We hear a lot of chatter in the business media about productivity these days—specifically how it could decline in the U.S.

Investors and diplomats alike were relieved that he refrained from slapping universal tariffs on all imports on his first day ...

Microsoft is rolling out its Copilot and Designer generative AI tools to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers and raising the subscription price. The change will make Copilot available in ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task. Some of ...

The Economist has learned that two years later Mr Khawam tried to tell this to Ms Gabbard. (Ms Gabbard, whom Mr Trump has nominated to be Director of National Intelligence, denies she received ...

BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic parses the real estate market and finds Ontario is the problem, “Canada’s housing market was flashing very mixed conditions at the end of 2024. While Ontario ...

If you are a shopaholic, it is recommended to consider credit card(s) which offer discounts on shopping, reward points that can be monetised, and the annual fee waiver on meeting a threshold of ...

Since supply has begun to dry up, Iranian crude now trades at just a $1.50 discount to Brent, the global benchmark, compared with $6.50 three months ago. The price rise is enough to have forced ...

Andrew Goodwin, chief UK economist at Oxford Economics says the difference is partly because financial markets are anticipating higher inflation than they are, but also partly because of ...