The Polish novelist on confronting history and her battles with the nationalist right

Group has halted work at number of mines due to pandemic

Finance minister Paulo Guedes has had his liberal economic agenda sidelined by emergency measures

The ESG spotlight has turned to how companies treat their employees, customers and suppliers

Dutch and French trade ministers say Covid-19 has focused minds on global trade and climate change

The coronavirus outbreak has accelerated the decline of America’s favourite shopping institution

Argentina’s Alberto Fernández signals country is in no state to contemplate new deals

Scientists co-operate on search for Covid-19 origins despite charges Beijing is withholding data

The president has turned his populist fire on big business, but is he attacking corporate greed or political opponents?

Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell says other countries could face big ‘second wave’

The government needs to address concerns over the return to normal life

European aerospace group confirms it will slash output of popular A320 single-aisle jet

‘We will be a smaller company for a while,’ says chief David Calhoun

Paper released by UK regulators homes in on tactic known as latency arbitrage

NYSE owner did not ‘lose its mind’, says Jeffrey Sprecher

US benchmark S&P 500 can drop a maximum 7 per cent before first protection kicks in

Hedge fund calls for court investigation into 2018 transfer of MyTheresa

This riveting account of how a piratical corporation subjugated India resonates with today’s global capitalism

Destocking is at an end and global consumption is expected to rise this year

Hundreds will lose jobs in £1.2bn turnround plan even as Jingye says 3,000 will be saved

Incoming CEO tells investors and carrier’s 96,000 staff that he will not duck hard decisions

Former chancellor urges lenders to keep credit flowing and not just weather the storm

Medical community warns of dangers from use of cleaning agent as internal treatment

Price crash provokes supply cuts but ‘all bets are off’ if second wave of pandemic hits

Railroad commissioner had called for using decades-old state rules to reduce output

Dive into negative prices triggered pullback that helps set scene for rebound

President’s pet project holds line on output growth despite oil crisis and mammoth losses

Cash from successful claims could reach bank accounts by end of the month

The default product of anxious idleness has been sidelined during pandemic

Investor group led by the CofE launches database to track tailings dams after Brazil disaster

Move boosts chemicals group’s growing sports investment portfolio

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

It would be the underlying law and EU treaty that needs changing, not the ruling

Another on-demand transport app is making a move into payments to expand the existing relationship with its customers (and subsequent margins that it makes from serving them). Bird today announced the launch of Bird Pay, a service that will let people use its app to purchase items from local participating businesses alongside renting scooters. The service […]

No surprise, really, that 5G smartphone sales are on the way up. Frankly, there’s really no other way to go, according to the latest numbers from NPD’s Mobile Phone Tracking. The firm noted that 5G handsets accounted for less than 1% of total sales in the U.S. The hurdles are also what you’d expect: namely, […]

M&A activity has generally slowed down in the weeks since the novel coronavirus took a grip on the world, but there have been some pockets of activity in the tech industry when the price is right or when the divestment/acquisition just makes sense. The world of messaging brings us the latest development in that theme: SAP, […]

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I am approaching retirement age with very little pension to live on

What are the alternatives to court for a divorcing couple?

At its annual Universe conference today, Microsoft -owned GitHub announced a couple of new products, as well as the general availability of a number of tools that developers have been able to test for the last few months. The two announcements that developers will likely be most interested in are the launch of GitHub’s first […]

Commercial real estate owners, brokers and landlords have collectively made many hundreds of billions of dollars a year in recent years as the economy zipped along. Now, they’re getting clobbered by the pandemic-fueled economic crisis. Worse, their industry may be forever changed by it. To state the obvious, extracting rent from nearly anyone right now […]

Twitter is making it possible for developers and researchers to study the public conversation around COVID-19 in real time with an update to its API platform. The company is introducing a new COVID-19 stream endpoint to those participating in Twitter Developer Labs — a program that offers access to new API endpoints and other features […]

Investment trusts pass the longevity test and could provide the answer 

Vaping is a controversial habit: it certainly has its downsides, but anecdotally it’s a fantastic smoking cessation aid. The thing is, until behavioral scientists know a bit more about who does it, when, how much and other details, its use will continue to be something of a mystery. That’s where the PuffPacket comes in. Designed […]

Nvidia Chief Scientist Bill Dally has released an open-source ventilator hardware design he developed in order to address the shortage resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic. The mechanical ventilator design developed by Dally can be assembled quickly, using off-the-shelf parts with a total cost of around $400 — making it an accessible and affordable alternative […]

Xiaomi today launched a new e-commerce service in India that allows people in the nation to easily browse and order its handsets and other products from nearby physical retail stores as the Chinese giant rushes to kickstart its sales in its biggest overseas market. Dubbed Mi Commerce, the service allows people to locate nearby stores […]

Sonos has introduced a trio of new hardware today, adding three new smart speakers to its lineup, including the Sonos Arc soundbar that includes Dolby Atmos support, as well as Sonos Five, the next version of its Sonos Play:5 speaker, and a third-generation Sonos Sub. All of these will require the new S2 app that […]