Sat, Nov 17 2018

Private equity dealmakers are riding high on a wave of cheap debt, pushing buyout values to levels not seen since the financial crisis. The deals may not yet be quite as large as those in the last buyout bubble that blew up spectacularly a decade…

Last week's blue wave means that Donald Trump will go into the 2020 election with only one major legislative achievement: a big tax cut for corporations and the wealthy. Still, that tax cut was supposed to accomplish big things. Republicans thought…

Luxury Chinese hotels run by Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt have apologised after a video showing unhygienic practices such as in one case using the same sponge to clean drinking cups, a sink and a toilet was viewed by tens of millions of people. The…

HSBC and China Investment Corp are in talks to raise a £1bn that will help the country's huge sovereign-wealth fund to invest in British companies with Chinese links. The fund, which will be managed by London-based private equity firm…

AMONG the many ways that Donald Trump has transformed American politics is by rearranging the country's electoral map. In 2016 he broke through the “blue wall” that the Democrats fancied themselves to enjoy in the upper Midwest…