Higher interest rates have discouraged homeowners from borrowing to undertake large refurbishment projects. Mortgage rates have also curtailed home sales, holding back spending on improvements when ...

Bringing making back into universities, including in the humanities, is an invitation to rethink what literacy means in an era of digital automation. This is not about turning literature departments ...

Median total pay for S&P bosses rose to $19mn last year. The jump in median chief executive pay was higher than a 7.2 per cent rise in 2023, according to Farient Advisors, a pay consultancy, and ...

The challenge of finding the perfect bag was well articulated by a stylish music producer friend: “They’re not clothes, they’re technical gear. You’re going to have them for years — like glasses — so ...

The trend has implications for the role of nuclear energy as more renewables come online, as well as electricity prices in Europe. There are also questions over its impact on the health of France’s ...

Complaints over state interference at Boğaziçi University trigger unrest that mirrors conflicts in US and Hungary ...

The offending figure is from Sunday’s edition of Daily Spark, an often-interesting newsletter by Apollo Global Management’s chief economist Torsten Sløk — the man whose 2024 Fed calls were equivocally ...

The UK’s statistics office has delayed the release of retail spending numbers that were due to be published on Friday so it can carry out further “quality assurance” work on the data. Retail sales ...

S&P Global has held its rating on US government debt, saying the revenues from President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies will offset the impact of the administration’s signature tax and ...

SoftBank’s billionaire founder Masayoshi Son held talks with Intel’s chief executive about buying its faltering contract chipmaking business in the weeks before Monday’s announcement that the Japanese ...

With 7 in 10 Labour members opposed to proscription, Keir Starmer faces a growing revolt — and legal challenge ...

Canada’s Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is on track for a comfortable victory in a by-election that will allow him to re-enter parliament, where he is set to be a thorn in the side of Liberal ...