According to court documents, Nicolas Puech deposited his inherited Hermès shares in three Swiss banks, on the advice of Eric Freymond, his Swiss banker of 24 years. Then the shares went missing https://t.co/uDrskx8fBu ...

To many of her readers, Jane Austen’s novels are about beaux and balls. But she had just as keen an eye for “brass” and budgets. Be under no illusion, she understood what money was worth https://t.co/CsHsnRbTgs ...

The leaders of western Europe’s three biggest countries warn of a catastrophe if the parties of the populist right should triumph. This strategy of demonisation is self-defeating. But there is an alternative https://t.co/Lut2d7zXbM ...

For decades Moutai and other Chinese spirit-makers have tightly controlled supply and prices of baijiu. But market shifts have left distributors with mounting stocks that they are eager to sell https://t.co/zIgsqN4q28 ...

His big prestige commissions looked elitist, but Frank Gehry liked to imagine them full of messy, noisy people. Our obituary of the architect https://t.co/Ut3wNzefBx ...

The president may be pleased to see his name on the Institute of Peace building. But the Nobel Committee would be wise, for now, to keep dangling its own prize just beyond his grasp https://t.co/E0qFJgBRAO ...

Fragmentation of trade will prevail in 2026—but so will efforts to keep the liberal order alive https://t.co/h7HhMu5NV1 ...

The German government recently began major modernisation of the state. Its agenda will meet bureaucratic opposition https://t.co/MH268MxRGp ...

Until recently, the oldest signs of deliberate fire-setting by striking pyrite with flints are from 50,000 years ago. The discovery of a Palaeolithic tinderbox in eastern England has changed that https://t.co/FhzTyTz5BB ...

For most of the past two decades, America’s bankers have been waiting for a merger-and-acquisition recovery in their own industry. They may be about to get their wish https://t.co/O00FyfzPirPhoto: Getty Images https://t.co/Q95wkXFhe1 ...