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Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong

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And how to do them better

What is behind the staggering ascent of Palantir?

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The unorthodox firm is profiting from the AI and Trumpian revolutions

Global turmoil has at least one beneficiary: currency traders

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The foreign-exchange market has been reinvigorated by recent events

Trump is a threat to Asia’s giant insurers

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Not just its exporters

Eli Lilly looks set to steal Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss crown

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Despite a late start, the American firm is bearing down on its Danish rival

Bosses beware: the tariff shock is not like covid-19

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If only American businesses were so lucky

Buy the dip: the trend that keeps stocks from crashing

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Retail investors now play a useful role at times of panic

OpenAI’s flip-flop will not get Elon Musk off its back

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Sam Altman is in a bind over his company’s non-profit status

How China is still getting its hands on Nvidia’s gear

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Inside the shadowy business of AI-chip smuggling

For media companies, news is becoming a toxic asset

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Paramount’s dilemma exemplifies a broader problem

Your AI meeting notes are ready

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And no one is going to enjoy reading them

Will the trade war capsize shipbuilders?

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No—as long as they are not Chinese

When can AI book my summer holiday?

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Maybe next year

Don’t blame imports for the fall in America’s GDP

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Why what you’ve read about the trade deficit hurting growth is wrong

The risky world of private assets opens up to retail investors

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Fund managers smell an opportunity to get even bigger

Why China has the upper hand in its trade war with America

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A truce is still possible, but no one wants to be first to pick up the phone

Can Starbucks be turned around?

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The coffee chain’s new boss is struggling to fix its problems

Can Shein and Temu survive Trump’s trade war?

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The two e-commerce darlings are caught between China and America

Donald Trump is proving disastrous for big tech

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Silicon Valley’s stars are beset by trustbusters and the trade war

Big tech has a big Trump problem

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Silicon Valley’s stars are beset by trustbusters and the trade war

America may be just weeks away from a mighty economic shock

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Trade between China and America is already sinking

The trouble with MAGA’s manufacturing dream

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Donald Trump underestimates the difficulty of producing in America—and how his own policies will make it harder

Lip-Bu Tan, the man trying to save Intel

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The struggling American chip giant’s new boss is no stranger to comebacks

Shopping malls are making a comeback in America

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But can they withstand an economic slowdown?

The early lives of bosses

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From cot to corner office

For Volkswagen, things go from bad to wurst

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The carmaker’s sausage sales, at least, are on a roll

How Donald Trump might steal Christmas

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Toymakers are being walloped by tariffs

Watch out, Elon Musk. Chinese robots are coming

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Why China may win the great automaton race

Economists don’t know what’s going on

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Blame crumbling statistical offices

Trump’s sovereign-wealth fund won’t make America richer

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It will just make the country riskier

Will China’s shoppers cushion the Trumpian blow?

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Perhaps. But nastier outcomes are also imaginable

Why American tech stocks are newly vulnerable

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Recent market turbulence has exposed uncomfortable weaknesses

Unlike everyone else, Americans and Britons still shun the office

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What is their love of working from home doing to their economies?

LinkedIn’s unlikely role in the AI race

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People are using the social network differently. It is using them differently, too

The trade war may reverse Hong Kong’s commercial decline

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Asia’s once-dominant business centre is regaining ground lost to Shanghai, Singapore and New York

America is turning away China’s goods. Where will they go instead?

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South-East Asia is exposed to both Chinese import competition and American ire

Reclaiming the office lunch

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Why stopping to eat is a good idea

Poor countries would miss King Dollar

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Even though they normally like a weaker greenback

How Trump might topple the dollar

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For the first time in many decades, the greenback looks vulnerable

Does every business need a cash pile like Warren Buffett’s?

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Not necessarily

How Hermès defied the luxury slump

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And its lessons for other high-end brands

How freaked out is Asian business about the Trump tariffs?

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Less than the markets will have you believe

Biohacking in the office

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One company’s experiment with enhancing its workforce

Amazon’s $20bn push into orbit targets SpaceX and China

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It thinks satellite internet could be a big money-maker

Tariffs will send costs soaring. Which firms will raise prices?

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Brand, customer profile and the availability of alternatives all play a part

The tariff madness of King Donald, explained

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As his policy turns on a dime, pity those tasked with justifying his actions

The financial system at the brink

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Chaotic markets threatened to trigger a full-blown crisis

TikTok’s bizarre sale process gets even weirder

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Donald Trump extends the highly politicised auction by another 75 days

Apple gets caught in a trade-war nightmare

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The world’s most valuable firm is in an excruciating position

Despite the rally, Apple still faces a trade-war nightmare

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The rest of corporate America has to live with uncertainty too