Travel, productivity and the changing role of the CFO
This kind of flexibility pays dividends twice over: it improves productivity and ensures support across teams. To ensure that everyone is on board, forward-thinking CFOs are establishing transparent ...
For Honeywell, not breaking up will be hard to do
Honeywell does not seem to have got the memo that conglomerates have become achingly unfashionable. At a time when the global ...
The Trump challenge for Europe
If Trump forces Ukraine into a deal with Moscow, they may face an emboldened Vladimir Putin. They must begin, quickly, to take more responsibility for the continent’s defence. Europe’s economy must be ...
Brands told to rein in ‘aggressive’ trademarks after UK court ruling against Sky
Media company had claimed intellectual property rights for goods including antiperspirants, tuxedos and biofuels ...
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Bridge: Resist the automatic, and think deeply about your plan
A brow-beaten South opened 1S, and his opponents reached 4H. North led 3♠ and, when his partner won, eyeballed him to ensure ...
From Zero album review — Linkin Park’s comeback is punchy and precise
Time has blunted the derision. These days nu metal basks in the warm glow of noughties nostalgia. But in Linkin Park’s case, the nostalgia isn’t straightforward: the band of today is markedly ...
Assisted dying would be funded ‘at expense of’ NHS services, warns Streeting
Asked about the possibility of assisted dying laws saving the NHS money, if the law permitted patients to end their lives sooner, Streeting said: “You do touch on the slippery slope argument, which is ...
Roméo et Juliette opera review — slick but empty gestures in Berlin staging
Director Mariame Clément did such a good job with The Tales of Hoffmann this summer in Salzburg that it was fair to expect a ...
US CPI ticks back up, but will not stop another Fed cut in December
The main driver of CPI continues to be shelter, which comprises more than a third of the overall inflation basket. Shelter ...
Rachel Reeves might come to rue her ‘read my lips’ moment
For Bush senior, the consequences of “read my lips” were devastating. Having accepted the need for higher taxes in 1990, the ...
AI frenzy allows old school US telcos to dodge death
From the distressed debt dustbin to an AI darling, all in less than a year. Not long ago, US regional telecoms company Lumen Technologies was seen as a corpse that had been scavenged by Wall Street’s ...