Billionaire Michael Platt’s firm BlueCrest Capital Management has gained almost 15 per cent so far this year after making a ...

An oil tanker and a container ship have collided in the North Sea, with video posted online showing signs of a substantial fire. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said it was alerted to the incident ...

Seven mostly Republican counties here voted last November to consider splitting off from their state, bringing to 33 the number that have voted to investigate leaving Illinois — almost a third of the ...

It was left to 83-year-old Perella, whose ownership stake in PWP far exceeded Weinberg’s, to tell the court how the world of high finance had changed since 1988, when he famously started his own ...

If the US, under Trump, concedes a sphere of influence in east Asia to China that will be a fundamental misreading of the global economy. The Indo-Pacific is now the heart of the world economy and the ...

In 1929 and 1930, the Cambridge top board lost his queen very early, once to a knight fork and then to a bishop pin. Matches in the 21st century have often had an international character, with up to a ...

The Trump administration is filled with people who are continually contradicted and undermined in public by their capricious boss, and to save face they claim it’s a cunning plan in the same way my ...

The preamble on last week’s chart quiz was about William Playfair, inventor of time-series graphs and irrepressible blaggard.

Commercial insurance prices likely to remain high because of natural disasters and geopolitical risk, says marketplace ...

Translated by Olena Jennings and Oksana Rosenblum, Chekh’s portrait of Ukraine in the 1990s is unflinching. It is a place of alcoholism, violence and poverty. Yet Rock, Paper, Grenade is not without ...

Between the ages of 11 and 16, I wore a tie every school day. The thick, shiny bottle-green and gold-striped style was the bane of my teenage existence: a stuffy symbol of repression and tool for ...

Siri Sachs will become a non-executive of Wallenberg Investments, a new body designed to manage the multiple holdings, while Tessa Pilkington will join the board of Nineteen Private Capital, an ...