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14 stories for“corporate governance”
A stake Musk's carmaker holds in his rocket company produced more paper profit last quarter than building and selling cars did. On the earnings call, he stopped short of denying a merger.
Aug 3, 2026
Gross federal debt crossed forty trillion dollars on 18 August. Two days later the Treasury said it would more than double its repurchases of long-dated bonds. Yields fell, gold rose, bitcoin ran, and the underlying arithmetic did not change.
Aug 22, 2026
The long bond closed at 5.27 per cent on 1 and 2 September and has not been below five since July. The two-year has climbed from 4.17 to 4.39 in a week. What the Federal Reserve's own data shows, and why the shape of the move matters more than the level.
Sep 8, 2026
Stablecoins are expanding as payment and settlement tools, but BIS and IMF research warns that redemption pressure can connect token risk to traditional financial markets.
Jul 25, 2026
The latest World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum connected women-led enterprise with green, blue, creative and digital industries, producing investment commitments as well as policy language.
Aug 3, 2026
Long government borrowing costs are at multi-decade highs across the United States, Germany, France and Japan. The cause is not central bank policy. It is the sheer volume of debt being issued, and some of it is paying for data centres.
Aug 18, 2026
Wall Street fell for a third day as Brent settled at 101 dollars and the ten-year yield touched its highest since 2023. Futures price a better than even chance of a quarter-point rise on 16 September. What the buyback means, and what to watch.
Sep 10, 2026
The house lost more than 100 million euros at the operating line and breached its bank covenants. The banks have waived the terms until March 2028, on condition that a set of extraordinary transactions is completed by June next year.
Aug 29, 2026
HEAD rescued Aqualung out of receivership with a 50 million euro package. The result is a single group holding four of diving's best known equipment names and SSI, the agency that certifies divers to use them.
Aug 18, 2026
Shipping, insurance and construction costs are all higher because of the Iran conflict. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are pressing ahead with project awards anyway, and the reasoning is deliberate.
Aug 4, 2026
Brussels cleared the entertainment mega-deal after a distribution concession, but a US states’ lawsuit and questions over Gulf backing still block certainty.
Jul 23, 2026
A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz and hit every GCC state should have broken the region's economics. Reserves and diversification kept it standing.
Jul 16, 2026
Non-oil activity reached 79.4 percent of national output in the first quarter, growing at 4.8 percent while the overall economy grew 3. The gap between those figures is the story.
Aug 6, 2026
Middle East carriers earned 7.2 billion dollars in 2025 and are forecast to lose 4.3 billion this year. Emirates is flying at three quarters of capacity, jet fuel is up nearly half, and European regulators still advise avoiding four countries' airspace.
Aug 22, 2026
