Business
The economy
‘Communist Lunatic’: Trump, Wall Street billionaires rattled by shock New York result
Zohran Mamdani’s crushing win over Andrew Cuomo in the New York mayor primary has triggered the president, while Wall Street’s elite are starting to panic.
- by Sridhar Natarajan and Laura Nahmias
Latest
Trump has helped make his neighbours richer than ever. They aren’t pleased
Donald Trump has turned this Florida island into a MAGA hotspot. But the old guard don’t like the new vibe.
- by David Segal
Opinion
Global economy
New York is flirting with an economic catastrophe
New York has always been the most ruthlessly capitalist city on Earth, a place where money could be made quicker than anywhere else. But a mayoral race has put that at risk, and we could all suffer.
- by Matthew Lynn
Opinion
Trump's White House
‘Afraid of his own shadow’: The split that could finally take down Trump’s old enemy
US Fed chair Jerome Powell has been fighting to hold on to his job since Donald Trump returned to the White House. It just got a lot harder.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Can this ugly elf make China cool again?
In China’s campaign to win over hearts and minds worldwide, its latest weapon is a fanged, bunny-eared, arguably quite ugly plushie.
- by Vivian Wang
Dark clouds gather over Australia’s red earth riches
China’s voracious appetite for iron ore has kept the Australian economy prosperous for decades. But demand is starting to cool.
- by Simon Johanson and Nick Toscano
Opinion
Middle East at war
Oil prices have jumped. Do you need to run to the petrol station?
There’s no crisis in oil markets yet, but your bill at the bowser might creep up.
- by Millie Muroi
Opinion
Investing
Meet the EMILLIs, our everyday millionaires. Australia has plenty of them
The cost-of-living crisis may have left us feeling economically challenged, but relative to the rest of the world a lot of us are definitely lucky.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Middle East at war
Fight to the death: The world has to prepare for a Middle East energy storm
Markets are acting like the Middle East conflict will blow over as seen so often in the past. But this time it’s different. Does Trump understand what he did?
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Opinion
Trade wars
Trump’s trade war is starting to bite China’s economy
China’s economy is holding up better than expected in this early phase of the trade war, but first cracks are emerging.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
AI
The world of work has been transformed. What happens next is still up to us
What sort of society do we want to live in when artificial intelligence hits its stride? That is the conversation we need now.
- by Aruna Sathanapally
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