It is easy to view the US government’s latest legal challenge to the power of Big Tech as a case of too little, too late. Years of almost negligent disregard from the trustbusters has allowed a handful of companies to entrench themselves in the booming…

Trunks of palm trees in the central square of Uruguay’s capital have been covered in neon-green cloth so that special effects can be added to a science-fiction series starring Keanu Reeves. At the racecourse across town, Berlin’s 1936 Olympic Games stadium has been recreated for…

If US consumers are worried about the economy, they are not showing it. Even as some of the world’s biggest names in finance and technology announced fresh job cuts, Americans have continued to spend at a brisk pace.At American Express, shoppers made more than $1.5tn…

“Just one word . . . plastics” is the career advice offered by the family friend Mr McGuire to a bemused Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, in the 1967 movie The Graduate. A modern-day Mr McGuire might well advocate coding as the route to decently paid job security.…

BUY: EasyJet (EZJ)Stronger winter trading means full-year profits should beat expectations at the budget airline, writes Michael Fahy.Ryanair’s daily flight numbers last week were at 114 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, but EasyJet has been slower off the mark. Its daily flight numbers last week…

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has insisted the High Speed 2 railway will finish in central London as officials at the project connecting the capital and northern England examine measures to prevent a further surge in costs.The estimated price tag for Britain’s biggest infrastructure scheme has soared…