D ry January is under way. After the excesses of the festive period, nearly one-third of Americans are expected to give up, ...

F or investors who bought on the rumour, it is nearly time to sell on the news. They have spent months gripped by uncertainty ...

E VERY BUSINESS in Ukraine has a reference point. For Mykhailo Travetsky, a farmer in Pryluky, it was the first six weeks of the all-out invasion. As a Russian column stalled on a nearby highway, his ...

Chart: The Economist A petro-boom would advance many ... where state-owned companies dominate drilling, in the land of the free oil is pumped by private firms, which are allowed to make their ...