UnitedHealth shares jumped 10 per cent in pre-market trading on Friday after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway snapped up a ...

Wang Huning has been variously described as “China’s crown theorist” and as Xi Jinping’s “ ideological tsar ”. But he is more than just an influential thinker. As one of just seven members of the ...

The departure to Italy of former executives at Pictet, one of Switzerland’s oldest private banks, has ignited a fierce national debate over tax, competitiveness and fairness.

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet today in Alaska for a high-stakes summit over the war in Ukraine. The summit, at a military base outside Anchorage, will be the ...

What’s the nickname of the 1923 FA Cup final, the first to be held at Wembley?

European investors are on track to pour record sums into emerging market exchange traded funds this year as they are attracted to the developing economies by stronger growth, cheaper valuations and ...

After promising to solve the Ukraine war throughout his campaign, the US president faces a moment of truth in Alaska ...

International buyers are moving in on Italy’s heel — lured by its whitewashed baroque towns, renovation opportunities and favourable tax regime ...

Even as international alarm mounts at the catastrophe in Gaza, global investors have found it convenient to sideline the issue. That is starting to look reckless — as the managers of Norway’s giant ...

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Also in today’s newsletter, Berkshire resumes sales of Apple shares and China warns against hoarding rare earths ...

Defence secretary John Healey has said the government is “ready to put UK boots on the ground” in Ukraine if a ceasefire is secured, as US President Donald Trump prepares to meet Russia’s Vladimir ...