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Formal request to be made on Monday but critics claim ‘club of the medium-sized’ will bring few benefits

Kynikos Associates founder says short-sellers have been ‘beat up and left for dead’ but are still being blamed

Growth opportunities leave asset managers struggling to satisfy demand for new products

Trial of former Nissan boss’s lieutenants reveals tensions that led dramatic downfall

IT WAS QUITE the dust-up. On January 22nd Mel Silva, Google’s managing director in Australia, claimed before the country’s Senate that a set of laws it was pondering were so damaging that, if they came into force, the firm would have “no real choice” but to withdraw its search engine from the country. Lawmakers condemned…

COMMERCIAL TIES between Ericsson and China date back to the 1890s, when the Swedish company sold 2,000 telephones to Shanghai. It has been welcome in the Chinese market ever since, most recently selling speedy 5G telecoms gear. Now, fears Borje Ekholm, Ericsson’s boss, those bonds are in jeopardy, as a result of the Swedish government’s…

CHRISTMAS means rich pickings for Apple. The pandemic year was no different. The iPhone-maker’s quarterly revenue exceeded $100bn for the first time, two-and-a-half times Microsoft’s own record sales and four times Facebook’s. Among the tech giants only Amazon boasts bigger annual revenues—though much thinner margins.■ Dig deeper All our stories relating to the pandemic and…

NCP president Sharad Pawar said the new agriculture laws of the Union government will adversely impact the Minimum Support Price (MSP) procurement and weaken the 'Mandi' system

The Sindh government on Friday filed a review petition in the apex court against the acquittal of Sheikh and his three accomplices