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The S&P 500 topped 5,000 points for the first time on February 8 and has gained more than 25 per cent so far in 2024. The ...

Private equity group CVC Capital Partners is on the hunt for a buyer for its majority stake in Italian pharmaceutical outsourcer Genetic Group, in a deal that they hope will value the business at ...

All three of the country’s major industries are in crisis, and the economy is flatlining. Are politicians finally waking up?

In the charts below, we see that eastern Germany’s population is not only older on average than that of the west, but it has fallen significantly since reunification — from 16mn in 1990 to 12.6mn in ...

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Companies conduct “evaluations” of AI models by teams of staff and outside researchers. These are standardised tests, known as benchmarks, that assess models’ abilities and the performance of ...

The Royal Academy’s lean but lively Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, Florence c1504 skims the surface of this story with a focused group of sketches and just one major work per artist — a cartoon ...

Take, for instance, Penny Jo’s, a jazz bar in Harlem that opened in 2019. Harlem has a strong music scene, and many musicians live uptown but commute to Brooklyn for their gigs, Seth Hachen, the bar ...

The Republicans swept to power in Tuesday’s election, winning the White House, the Senate, and probably the House of Representatives. Voter dissatisfaction with the economy played a big part in their ...