The Business Times

Lionel Laurent

While Norges Bank Investment Management CEO Nicolai Tangen is a “huge” believer in the power of AI, he worries about rampant corporate valuations and the uncertain profit outlook for it.

Norway’s US$2 trillion wealth fund is sounding a warning on Iran

It is now planning for all sorts of potentially bleak scenarios as global economic resilience is tested

Markets already unsettled by the current fiscal health of the UK and France would not easily give the benefit of the doubt to political disrupters.

A UK-France populist alliance is no longer mere fantasy

Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella are pitching themselves as providential leaders who could work miracles if given half a chance

Knight Frank’s index of prime property in major global cities has registered a 140 per cent increase in Dubai .

The hedge fund set can’t resist the lure of Dubai

The exodus of talent from the UK and elsewhere is real; efforts to stem it need to be equally genuine

Retaliation requires unity – but even if the European Commission is taking a strident tone, the combination of geopolitical risk and weak economic growth does not generally inspire unity.
THE BOTTOMLINE

Tariff bullying is working too well in Europe

The lesson for the EU is it must address the dependencies that help the bullying work

A recent double-digit rise in crypto-exchange hacks and a wave of brazen crypto-executive kidnapping attempts has put the industry on edge and ramped up interest in security.

Crypto crime is the future; bank heists are history

A rise in physical attacks on digital-asset holders says a lot about the trade-offs of a cashless society

Giving up on a critical component of EVs might mean losing out on auto jobs for Europe.

Europe’s industrial nightmares are coming true

Gobs of government cash are unable to rouse Europe, with the Ukraine war and US-China competition still battering energy-intensive sectors

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