Wall Street banks recover in China amid trading boom

China securities units of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan posted record profits last year

Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026

How BlueCrest’s Michael Platt fell foul of the UK taxman

The billionaire hedge fund manager has a history of making big bets. Not all of them have come off

Posted on Saturday July 04, 2026

UBS makes progress in its quest for mediocrity in the US

Bank is aiming for an 18 per cent pre-tax profit margin in the US wealth business by 2028

Posted on Saturday July 04, 2026

Lack of data puts England’s ‘mansion tax’ valuations at risk

Research finds around two-fifths of homes valued at £1.5mn-plus have no Land Registry sales records

Posted on Saturday July 04, 2026

Wealth managers use ‘deliberate obfuscation’ over fees, industry chief warns

Netwealth boss condemns failure as FCA urges use of ‘plain English’

Posted on Friday July 03, 2026

Ukraine striking Russian energy infrastructure at unprecedented rate

Kyiv’s intensified drone campaign is spurring Russia’s worst fuel crisis in decades

Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026

Returning to pre-Trumpian politics won’t save America

The opening of the Obama presidential library set off a wave of nostalgia for an era that is not coming back

Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026

How Bending Spoons built a $23bn tech empire from struggling brands

Nasdaq listing caps more than a decade of deals that transformed an Italian start-up into a global internet company

Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026

French push to exclude UK from EU defence spending backfires

Paris loses out on cheap loans due to strict eligibility criteria it had championed

Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026

Oil market opens up as retail traders pour in

CME Group to launch 10-barrel contract after Iran war triggers rush of bets on crude prices

Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026