With international trade facing its greatest threat in decades, this club of China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and India will have much to say about it.
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The cargo ship was built at around the time that England was beginning to look further afield for trade opportunities.
As the workforce ages, it’s important to celebrate age diversity. We challenge five myths about older workers.
The Croatian island of Vis is gearing up for a massive influx of tourists wanting to see where the Abba-inspired movie sequel was filmed.
One of America’s original manufacturing giants is scrambling to control how customers digitise its products.
US President Donald Trump thinks the fine is political – but it’s just a different way of doing business.
Challenger banks are on the rise but they need to prove themselves to be trustworthy to survive – and profit.
The white paper, which outlines Britain’s vision for Brexit, does make independent trade deals tricky.
Comcast and Disney’s bidding war for Sky can only be justified by the outside threat of Amazon and Netflix.
Listening to employee suggestions could give the UK the productivity boost it desperately needs.
There are other ways of exploiting victims in the ‘business model’ of modern slavery.
The Anthill 27: Confidence
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A podcast about confidence – from how it works in our brains and whether it can get us ahead at work to how confidence tricksters fool people into falling for their scams.
Wellies at the ready, these researchers have been digging up the truth about the festival business.
Silicon Valley’s chip supplier de choix scored a massive own goal with smartphones. If it has got driverless cars wrong too, it could be goodnight Santa Clara.
A dormant ‘cash mountain’ marks a nadir for London’s contactless travel card, but trouble has been brewing for some time.
In ten years, Netflix has built up a streaming business with a staggering 125m subscribers. Here’s what it needs to do next.
The British foreign secretary, Francis Osborne, tried to negotiate free trade deals with eight European rivals in the late 18th century. Guess how many bit the dust.
Fans are shifting their consumption of the World Cup online.
Some estimates say the World Cup will bring a £1.6 billion boost to the UK economy. Do they stack up?
And it doesn’t involve immigrant bashing. Quite the opposite.
Walmart is bigger than Spain, Berkshire Hathaway is bigger than Russia. It could be time to rethink international relations.
While the US gets protectionist, China is working to establish itself as a leader in global trade rules.
Two years after the Brexit referendum, Cabinet members apparently agreed on the country’s vision for its future relationship with the EU. But it has already led to a flurry of resignations.
Connecting smugglers, disposable workers, garbage pickers and the poorest of consumers, the flip-flop trail is one of globalisation’s darker stories.
The heatwave is unlikely to cause the price hikes of 1976 for a number of reasons.