A very huge fund owned by a very small country may be set to top $200 billion

The results were due at 3:00 p.m. HK/SIN on Tuesday. That would mark a sharp turnaround from the previous year, when Temasek reported its net portfolio value tumbled by around S$24 billion, or around 9 percent, to around S$242 billion as of March 31, 2016. It was the...

DealBook: E-Commerce as a Jobs Engine? One Economist’s Unorthodox View

July 10, 2017 Andrew Ross Sorkin Retailing is dead. Sales clerks are losing their jobs by the thousands. The employment picture for young people with only a high school education is going to get even worse. And all this is happening because of Amazon and its ilk,...

How the miserable death of Moammar Gadhafi factors into Kim Jong Un’s nuclear ambitions

North Korea’s refusal to drop its nuclear weapons program may have a lot to do with the fate that met another would-be nuclear power’s dictator just a few years ago. Pyongyang’s ongoing development of nuclear weaponry — including the successful...