Viewsroom: Bitcoin, El Salvador and Roger Federer
As the Central American country adopts the cryptocurrency as a coin of the realm, Richard Beales and Gina Chon discuss the merits of stablecoins and the scramble by regulators to catch up with the mar...
9 Sep 202117min
Viewsroom: Scoring Ronaldo’s return to Man Utd
Shareholders cheered the prolific Portuguese striker’s surprise decision to rejoin his former club in England. His three-year stint at Juventus, though, was hardly a clear financial victory. Plus: An ...
2 Sep 202115min
Viewsroom: China’s push for common prosperity
Markets have been hit by a series of crackdowns in private tutoring, data security and more. Underlying this is Beijing’s effort to limit rich excesses and boost middle-class wealth, which could curb ...
26 Aug 202113min
Viewsroom: China’s Afghanistan question
Beijing was able to expand its influence in central Asia while America and its allies held back the Taliban. The Islamic fundamentalists’ return to power presents China with new challenges – and oppor...
19 Aug 202128min
Viewsroom: Battling the climate emergency
A new U.N. report on global warming gives financiers fresh reasons to take bigger steps to help avert or mitigate the consequences, Breakingviews editors argue. A plan by the UK’s Prudential and the A...
12 Aug 202120min
Viewsroom: Jack Dorsey takes a trip Down Under
Square’s $29 bln takeover of Aussie fintech darling Afterpay shines a light on the “buy now, pay later” craze, which poses a big challenge to many established players in the banking and payments busin...
5 Aug 202111min
Viewsroom: Climate transition, Chinese stocks
Some of the biggest investors, including Brookfield and TPG, are launching mega-funds to invest in the global transition to a net-zero economy in what could be the ultimate new asset class. Richard Be...
29 Juli 202118min
Viewsroom: Olympic blunders and Robinhood’s IPO
The Tokyo games are struggling with rising Covid-19 infections, corporations pulling out, an unenthused Japanese public and now a bad Holocaust joke. Pete Sweeney and Rob Cox discuss. Meantime, John F...
22 Juli 202121min
