Pensions watchdog in strategic shift following government push for ‘megafunds’
Regulator to change approach to focus on systemic risk as consolidation increases
Regulator to change approach to focus on systemic risk as consolidation increases
Bitcoin has soared to an all-time price high, but will it continue? Advocates of the world’s largest cryptocurrency hope its value will continue to soar when Donald Trump returns to the White House.
When the long awaited inquiry into the Captain Tom Foundation charity was published, it did not bring good news for the Ingram-Moore family – or the reputation of charities more generally.
Duncan Andison/ShutterstockAs climate change speeds up and resources become more scarce, businesses are realising that innovation and sustainable practices are becoming necessities rather than merely nice things to do.
Inflation has been stubborn in recent months. Now, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s tariffs loom as a potential risk.
The lawyer Jamieson Greer is set to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, a crucial position given the president-elect’s threats to impose tariffs on imports from other countries.
Stay jolly. DmyTo/IStock/Getty Images PlusThe holiday shopping season is now here, and Americans are ready to splurge. The average U.S. shopper expects to spend more than US$1,000 on gifts for Christmas and other winter holidays this year, surveys show.
Stay jolly. DmyTo/IStock/Getty Images PlusThe holiday shopping season is now here, and Americans are ready to splurge. The average U.S. shopper expects to spend more than US$1,000 on gifts for Christmas and other winter holidays this year, surveys show.
Having established themselves as the official opposition, social democrats PASOK are trying to build on their momentum in the polls by launching an attack on the government over its handling of the economy.
The projected increase in extreme climate events in the coming decades is likely to exacerbate the existing productivity and demographic challenges facing Europe. We study the dynamic, medium-run macroeconomic effects of heatwaves, droughts and floods in 1160 EU regions through the lens of a local projections, difference in difference framework. Summer heatwaves and droughts lower medium-term output, but the impact from floods depends on regional income levels. High-income regions witness reconstruction activity, less wealthy regions do not.