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Silicon Valley wants to escape the power grids, water shortages and zoning laws throttling its data centres by launching them into orbit. But Low Earth Orbit is no frictionless void, and moving servers to space may just trade one crisis for another.
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Repeated heatwaves are no longer a seasonal inconvenience for Europe's economies. From lost labour productivity to rising food prices and multi-billion-euro damage bills, extreme heat is emerging as a structural drag on growth across the continent.
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Algorithmic feeds have quietly become a dominant force in setting asset prices and mobilising political movements, from GameStop to India's Cockroach Janata Party, while regulators still lack the tools to measure how virality converts into capital and power.
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After decades of underinvestment, scientific setbacks and fading industry interest, psychiatry is showing signs of life again. Eli Lilly's acquisition of AtaiBeckley, worth up to $3.8 billion, signals renewed hope that the future of depression treatment may look very different from the past.
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AI capital expenditure has emerged as the last major engine of global demand, propping up growth even as trade wars fragment the world economy. Whether that engine can keep pace with its scale and financing is the open question.
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A jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster liable for illegal monopolisation in April 2026. The case is a study in how vertical integration converts dominance in one business into control over an entire industry.
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Andy Burnham spent a decade fighting Westminster from the outside. Now he runs it, and his Greater Manchester record, not his rhetoric, is the best guide to what a Burnham government will actually do.
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Machine learning can spot economic shifts weeks before official statistics catch up, but its black-box reasoning means the most reliable forecasts still come from economists working alongside AI, not being replaced by it.
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New Fed chair Kevin Warsh was expected to bring a dovish, rate-cutting sensibility to the central bank. Instead, his first meeting delivered the most hawkish surprise markets have seen in years, with traders now pricing in the Fed's first hike since 2023.
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With the old black box monopolies breaking apart, private capital has emerged to underwrite the next era of European warfare.
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Argentina's disinflation looks like a policy triumph on paper, but the currency framework enabling it may be quietly rebuilding the fragility it was designed to end.
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A $200 million upfront payment, with milestones potentially taking the deal's total value to $1.9 billion, gives AstraZeneca exclusive rights to develop and commercialise an experimental COPD treatment outside China. More importantly, it highlights a broader shift in how Big Pharma is sourcing innovation.
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EQT needed four bids to take Intertek private, and the sequence reveals less about price than about who now sets the value of a FTSE 100 company, and why London keeps losing profitable firms to private buyers.
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China's factories are shipping more than they have in years, driven by an AI-fuelled tech boom. Yet second-quarter growth still slowed to 4.3%, its weakest in decades outside the pandemic, a reminder that strong exports don't always mean a strong economy.
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Global PE fundraising is rising but the number of funds closing is collapsing. The industry is not recovering. It is concentrating, and the zombie firm data suggests the structural shift is already irreversible for much of the market.
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South Korea's shipping cartel ran for 15 years across three major trade routes. The case is a textbook study in how cartels form, how they enforce discipline, and why concentrated industries make collusion so hard to prevent.
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Apollo has gatecrashed Castlelake's hard-won takeover of easyJet with a higher offer backed by the airline's board, setting up a bidding war over one of Europe's best-known low-cost carriers just months after a bruising first half of the year.
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The Iran war sent oil prices soaring and hit every major economy at once, yet the Fed, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank all responded differently. The divergence turned not on the shock itself but on each bank's headroom, growth outlook, and framework for interpreting supply-driven inflation.
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Vertex's $10 billion acquisition of Crinetics is about far more than adding another drug to its portfolio. It is a strategic bet on an endocrinology platform that could fuel the company's next phase of growth.
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The Bank of Japan has raised its policy rate five times since 2024, yet the yen just hit a forty year low. Here is what two years of tightening have actually changed, and what is likely to happen next.
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