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Can anyone bar Europe do luxury?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.At this year’s holiday soirées luxury bosses may be stingier than usual with...

Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are a blow to global trade

Until the Suez Canal opened in 1869, merchant ships in the Red Sea mostly carried coffee, spices and slaves. The waterway changed everything. So far in 2023 around 24,000 vessels have plied...

America’s border crisis is a hurdle to nearshoring

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Laredo, on America’s southern border, does not look like a crown jewel. The...

What Google’s antitrust defeat means for the app economy

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.IT TOOK less than four hours for nine jurors to reach a verdict....

Will TikTok’s GoTo gambit save its Indonesian business?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.The more the world’s youngsters love TikTok’s viral videos, the more their elected...

German business is fed up with a government in disarray

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Many GERMAN bosses wanted just one thing for Christmas—Förderbescheid. The country’s business circles...

How to master the art of delegation

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Delegating well is the six-pack of management: widely desired and harder to achieve...

Welcome to the ad-free internet

For a preview of what lies wrapped beneath the Christmas tree, log in to Facebook. The social network tracks its users’ behaviour so intimately that it is able to personalise ads with...

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