The consensus for manufacturing is projected to fall from 50.2 last month to 49.4, while the PMI for service providers is expected to fall from 54.4 to 52.8. A number above 50 indicates growth, while ...

Luxury chocolatiers are shrugging off volatile raw material costs to enjoy a boom in demand, saying some consumers are responding to the higher prices and reduced cocoa content in mass-market products ...

The Arctic, scientists warn, displays an intensified version of how climate change plays out elsewhere on the globe. Geopolitically, too, temperatures could heat up faster in the region without ...

GE Vernova, formed a year ago after the conglomerate’s break-up, is investing nearly $600mn to expand its former headquarters ...

Weapons experts warn that any US ally developing nuclear arms would start a rush by other countries to follow suit. The non-proliferation treaty, which for decades has helped to confine the number of ...

But, on Monday, Milei ripped off the bandage. Having secured an unexpectedly large $20bn loan from the IMF to replenish the ...

Her branding was inspired by Chanel and her avant-garde furniture bought by the likes of Churchill and the Savoy Hotel. A new ...

One of Paris’s more anticipated openings of 2025 comes from a trio who started out almost two decades ago by opening a single ...

Dimon’s greatest ire was aimed at meetings. “Kill” them, he wrote. If they happen, make sure they have a hard start and end ...

Buyers of cocoa, generally regarded as an “inelastic” commodity, are undeterred when their cost per metric tonne rises.

Demure needn’t mean conservative though. The SS25 collections lend wedding-guest florals fresh appeal, from Bally’s chintzy ...

Hope is, as the American poet Emily Dickinson wrote so beautifully, “the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul”. We must nurture and protect this delicate thing. It’s the hope, after all, that ...