal Reserve has for the first time launched a period of debate and public comment on the introduction of...

France’s TotalEnergies has voiced support for targeted sanctions against gas revenue flows in Myanmar, in a policy shift that campaigners...

BHP will be removed from the UK’s blue-chip FTSE 100 index next week after investors in the world’s biggest miner...

Russia’s central bank has proposed outlawing all cryptocurrency operations in the country, one of the world’s biggest centres for mining...