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Nicolai Tangen, a risk-loving, jet-setting financier and hedge-fund manager, has been made head of the sovereign-wealth fund. Is he the right man for …

Ex-engineer Elizabeth Davis formulated her own products in her spare time to gain an edge in the ultra-competitive beauty industry.

The cryptocurrency suffers from all the problems it has always had and that may never change. But digital currencies more broadly may be about to take…

Test your recollection of the events of the last seven days with MoneyWeek's quiz of the week.

This is an era of unprecedented money printing and more bailouts may soon be needed. The geopolitical backdrop is shaky too. In short, there have neve…

Childhood friends Mordecai Weissman and Myron Goodman siphoned off huge amounts of money from their company to spend on mansions, a private jet and a …

Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates was once widely criticised as a merciless monopolist. But he has tried to reinvent himself as a global health philanthr…

Test your recollection of the events of the last seven days with MoneyWeek's quiz of the week.

The struggle to pay the costs of the coronavirus crisis has exacerbated long-standing tensions about the EU’s budget. Failure to compromise could be d…

Allen Chan fooled many investors by falsifying the accounts of his Canadian-listed Chinese forestry company.

Eric Yuan, an engineer who invented business-conferencing tool Zoom, became a billionaire when his app became a must-have accessory in lockdown. But t…

The coronavirus crisis will surely mean radical changes in global politics and economics, but predictions of the inevitable supremacy of China or the …

If you're not getting much interest on your savings, you may want to consider switching your account. Here are the savings accounts offering the best …

Ex life-insurance salesman Ronnie Ewton's bet on interest rates cost investors millions and led to the collapse of an American savings bank.

Bill Ackman of hedge fund Pershing Square saw trouble coming early and placed a punt on the stockmarket outcome. His huge win may be followed by a sec…

The NHS is the beating heart of this country, the prime minister told the nation. Perhaps, but major surgery is needed.

The collapse in the global economy caused by Covid-19 and the measures to avoid it look deflationary, says John Stepek. But politics and demographics …

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin empire is in trouble due to coronavirus. Can it be saved?

The longer we are shut up in our homes, the greater the cost – including the cost in lives lost from other causes than Covid-19. At what point does th…

In the "Eisenhower Recession" of 1957, the stockmarket crashed, unemployment soared – and a flu epidemic ravaged the globe. John Stepek looks at what …

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