EU eyes December trade initiatives after China car import deal

Saudi Arabia’s closure of a major oil pipeline after a recent attack is raising fears that global energy markets in crisis because of the war with Iran could face even starker shortages, pushing prices higher for fuel and other essentials. The largest oil producer in the Middle East closed its East-West pipelineon Friday after the attack, which it blamed on…

Challenger bank Monzo has launched a new credit card offering customers the chance to earn cashback and automatically invest it. There are many cashback credit cards on the market, letting you earn rewards on your everyday spending, but Monzo’s new Aura card is the first in the UK to allow you to auto-invest any cashback…

AI has changed the climate conversation. I had no doubt about that as I sat down onstage yesterday, under the lights at The Nest Campus, the Climate Week NYC bonanza at the North Javits Center. It feels a bit like a mini-climate-focused CES, complete with EVs inside the conference center.  I was talking to Dawn…

Digital asset enthusiasts have clashed over how traditional capital markets should move onto distributed ledgers. Benjamin Santos-Stephens, chief executive of digital asset infrastructure provider ClearToken, argued against the false binary that “to do tokenisation, you have to have everything originally issued on-chain”.  He expects tokenised assets – whereby securities are physically created but Only users…

Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs) are a popular and disciplined way to invest in mutual funds, allowing investors to contribute a fixed amount at regular intervals and gradually build wealth over the long term. While the traditional SIP remains widely used, investors can also choose from several types of SIPs that are designed to suit different…