To the moon: SpaceX’s generational payday

Who’s positioned for a windfall from the listing, and why it’s historic in more ways than one

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026

UK housebuilders suffer £8bn hit from Iran war

Share prices have fallen sharply as hedge funds bet the industry will bear the brunt of the economic fallout

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026

Big Europe and Asian private equity health funds merge to defy AI disruption

Global Healthcare Opportunities and CBC Group say $21bn investment manager will be world’s largest in sector

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026

Hg spins out €500mn of assets from €19bn software group Visma

Move by private equity owner comes as long-awaited London IPO of group is shelved

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026

Monaco is trying to shed its shady tax-haven image

The principality has become younger, safer, richer — and far less boring

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026

China’s Xi warns of ‘law of the jungle’ in Putin meeting

Russian and Chinese leaders meet days after Donald Trump’s Beijing summit

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026

EU mulls Merkel or Draghi as possible Putin whisperer

Momentum gathers for Europe to appoint its own representative as US-led talks on Ukraine stall

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026

The Gulf crisis may just be starting

Oil futures markets are sanguine, but history shows expectations have often been disappointed

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026

NHS to trial GPs no longer handing out ‘sick notes’

Doctors to test four pilot schemes as ministers seek to reduce the 2.8mn signed off with long-term sickness

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026

London loses its lustre

The city has been hit by successive shocks and diminishing growth. But the rest of the UK needs it

Posted on Wednesday May 20, 2026