Netflix: revenue boost from password crackdown unlikely to spawn a sequel
Video streaming business’s stock multiple of 25 times forward earnings is well below the three-year average
Digital Media
Blackstone: the second trillion is always the hardest
At its current pace, the group’s goal will take decades to reach
Mergers & Acquisitions
Brussels shootings raise pressure on EU to tighten immigration rules
Tunisian gunman Abdesalem Lassaoued had been declined asylum in four European countries but never sent back
Terrorism
You May Never See Us Again — the Barclay brothers’ rise and fall
Jane Martinson tries to get inside the secretive lives of the wheeler-dealer twins and their business empire
Mergers & Acquisitions
Federal Reserve chair pledges to move carefully on rates amid ‘range of uncertainties’
Jay Powell points to elevated geopolitical tensions posing ‘important risks’ to global economy
Central banks
How to prevent AI from provoking the next financial crisis
New systems have benefits for markets, but risks to stability must be managed
Financial & markets regulation, Artificial intelligence
That 2 per cent inflation target may not be sacred for much longer
Geopolitics, including the conflict in the Middle East, are complicating the calculations of interest rate-setters
Central banks
EU carmaker subsidy deal with US at risk over mine inspections
Washington insists that materials be sourced from countries abiding by strict environmental and labour rules
Electric vehicles
Chinese investors’ sales of US stocks and bonds hit four-year high
Sales surge coincides with People’s Bank of China’s efforts to defend renminbi
Central banks
Hollywood turns inward
Disney’s move to consider selling all or part of Indian operations points to a broader trend among the studios
Digital Media