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The way the pound rebounded does not reflect long-term confidence in the currency.
Forget the sunset pictures that accompanied so much media coverage of the steel crisis. Steel is an industry of the future, not the past.
Fixed odds betting terminals attract all the attention, but something alarming is being overlooked.
The UK’s decision to leave the single market and customs union will have huge consequences.
The defining characteristics of our species will make us and our labour relevant in a new era.
President-elect Donald Trump has offered the UK a quick post-Brexit trade deal but he’ll face some legal hurdles to make it happen.
Expectations are high that China will take the reins of global leadership at Davos, but don’t expect Xi Jinping to upset the apple cart.
The system is rigged for a small minority to profit, but are we brave enough to deploy the solutions that would work?
When politicians win by stoking nationalism and isolationism, who will be brave enough to walk the harder path?
New research shows how marketers get away with making their food look and sound healthier than it really is.
New measure of 32 countries’ economic balance places UK and US near bottom of the pile.
Two High Street titans look like they are travelling different paths, but watch out for trouble in 2017.
The idea of a minimum wage has become widely accepted so why is a maximum wage so controversial?
By focusing on forecasting issues, economists remain disengaged with real-world problems.
The World Economic Forum draws a straight line from social injustice to many of the risks facing the world in 2017.
Despite performing the same job, one of BA’s three cabin crew fleets earns far less than their colleagues.
One cymbal manufacturer has survived 400 years, but most in-house companies fail to survive through the generations.
Does the Turkish government have ulterior motives in its attempt to make Istanbul a global financial centre?
Everything is in place for a spending spree this January, but some data crunching shows successful spending is elusive.
China’s new freight train line to London is part of an increasing web of trade routes designed to boost the country’s influence abroad.
George Kerevan, Stephen Boyd and Katherine Trebeck see a world where employees are treated like just-in-time inventory.
London and Brussels should be constructive about Brexit – for both their financial benefit.
From Sharapova to the Brownlee brothers, 2016 has given us one step forward to one step back.
Ford Motor Company’s attempts (and failure) to monitor its employees offers some lessons in why we should question the use of wearable tech by companies today.