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...

Introducing ‘Predictions 2026,’ a new e-book from @breakingviews.reuters.com laying out the deals, companies, people and market moves that will shape the year ahead. Access the book 👉 reut.rs/3YDKKwu

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

“Venezuela has as many as 2,000 generals and admirals, more than double the number in the United States. Senior and retired officers control food distribution, raw materials and the state oil company PDVSA, while dozens of generals sit on the boards of private firms.” www.reuters.com/world/americ...

From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - US raid on Venezuela threatens new global ruptures reut.rs/4jrILFa

So it seems the Venezuela plan is a resources grab overseen by a puppet regime. And that's the best-case scenario. www.reuters.com/world/us/liv...

With what? Are they going to put American trooops on the ground?

Or rather: goodbye international legal order. the new order has no rules beyond power.

This will go down well in Moscow and Beijing. Goodbye, international order. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

This New Yorker profile of Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro is forensic and devastatating. An opportunistic sycophant posing as an ideologue. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This reminds me of painstaking efforts to map the business dealings of Chinese political leaders and their families in the 2010s. The difference here is there are no offshore shell companies or aliases. It’s all hidden in plain sight. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why self-improvement starts with maintenance timharford.com/2026/01/why-...

A colloquial German word about someone viewed as low on intellect, especially popular in the 1990s, was Teletubbyzurückwinker. It means “one who waves back at the Teletubbies.”

There are too many publications with “New York” in their name. It was just about tolerable in the print era. But now they’re all competing websites it’s too confusing.

The US government, whose explicit strategy is to cultivate resistance inside the EU, is now bullying Europeans who tried to rein in disinformation on U.S.-owned social media networks. In case anyone needs a reminder about what’s at stake.

Merry Christmas to everyone except @eurostarnews.bsky.social, who just dumped a full trainload of London-bound passengers in Brussels with no advance warning and no way of getting home this evening

The last edition of The Week in Breakingviews in 2025 is a recap of the year, including some of the curious things I learned from the @breakingviews.reuters.com team. www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

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It's easy to point out the many holes in this argument, but what really comes across is the lack of conviction. Even the true believers no longer give the impression of truly believing. Brexit is a spent force. www.ft.com/content/42b3...

It's a sign of how far the EU has shifted that joint borrowing - for long considered a non-starter - is now viewed as a slightly disappointing Plan B. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

"If fusion doesn’t pan out, maybe the cancer therapy TAE says it's developing will provide a Plan B." 🤪🤡

The entire US news cycle is now "Trump says he's going to do this thing!" followed, about 15 minutes later, by someone pointing out that Trump cannot actually do that thing.

‘Tis truly the season for silly deals www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Concept company buys concept company www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

"Among those granted clemency was Jared Wise, a former FBI agent himself. According to bodycam footage submitted in court, Wise urged rioters to kill police during the Capitol siege. Wise now serves in the Trump administration." www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Great reporting on China’s efforts to replicate the machines that make the most advanced chips. Fake ID cards, oblique networks of suppliers, and a prototype in a Shenzhen lab that almost fills a factory floor. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Almost every European CEO I meet talks about investing more in the US. Hard to reconcile such optimism with an administration that issues these kinds of threats. www.ft.com/content/001d...

AI promised a revolution. Companies are still waiting. - www.reuters.com/business/bus...

This is just so funny on so many levels. As if Paramount were really, really relying on Jared Kushner for his $200 milllion, rather than the other benefits he might offer. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's the most wonderful time of the year...when the @breakingviews.reuters.com team unwraps its predictions for the 12 months ahead. The 13 Days of Predictions kicks off with @gaberubin.bsky.social looking who will hold real power at the Federal Reserve. #BVPredicts www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

To grow its ad biz in China, Meta has relied on ad agency partners given the power to create special enforcement-protected ad accounts and share them with resellers. The system produces so much fraud that Meta internally calls China its top “scam exporting nation.” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

“It’s like consensual scamming. The slimy salesmen depicted in The Wolf of Wall Street had to dial all day to trick retirees into buying their penny stocks. Now the suckers are actually seeking out pump-and-dump schemes.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

In the latest edition of The Week in Breakingviews I wrote about the battle for Warner Brothers and the lessons from its fourth change of ownership in two-and-a-half decades. Sign up here to receive it every weekend: www.reuters.com/newsletters/...

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What's the value of a company with no revenue, 15,000 acres in Texas, a former U.S. energy secretary, and dreams of building nuclear-powered data centres? Answer: 40% less than yesterday. (Still worth about $6 billion though) www.reuters.com/technology/d...

The left-field risk for 2026 is rates going up  - www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

The Trump administration’s plan for carving up Ukraine and bringing Russia back into the world economy is blunt but also incoherent. In July the EU signed a fantasy trade deal promise to buy US liquefied natural gas. Now it’s supposed to resume buying Russian gas as well? www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Give it a few more years and Britain will be like France after World War Two, where everyone was in the resistance and nobody collaborated.

It's a game of four quarters

Here we gooo.......

"Large language models can only predict the next thing a human would say. Train one on texts from the late 1800s and it won’t invent airplanes or rockets. It will channel ideas from that period, when leading scientists thought human flight was impossible." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Swiss pragmatism remains intact www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

“A National Security Strategy speaks to three audiences: the U.S. government itself; allies and friends, and adversaries. The new strategy can’t be coherently implemented by the first, will alienate the second still further, and open up opportunities to the third.”

Can Europe be saved? My latest

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies Yet, dotted everywhere Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the just Exchange their messages May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair Show an affirming flame

This is jumping the gun for a deal that requires approval from regulators and shareholders, and may yet face a counterbid from any number of rivals.