Owen Goal is unstoppable at the Emirates. What a signing he’s been.

For once, Davos made history. Impressions from a consequential week in the Swiss mountains.

For once, Davos made history. Impressions from a consequential week in the Swiss mountains.

Kiss of death from @financialtimes.com

Beginning to suspect TikTok’s social impact is less than wholly positive.

The LIV Golf of multilateral institutions. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

NATO’s Mark Rutte frames the Trump talks in Davos as a debate about Arctic security. No mention of any deal over Greenland.

Nice transatlantic military alliance you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.

Globalist elites queuing up for the opportunity to be insulted in person

Interesting historical parallel drawn by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu in Davos. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

This is the second administration official who has essentially said “pay no attention to the guy upstairs”

🔊The US has long been interested in Venezuela’s resources. Abducting its president opens a new, turbulent chapter. In The Big View podcast, Peter Thal Larsen talks to Ed Crooks, vice chair of energy research firm Wood Mackenzie, about what happens next reut.rs/45eMtw8

Davos delegates once laughed at the idea of Donald Trump becoming US president. Not any more. This year's edition of the elite gathering in the Swiss mountains has succumbed to Trump's agenda. My latest for @breakingviews.reuters.com. www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Davos delegates once laughed at the idea of Donald Trump becoming US president. Not any more. This year's edition of the elite gathering in the Swiss mountains has succumbed to Trump's agenda. My latest for @breakingviews.reuters.com. www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

How things might play out in Greenland. Obviously this is not what I want to happen, but I fear it might

A revealing glimpse of what it’s like to be the U.S. Trade Representative at the moment.

Historic as in: historically short-lived

Obviously this may never happen (still waiting for the Iran-related tariffs from last week) but targeting individual EU members, rather than the whole EU, would be a new departure. Indeed, as @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social keeps saying, the surprise is he hasn’t done it earlier.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

“It stands in contrast with how companies responded in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd that spurred nationwide anger; many companies, including UnitedHealth and General Mills, spoke out in support of Floyd or his family after his death.” www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Tell me you know very little about British business without telling me, etc www.ft.com/content/06cf...

The latest edition of The Week in Breakingviews just landed in inboxes, with thoughts on the strange disconnect between geopolitics and financial markets, Wall Street bank valuations, and more highlights from the @breakingviews.reuters.com team. Sign up here: www.reuters.com/newsletters/...

Another possible candidate for the all-time Let Down By Trump leader board

Huh, both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley now trade at a higher multiple of book value than before the financial crisis kicked off in 2007. www.reuters.com/commentary/b... by @stephengandel.bsky.social

"It is telling that the head of the world's most important chipmaker had to talk to his "customers' customers" to make sure demand for artificial intelligence is, in fact, real." www.reuters.com/commentary/b... @robynmak.bsky.social

does anyone know what part of the cycle this is called ?

Dimly recall seeing Wine Mom Gangs at Reading Festival sometime in the early 2010s

BOJ: yeah, we reckon he’s pocketed some construction money.

The world's central bankers are rallying around Jay Powell

🎧 Markets absorbed many shocks in 2025. Will they show the same resilience in the year ahead? In this episode of The Big View, Reuters Open Interest Editor in Charge Anna Szymanski joined @petertl.bsky.social to debate inflation, AI, and the buy-the-dip mindset. Full episode here 👉 reut.rs/3ZfSTr7

Better use those emergency powers whlle he still has them

“Jerome Powell, a devotee of the Grateful Dead, knows it costs a lot to win and even more to lose. One day after the passing of guitarist Bob Weir, the Federal Reserve head put this into practice.” www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Extraordinary statement from Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Explicitly calling out intimidation from the Trump administration, and in the process setting the bar for independence for his successor. www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Reading up on Venezuela I learned that then vice president Richard Nixon was nearly killed by a mob in Caracas in 1958. (From Dan Yergin’s “The Prize”)

Not clear how the US intervening in Iran would fit into all those theories about the Donroe Doctrine www.reuters.com/business/med...

I done one of these. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Can you block access to Grok without blocking X?

Move over TACO it’s Big MAC (Midterms Are Coming) time.

Clickbait journalism meets PR firms using AI, with sadly predictable consequences. pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-5...

I would like to know what Nvidia, Cisco, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority and the other institutions which just invested $20 billion in xAI think about this.

There are lies, damn lies, and oil reserves. www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons... via @robcyran.bsky.social

Don’t be fooled — everything has changed for the global economy: strong FT oped from Gita Gopinath. The lesson from Brexit is simple: "Structural damage reveals itself slowly, and always too late to be reversed." www.ft.com/content/9c82...

Look, everyone did the spoof “what would it cost to buy Greenland” pieces back in 2019. We’re going to need some new material to work with.

Serving up deepfakes of underage girls in bikinis apparently no obstacle to raising money from the world‘s largest company.

This is a new one: 6bn euro e-commerce locker operator InPost announces takeover approach, without saying who it’s from or at what price. live.euronext.com/sites/defaul...

Spare a thought for the anonymous US oil industry executives calling the US president a liar. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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The Premier League post-Christmas tradition continues

Obviously I wrote this before the latest Trump threats against Greenland - but they only make European reluctance to call out him out over Venezuela even more short-sighted. He’s coming after Europe next and the Trump whisperers are being made to look ridiculous