Jefferies claims Western Alliance made ‘false’ statements over First Brands

Wall Street war of words escalates as heads of US investment bank hit out at Arizona-based lender

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026

Octopus’ £3.5bn trading group which . . .  values itself?

None of that pesky public market stuff

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026

Millions turn to AI for pension planning

Plus, Berkshire’s buyback, hedge funds rethink EM, and Michelangelo and Rodin at the Louvre

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026

Largest backer of UK water companies shuns sector amid struggles

US insurer Assured Guaranty has amassed $15bn of exposure to British utilities

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026

London is becoming a dip-in, dip-out city for the super-rich

Buyers of super-prime property are dropping their budgets and shifting their full-time base away from the capital. But it remains an important anchor

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026

Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg join Nvidia-backed AI start-up Nscale

Cloud provider raises $2bn in largest deal of its kind

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026

Which economies will pay the biggest price for the Iran war?

American consumers will feel pain at the petrol pump, but US is a net energy exporter unlike its European allies

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026

G7 discuss joint release of emergency oil reserves

Middle East war has triggered surge in crude prices that threatens global economy

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026

Gilt market slump deepens as traders bet on BoE rate rise

UK government bond market under renewed pressure as oil surpasses $100 a barrel

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026

Trump’s Venezuela strategy has failed in Iran

The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei has dashed the US president’s hope of picking Iran’s new leader

Posted on Monday March 09, 2026