After being elected head of Japan’s ruling party, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s pledge to “work, work, work, work, work” for the people made such an impact that, even in a nation known for toiling hard, it was voted “buzzword of the year.”

For pharmaceutical firms, watching the lucrative patents on their top-selling drugs expire has long been part of the business cycle. There’s enormous pressure to find ways of covering the shortfall. For the first time, China has something to offer. Its prolific biotech companies are now in the mix as a potent remedy for the upcoming so-called “patent cliff” facing the industry.

It was hard not to think of Andrew Breitbart as President Donald Trump strolled the red carpet for this year’s Kennedy Center Honors. The late conservative firebrand and Los Angeles native famously said that politics is downstream from culture. This “Breitbart Doctrine” was a call to arms for conservatives to wrestle cultural institutions and industries from liberals so that they could be the ones shaping art, movies, television, music and ultimately politics.

If you’re a Republican, you can explain away the troubling results of last week’s special election in Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District any way you want. But what about the dozens of other special elections in 2025 that saw your party underperform?

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A new study looking at the state of female white-collar workers confirms something many women have been feeling in their bones lately: the corporate ladder is not designed for them.

The world’s biggest listed utility’s claim to owning the future is baked into its name. Investors have long taken NextEra Energy Inc. at its word, too. But the future is being rewritten rapidly by bigger forces, namely political whiplash and the artificial intelligence boom. NextEra’s latest investor day, accompanied by a slew of deals, represents an attempt to catch up and, in doing so, offered confirmation of how much tomorrow has changed.

It has been a turbulent couple of weeks in national security, highlighted by continuing strikes on high-speed boats in the Caribbean that are, according to the Trump administration, carrying drugs headed to the US. Whether that doctrine of “shoot-to-kill,” carried out without warning or any opportunity for surrender, stands up under congressional and judicial scrutiny over time remains to be seen.

Markets are watching whether Powell decides to stay on once he’s no longer chair.

Nothing about the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy should shock European leaders, still less the enthusiastic welcome that this confirmation of a revolution in US foreign policy has received from Moscow. It calls, after all, for a rupture in the Transatlantic Alliance that every Kremlin leader — with brief exceptions for Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin — has sought since 1945.

The world’s banks are facing a big challenge: If more indebted companies follow auto dealer Tricolor Holdings and parts supplier First Brands Group into bankruptcy, lenders will need to be strong enough to survive the losses without damaging the broader economy.

Regulators are finally starting to appreciate how much major government debt markets are being dominated by a handful of hedge funds. There’s a head of steam building around the issue; the Bank for International Settlements released an important analysis last week of the leverage involved, with the Bank of England's December Financial Stability Report also highlighting the risks to financial stability posed by the trading strategy. But we need to be careful about letting the air of out of this b

Of all the American barbs raining down on Europe over the past few days — from Elon Musk’s risible claims of censorship by Brussels to the Trump administration’s warning of civilizational wipeout — those from JPMorgan Chase & Co. boss Jamie Dimon are probably the most cutting. Europe has a “real problem,” he said at the weekend, while outlining three of them: Anti-business bureaucracy, internal fragmentation and a lack of innovation. “A weak Europe is bad for us (in America),” he warned.

India’s latest aviation fiasco — about 3,000 flights cancelled since last week — has exposed the ill effects of leaving two-thirds of a fast-growing market in the hands of a single player and allowing it to become not just too big to fail, but also too big to tame.

Millions of Americans are facing sticker shock this holiday season.

At the start of the year, one of the biggest questions in Japan was if Osaka’s World Expo, a multi-billion dollar project under intense media scrutiny, would succeed.

It was about time the resurgent deal boom threw up a really watchable hostile bid.

Two decades after China began allowing its currency to fluctuate, authorities are again standing in the way of an appreciation. It’s a reminder that the decision in 2005 to sever the yuan’s hard peg to the dollar, important as it was, came with strings attached.

Also the SEC shutdown, the CFPB pause and the DAT collapse.

A sense of smug satisfaction wafts across the internet whenever a report indicates Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is in trouble. So it was last week when my colleague Kurt Wagner broke the news th...

During this fall’s government shutdown, when food banks faced lines circling the block, President Donald Trump didn’t seem to understand that he’d become the face of his administration’s refusal to fund SNAP food benefits.

I’ve been a retirement economist for my entire adult life, and yet I am continually amazed at how America continues to get retirement saving so wrong. Now, finally, the world’s largest issuer of mutual funds is showing signs that it recognizes a major flaw in the system.