The troubles in Italy’s banking sector are not having any impact on the mood in corporate boardrooms around Germany and neither is the election of U.S. Republican Donald Trump, an economist at the Ifo institute said on Monday. “The Italian crisis is not having any effect. The markets know that ... Read More »

IN THE technology editor’s office: two stickers depicting passenger jets, attached lopsidedly to the window by a previous inhabitant of the room about 20 years ago, perhaps while tipsy. In the business editor’s office: a heap of notebooks on the floor. In the corridors: modern art bought long ago, some ... Read More »

An economist at a Russian development bank said Tuesday any deal among major oil producers last weekend would’ve been moot because markets are flush with oil. Ministers from some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries joined their non-member counterparts in Doha during the weekend to consider a measure ... Read More »