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The world in brief
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Harvey Weinstein was convicted of one sex-crime charge by a jury in New York and acquitted of another...
Mr Trump said he will send letters to America’s trading partners within the next two weeks setting unilateral tariff rates. He had pledged to reimpose higher duties on many countries by July 9th...
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Edition: June 7th 2025
Phew, it’s a girl!
Warfare after Ukraine’s Russia raid
The West is rethinking how to fight wars
America taxes foreign investors
Provisions in the Republican budget are a dangerous step
Murdoch Inc: feuding, but thriving
Why are investors so keen on their legacy media companies?
The year’s best books so far
When you lie down by the pool this summer, pick up one of these titles
Special reports: May 31st 2025
A new financial order
Innovative financial giants have supplanted banks atop Wall Street. Thomas Bennett hails their dynamism, but warns against hubris
- Financial giants are transforming Wall Street
- Clash of the titans
- What it means to be illiquid
- The debt barons who are taking on the banks
- The latest investment fad is made for gamblers
- Can anything stop America’s superstar hedge funds?
- How the next financial crisis might happen
- Sources and acknowledgments
