Short Stories: The activist short seller
Short selling – the trade where you hope a stock’s value will fall rather than rise. If it does,...
Short Stories: The activist short seller
Short selling – the trade where you hope a stock’s value will fall rather than rise. If it does,...
Business Daily meets: Andre Schwammlein
Andre Schwammlein once wanted to be a pilot – but ended up behind the wheel of a bus and train...
The development of new sports stadiums and facilities can bring regeneration to deprived areas....
Why is the US building electric car battery factories?
We’re in Kentucky, where an area which had long ago been abandoned as an industrial site is once...
Bottles or balsa: What should wind turbine blades be made from?
For years, balsa wood has been a key component in the giant rotor blades on the top of wind...
The impact of India's rice export ban
In an effort to insulate domestic prices, India has banned exports of non basmati white rice -...
Business Daily meets: Durreen Shahnaz
From Bangladesh to Wall Street and back again, the founder and CEO of Impact Investment Exchange...
Dumb Money: Unpicking the GameStop saga
Shares in GameStop, the video game store, experienced a dramatic rise in early in 2021. The stock...
The rising price of fuel in Nigeria
In May this year, Nigerian president Bola Tinubu took office – and announced an end to fuel...
Fire-proofing California’s wine industry
In 2020, Napa Valley experienced its most destructive wildfire ever. Vineyards burned, leaving...
The Commonwealth Games in crisis?
The event is facing its biggest financing challenge in its 93-year history. There is no host...
We speak to Greek designer Dimitra Petsa - founder of Di Petsa - a brand which has been worn by...
Fashion: Paying less for the wedding dress?
In the UK, brides spend an average of £1,400 on a dress for the big day. But inflation and the...
Fashion: Doing business in Paris
Paris is the most visited city in the world and one of the things it’s known for, is fashion. But...
Duplicate products, or dupes, are flooding social media. Dupes are clothes, beauty products,...
Fashion: The rise of sports brands
Twenty-five years ago Puma became the first big sports brand to collaborate with a fashion house....
Is green methanol the future of shipping?
The shipping industry is looking for solutions to it's emissions problem. Shipping giant Maersk...
Where next for China’s Belt and Road?
Xi Jinping announced a massive infrastructure project along the ‘New Silk Road’ to very little...
The industry that saved an animal from extinction
You may not be familiar with the vicuna, but in Peru, where it's the national animal, the...
What used to be a fairly niche industry is now on the increase, with companies setting up removal...