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Central banks repeatedly set the stage for the next boom and bust cycle, fuelled by growing debt

Sensible and targeted state intervention can help capitalism to thrive post-crisis

Sector across region hit by fears of panicked mass withdrawals due to pandemic

Harsher medicine this time round would put asset prices on a better long-term footing

‘We are ready to go further,’ says French minister after issuing temporary prohibitions

Every major asset class has been disrupted

S&P 500 closes lower as investors await more evidence of progress against virus and extra stimulus

AMF chairman cites uncertainty around dividends and coming downgrades to credit ratings

Volatility gauges for both regions show sharp falls from historic highs in March

Player values tumble as Europe’s top teams prepare to cut spending after pandemic weakens revenues

Tag Heuer’s digital chief sees connected watches as a point of entry to the mechanical models

Two- and five-year yields hit record lows as futures investors anticipate negative rates

Regional trading blocs would better align mutual interests and provide stability

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

Promises of huge growth are yet to materialise — but there’s huge potential

I’ve drawn up a list of badly beaten-up stocks worthy of a punt

Service would allow retail investors to place own orders on market

Smart meter group’s IPO boosts hopes of fundraising uptick after lacklustre 2019

As world markets take a turn for the worse, investors use ETFs as they hope to profit from any bounceback 

Spanish and Italian bans on short selling follow US Federal Reserve’s liquidity injection

Political goodwill for Spire Healthcare could act as a tailwind once virus impact eases

New rules require banks to stick with a single rate after introductory deals

Lockdown presents a golden educational opportunity, particularly if you work in investment

AskRobin, an Estonia-founded fintech that operates a financial services marketplace for “underbanked” customers in Latin America, has picked up $1.7 million in funding. The seed round is backed by VC funds Change Ventures, Vereeni Early Stage Fund, BENE Asia Capital, and Lemonade Stand. In addition, a number of tech entrepreneurs from Estonia participated, such as […]

Cuckoo Internet is a new U.K. startup that aims to disrupt the U.K. broadband market. It has now raised £470,000 in seed funding, which includes funding from work.fund, a new Silicon Valley fund operator fund led by Bart Macdonald (Sapling founder). Other investors include Lorin van Nuland (early investor in Betterment), Edward Campbell-Harris (Bulb early […]

Many zombie companies will fail, no matter how much is sprayed around by the Fed

As coronavirus-hit financial markets continue to flip-flop in the wake of bad news followed by pockets of hope, a startup that aims to introduce ordinary consumers to investing has raised a big round of funding. New York-based Stash, which provides a mobile-first route to managing money through investment — as well as retirement, custodial and […]

Traditionally dominated by big players like Adobe and Autodesk, the world of design has been flush with a newer wave of startups that are creating collaboration spaces and new cloud-based tools designed to address the needs of creatives. Today, two of those players are combining. Dribbble, an online community for designers that lets them post […]

Suppliers that exploited cheaper labour hit by big wage bills for shuttered plants

‘Stock price is too high’, writes outspoken chief executive

Ali Amin-Javaheri grew up in the chemicals business. His father had worked for Iran’s state-owned chemical company and when the family fled the country in the nineteen eighties during the Iran-Iraq war, they first settled in Houston where employers welcomed the senior Amin-Jahaveri’s experience. Houston in the 80s was dominated by the petrochemicals industry and […]

First New York listing by a Chinese company since Luckin Coffee debacle

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TiVo today is launching a new device, its would-be Fire TV Stick competitor known as the TiVo Stream 4K. First announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, this $50 Android TV-powered HDMI dongle is TiVo’s attempt to insert itself into the streaming media device market. The new dongle arrives at a time when TiVo […]

Quarter after quarter, familiar stories have appeared. The smartphone market, once seemingly bulletproof, has suffered. The list of factors is long, and I’ve written about them ad nauseam here, but the CliffsNotes version is: costs are too high, innovation is too incremental and most people already own a device that will be plenty good for […]

We have no real sense of how to value stocks in this environment

The hum of the helicopters needs to start getting louder

The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that to deliver educational content has raised some funding to fuel its next stage of growth. Udemy, which provides a marketplace offering some 150,000 different online learning courses from business analytics to ukulele […]

India has emerged as one of the fastest growing smartphone markets in the last decade, reporting growth each quarter even as handset shipments slowed or declined elsewhere globally. But the world’s second largest smartphone is beginning to feel the coronavirus heat, too. The Indian smartphone market grew by a modest 4% year-over-year in the quarter […]

Ali Amin-Javaheri grew up in the chemicals business. His father had worked for Iran’s state-owned chemical company and when the family fled the country in the nineteen eighties during the Iran-Iraq war, they first settled in Houston where employers welcomed the senior Amin-Jahaveri’s experience. Houston in the 80s was dominated by the petrochemicals industry and […]

During the waning days of the first dot-com boom, some of the biggest names in venture capital invested in marketplaces and directories whose sole function was to consolidate information and foster transparency in industries that had remained opaque for decades. The thesis was that thousands of small businesses were making specialized products consumed by larger […]

Quarter after quarter, familiar stories have appeared. The smartphone market, once seemingly bulletproof, has suffered. The list of factors is long, and I’ve written about them ad nauseam here, but the CliffsNotes version is: costs are too high, innovation is too incremental and most people already own a device that will be plenty good for […]

Companies lean heavily on equity in effort to dent blow from coronavirus

Harbr co-founder Anthony Cosgrove has been working with data for over 15 years, so he has an inkling of some of the problems associated with pulling data together in a way that makes it easy for others to consume, whether internally or externally. Like many entrepreneurs before him, he decided to start a company to […]

During the waning days of the first dot-com boom, some of the biggest names in venture capital invested in marketplaces and directories whose sole function was to consolidate information and foster transparency in industries that had remained opaque for decades. The thesis was that thousands of small businesses were making specialized products consumed by larger […]

One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities. Hoodline, a San Francisco-based startup, is trying to tackle this with a unique focus on news about neighborhood retail corridors. The startup has built up a network of news on about two-dozen neighborhoods across San Francisco as a sort of Trojan horse into a larger platform of hyperlocal listings and markets.