The Scoop Citigroup has raised more than $40 billion to support Saudi clients so far this year, and increased its direct exposure to the kingdom since the Iran war began, maintaining its bet on the kingdom as a key growth market. The US bank has decided to boost internal exposure ...
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Inside the US Treasury secretary’s tense relationship with financial mediaInside the US Treasury secretary’s tense relationship with financial media
The Scoop Last September, Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait got a call from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The secretary had been a regular on Bloomberg’s TV programming and in its reporting for years, first as the founder of a hedge fund, and increasingly as he rose in Donald Trump’s ...
‘I’ve never been more terrified!’ Carly Rae Jepsen on motherhood, stardom and her horniest album ever‘I’ve never been more terrified!’ Carly Rae Jepsen on motherhood, stardom and her horniest album ever
Call Me Maybe made the singer-songwriter famous – but also confused. Who was she? Who was her music for? Fourteen years later, about to release the double album Day and Night, she finally has some answers Carly Rae Jepsen is as bubbly as ever as she comes down for breakfast ...
The desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocityThe desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocity
A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of Washington When you have a developer as US president, you might expect some zhooshing up of the capital. A few buildings renovated, ...
‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
Three little letters – bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand In one corner is bnb-side, a six-room bed and breakfast on the Isle of Portland – a tiny wedge of limestone tied by a narrow ribbon ...
The US right still paints Muslims as the ‘enemy’. But they are fighting for a brighter future for Americans | Nesrine MalikThe US right still paints Muslims as the ‘enemy’. But they are fighting for a brighter future for Americans | Nesrine Malik
Progressive politicians such as Zohran Mamdani offer answers to the bitter post-9/11 legacy of failures at home and abroad Twenty-five years after 9/11, two pieces of journalism, describing two different phenomena in contemporary New York, tell us a great deal about a city, and indeed a world, caught between two ...
Burning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisisBurning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisis
The subversive bacchanal for San Francisco’s eccentric underground is ageing out amid an influx of the super-rich Burning Man, the infamous arts festival in the Nevada desert, turned 40 this year, and it’s showing some distinct signs of middle age. It’s not just the tech billionaires who show up to ...
MPs and Lords call for new law to address AI threat to human rightsMPs and Lords call for new law to address AI threat to human rights
Existing laws are not equipped to address the risks to human rights being posed by artificial intelligence, UK politicians say. ...
Satellite images show extent of damage to major Saudi pipeline, amid global oil supply fearsSatellite images show extent of damage to major Saudi pipeline, amid global oil supply fears
Saudis yet to provide details about damage from drone attack to key east-west pipeline to Red Sea that could affect 4% of global oil supply Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for export if it doesn’t restart a drone-damaged major pipeline to the Red Sea within days, leading ...
Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZAIsraeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA
Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’ ‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence Israel’s culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of NAZA, a documentary about ...