Business

Did you live in two states in 2024? Here’s how to navigate filing taxes in multiple states
Doing your taxes when you live in two states in one year means figuring out your residency, filing two returns, ...

Chinese phones dominate Southeast Asia—but it’s ‘now or never’ for these budget brands to go premium
As the smartphone market matures, Chinese brands like Oppo are looking for growth by selling better phones, instead of more ...

Tesla starts 2025 with sharp drop in sales in Europe
Sales down 45% in January for EV maker led by Elon Musk

Unilever chief Hein Schumacher to step down
Consumer goods group says chief financial officer Fernando Fernandez will take over

Buffett’s bet sparks surge in Japan trading house shares
The trading houses have outpaced the Nikkei 225 since Buffett’s investment was announced. Read More

Wealthy millennials are spending thousands on Jaguar Land Rover monthly subscriptions as flexibility becomes the newest form of luxury
Jaguar Land Rover’s investment vehicle has created two startups that are attracting young, wealthy drivers. Read More

BP to abandon pledge to cut oil and gas output as boss fights for group’s survival
Auchincloss must convince activist investor Elliott Management he can turn around troubled oil major

D1 Capital’s bet on European turnarounds aids its own recovery
Daniel Sundheim’s hedge fund was under water but made a windfall from Siemens Energy and Rolls-Royce trades

Big London-listed companies push for higher executive pay
International groups seek to capitalise on investors’ ‘change in tone’ towards bigger payouts

How will Germany’s Merz build his coalition government?
CDU leader has vowed to seal negotiations with the Social Democrats by April

The London Stock Exchange has been left behind by its parent
While its equities platform suffers an exodus, the LSEG itself is a financial success story — with an identity problem

How the state is propping up China’s housing market
As the government struggles to ease a real estate crisis, state-owned developers have been buying up land

Trump team seeks to toughen Biden’s chip controls over China
Washington wants to stop China from building a chip sector that could boost its AI and military capabilities. Trump could ...

Right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino will join Kash Patel as deputy FBI director; says he wants agents who investigated Trump fired
The Justice Department has already demanded a list from the FBI of the thousands of agents who participated in investigations into the Jan. ...

Elon Musk’s directive to federal workers to explain their productivity or get the ax could take them 165,000 hours of their workdays to complete
The time needed for all federal workers to reply to Musk’s email could cost the government about $8.5 million in ...

US drives Ukraine war measure through UN with Russian backing
Security Council resolution calling for ‘swift end’ to conflict deals further blow to western unity

FTSE 350 on track to miss 40% target for female executives
Government-backed review says pace of change in top roles has ‘slowed’ among UK’s biggest companies

Only 1% of UK workers off sick find jobs within 6 months, report says
Think-tank’s findings show need to change financial incentives to help ill and disabled people return to employment

Trump takes a victory lap on Apple’s $500 billion U.S. investment, but one analyst calls it ‘completely unrealistic’
Another analyst said, “Cook continues to prove that he is 10% politician and 90% CEO,” referring to the Apple chief ...

Trump says tariffs on Mexico, Canada ‘going forward’ next month
Trump also indicated he was pushing forward with a plan for so-called reciprocal tariffs. Read More

Europe needs Friedrich Merz to succeed
The first moves by Germany’s chancellor-designate are bold and encouraging

S&P 500 notches a comeback after Friday blowout marks its worst trading session of the year
All major indexes fell as much as 1.5% early Monday. Read More

EU and UK in talks about Europe-wide defence funding amid fear of US pullback
Donald Trump’s re-engagement with Russia has given new urgency to European discussions

Trump changed conversation on Ukraine ‘for the better’, says UK
Sir Keir Starmer reiterates that Britain is ‘ready and willing’ to put troops on ground in Ukraine to secure peace

Nvidia will face off with investors demanding perfection as the ‘spigot of investment dollars’ gushes into AI
Investors want updates on DeepSeek and margins for Blackwell, in what is otherwise expected to be another excellent quarter. Read ...

Trump is trying to do away with Daylight Savings Time. So are these states.
Dozens of states aim to observed daylight savings time all year round. Read More

TV journalist Kendis Gibson says he secretly battled depression before psychedelics saved his life
Now he’s opening up about his mental health journey—specifically, about the powerful role played by psychedelics—in a new memoir. Read ...

Will Smith shares the simple traffic light system his company uses to check in on employees at the start of meetings
Will Smith says Westbrook boss Kosaku Yada asks each team member to rate their emotional state as green, yellow, or ...

No free lunch at Manchester United as Jim Ratcliffe puts squeeze on spending
Football club could also lay off as many as 200 people in Jim Ratcliffe’s latest round of spending cuts

Elon Musk has Canadian citizenship via his mother—now some want his status revoked
Approximately 171,000 Canadians have signed a petition calling for Elon Musk’s citizenship to be revoked—but the impact of that could ...