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Breakingviews columnists talk about the big numbers, crunchy deals and nasty spats in global business and economics, offering a weekly dose of financial insight that goes beyond the concise and provocative views readers get from our columns every day.

Pauses, tweaks and can-kicking are new trade norms
May 15, 2025 – 22:48
Buffett’s $350 bln parting gift is double-edged
May 8, 2025 – 24:39
CK Hutchison deal is test of Chinese hospitality
May 1, 2025 – 24:12
The China-US trade war is set to keep spiraling
Apr 24, 2025 – 25:24
How Trump’s tariff turmoil scarred global markets
Apr 17, 2025 – 29:44
US tariff mania keeps everyone on edge
Apr 10, 2025 – 27:24
Klarna tests the waters for a ‘normal’ IPO
Apr 3, 2025 – 22:26
‘Pro-growth’ M&A policing is a misnomer
Mar 27, 2025 – 25:59
US markets’ exceptionalism goes into reverse
Mar 20, 2025 – 21:19
Germany’s fiscal pivot gives Europe rare hope
Mar 13, 2025 – 24:52
China’s AI catch-up begins to look inevitable
Mar 6, 2025 – 21:56
Unpredictable White House vexes CEOs everywhere
Feb 27, 2025 – 26:02
German elections chart course for a lonely Europe
Feb 20, 2025 – 24:24
Japan’s M&A wave is just getting started
Feb 13, 2025 – 18:06
US tariff posturing is dangerous game of chicken
Feb 6, 2025 – 27:18
DeepSeek scrambles AI development reasoning
Jan 30, 2025 – 24:28
Trump’s day-one flurry buries plenty
Jan 23, 2025 – 25:11
Bond chaos induces headaches worldwide
Jan 16, 2025 – 21:33
Altered states will rule in 2025
Jan 9, 2025 – 26:16
Hot topics of 2024 will smoulder into new year
Dec 19, 2024 – 28:24
French political stalemate threatens its economy
Dec 12, 2024 – 21:23
Drugmakers brace for US political side effects
Dec 5, 2024 – 18:22
Gautam Adani is promise and peril of Indian growth
Nov 28, 2024 – 20:52
Gulf states wedge AI efforts between superpowers
Nov 22, 2024 – 22:18
Trump trades will run into Trump reality
Nov 14, 2024 – 21:54
Trump 2.0: taxes, tensions, tariffs, turbulence
Nov 7, 2024 – 21:55
Robust banks impair pleas for lighter regulation
Oct 31, 2024 – 24:30
UK budget is a tightrope walk over a black hole
Oct 24, 2024 – 15:19
Return-to-office gets leg up on work-from-home
Oct 17, 2024 – 17:14
China’s stock market bazooka is yet to fire
Oct 10, 2024 – 21:09
Middle East turmoil edges closer to global economy
Oct 3, 2024 – 19:06
AI is a black hole of bits, chips and power
Sep 26, 2024 – 19:25
Bank mega-M&A gets tantalisingly close in Europe
Sep 19, 2024 – 23:09
Telegram and X expose tech platforms’ new reality
Sep 12, 2024 – 19:08
Seven & i deal will test Japan’s financial renewal
Sep 5, 2024 – 20:08
Carmakers strain to navigate the next swerves
Aug 1, 2024 – 19:19
China’s leaders pitch their tent in a rainstorm
Jul 25, 2024 – 19:15
Trump 2.0 might be the same, but much more
Jul 18, 2024 – 24:15
Booze-free beverages are no small beer
Jul 11, 2024 – 18:34
UK elections herald return to tarnished stability
Jul 4, 2024 – 23:14
France raises ghosts of last euro zone crisis
Jun 27, 2024 – 14:37
European bosses can only envy Elon Musk
Jun 20, 2024 – 18:03
Europe’s election eruption threatens paralysis
Jun 13, 2024 – 23:52
India’s resilient democracy comes with a cost
Jun 6, 2024 – 20:00
Next UK leader will bang head against fiscal roof
May 30, 2024 – 18:37
Big Macs are pricing out American shoppers
May 23, 2024 – 19:40
The dollar and the yuan are polar opposites
May 16, 2024 – 15:03
HSBC’s big pair of shoes will be hard to fill
May 9, 2024 – 22:39
Clash of the mining titans will get more bruising
May 2, 2024 – 22:22
US economy is a victim of its own success
Apr 25, 2024 – 16:52

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Reuters + TASS = Russia

Reuters uses Russian wire service TASS for it’s source material???? And you don’t tell us what’s Russian-sourced? Not ok to spread propaganda, Reuters!