Business

Breaking badGERMANY’S largest utilities, E.ON and RWE, used to be known in the stockmarket as “widows’ and orphans’ paper”, so dependable were their profits and dividends....

Making eyes across the oceanNO GERMAN firm has paid a higher price for shopping abroad than Daimler-Benz with its disastrous $43 billion merger with America’s Chrysler....

Free speechAmbani dials up the pressureIN THE end it was even worse than they had feared. For months now, India’s dozen mobile-phone operators have been pondering...

Still ringing bellsAnd on the 7th day...APPLE’s events have often been compared to religious worship. Evangelical fans watch as the company’s darkly-clad boss—first Steve Jobs, now...

PasséNEW YORK CITY has just begun its sacred rites of retail. For its fashion week, which started on September 7th, tents go up, guests emerge from...

Profits overboardTHE collapse of Hanjin Shipping, a South Korean container line, on August 31st brought home the extent of the storm in shipping. The firm’s bankruptcy...

Mission, interruptedA waste in spaceROCKET scientists love their jargon, and it seems to be infectious. On September 1st, when a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to SpaceX,...

Box tickedIF YOU peer into the world of accounting in any given month, it is easy to get the impression that an epidemic of skulduggery and...

Shhhh!MOST companies worry about discriminating against their employees on the basis of race, gender or sexual preference. But they give little thought to their shabby treatment...

Correction: Own goal In our story on Chinese investment in football, of August 27th, we exaggerated the valuations of two clubs, Aston Villa and Granada, by a...