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Canada enters day two of a tariff war with the United States with a glimmer of hope south of border.

Enbridge Inc. has made a nearly $2.5-billion bet that demand for Canadian oil and gas won’t slow down anytime soon as it announced large capital investments aimed at growing capacity on its Mainline crude pipeline to the United States and expanding natural gas transmission in Northern British Columbia.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit London later this month to deliver a lecture at the University of Oxford, a well-placed official said on Wednesday. Banerjee is likely to leave for London on March 21, he said. She was invited to deliver the lecture by the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University Jonathan Michie, during the Bengal Global Business Summit in November 2023. «The CM has accepted the invitation of the University of Oxford, where she is scheduled to deliver a lecture. Her flight to London is scheduled on March 21 via Dubai,» the official said, adding that the lecture is scheduled on March 27.

The buyback – MTU's first since 2008, following the introduction of a policy aimed at maintaining a single-digit discount – equates to around 12% of share capital. This is roughly equivalent to the stake last disclosed by Saba, which was 12% on 5 December 2024. As a result, Deutsche Numis analysts Ewan Lovett-Turner, Gavin Trodd and Ash Nandi said: «We expect [we] will see Saba exiting». Greencoat UK Wind launches further £100m share buybacks as investment management co-head departs Saba's presence in the UK investment trust sector has stirred controversy after, in December, it ...

With Love, Meghan has sparked a fresh wave of controversy — and this time, it's her own family calling her out. The Duchess of Sussex's estranged half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., is accusing Meghan of fabricating stories about her humble upbringing, branding her recollections as «malarkey.» In the eight-episode series, Meghan paints a picture of growing up glued to cooking shows and learning her way around the kitchen — a narrative Thomas Jr. claims couldn't be further from the truth. Speaking to the UK’s TalkTV, the 58-year-old dismissed the claims outright.

The Sustainability Disclosure Regime (SDR) label denotes investment products that aim to invest in assets that have the potential to improve environmental and/or social sustainability over time. M&G's Sustain Paris Aligned fund range includes three funds: M&G Global Sustain Paris Aligned, M&G European Sustain Paris Aligned and M&G UK Sustain Paris Aligned.  The first two strategies are managed by John William Olsen, who heads M&G's sustain and impact equity investment team overseeing over £4bn in assets. The M&G UK Sustain Paris Aligned fund is managed by Rory Alexander. 'Sustai...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SEOUL—When Ukraine was scrambling this winter to understand how to respond to the threat of thousands of North Korean soldiers deployed to fight alongside Russia, it turned to someone steeped in Pyongyang’s ways: a North Korean defector.

Malaysia on Wednesday to bolster the Southeast Asian country's efforts to produce high-end semiconductors amid the US-China tech trade war. Malaysia is a key player in the vital chips sector but has been largely focused on packaging, assembly and testing services — the lower end of the market. The agreement will see Softbank-owned Arm provide chip designs and other technology, helping Malaysia to move into more value-added production such as wafer fabrication and integrated circuit design.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What do Rachel Reeves, Javier Milei and Elon Musk have in common? All are preaching the gospel of austerity as a necessary cure for what ails their respective economies. Hence, Reeves, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has tightened rules for government spending and investment, despite the fact that fiscal constriction has been a major cause of the country’s problems over the past 15 years.

S Jaishankar visits the United Kingdom to reinforce the growing GBP 41 billion trading relationship between the two nations. A major highlight of this visit is the announcement of two new Indian consulates in Belfast and Manchester, a move aimed at fostering regional economic ties and enhancing investments. The UK has also welcomed over GBP 100 million in new Indian investment deals, expected to create jobs, strengthen economic growth, and improve financial prospects for working individuals.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Growing up mostly in Bhopal, then the capital of undivided Madhya Pradesh, I was exposed to a range of language variants that we bundle between Hindi and Urdu, all of which I loved. English was a part of the environment, including at school.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After America announced on March 3rd that it is suspending military aid to Ukraine, it looks increasingly likely that Ukraine will have to depend on Europe. Donald Trump might be persuaded to reverse the suspension, for instance if Volodymyr Zelensky agrees to sign a deal on its minerals industry.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One of the most famous quips about India that has long held good is British economist Joan Robinson’s “Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true." A telling example is the contrast between our high position in the world’s GDP league table, where we rank third in terms of purchasing power parity, and our abysmal 119th spot when it comes to per capita income. But one measure on which we have unanimity, even among argumentative Indians, relates to the rapid adoption of digital technology.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Coforge Ltd on Tuesday said it has struck a mega 13-year deal worth $1.56 billion with Sabre Corp., a Southlake, Texas-based travel technology company. As part of the deal, Coforge will handle the software product delivery for Sabre and will also execute artificial intelligence-led tasks for the travel technology company.

Non-tariff measures being announced by developed economies such as European Union's carbon tax and deforestation regulation limit market access for Indian goods in those markets, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Addressing a post-Budget webinar, Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Santosh Kumar Sarangi said that the other challenges before Indian exports include insufficient integration with global value chains, high import duties, technology disadvantage, and high cost of logistics (about 8-9 per cent of GDP against 5-6 per cent in developed nations). He added that the export window is also narrowing because of aggressive industrial policies of advanced nations like USA's Inflation Reduction Act and Chips Act, and UK's advanced manufacturing plan. Most non-tariff measures (NTMs) are domestic rules created by countries with an aim to protect human, animal or plant health and the environment. NTM may be technical measures like regulations, standards, testing, certification, pre-shipment inspection or non-technical measures like quotas, import licensing, subsidies, and government procurement restrictions.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. US President Donald Trump and his vice-president, J.D. Vance, are spinning Friday’s Oval Office clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a show of American strength towards an ungrateful supplicant.

The appointment, effective from Monday (3 March), will see Harrison bring over 35 years of experience in investment management to the board. «We are excited to welcome Peter to our board of directors, where his experience is particularly valuable as we further strengthen our asset management business,» said Peter Orszag, CEO and chair of the board. «Peter exemplifies the world-class leadership we attract to Lazard, and his network of relationships in the UK and globally will help us advance our long-term growth strategy.» Schroders names Oliver Gregson as wealth management CEO P...

Chakri Lokapriya, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for Equities at LGT Wealth India , says most defence stocks have corrected 40-50%. In Europe, NATO is in a flux and with Trump threatening to pull out, major European powers are increasing their defence Budget. This should help the exporting Indian defence companies and Lokapriya is ready to buy Bharat Electronics (BEL) and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). Lokapriya also says among banks, he would go first into the PSU banks, SBI, Canara Bank and then into large private banks like ICICI and Axis. What is your take on the defence pack because we are seeing a lot of these stocks participating and globally we are getting to hear that European markets are definitely looking to up their game with respect to defence spending. Within the Indian markets, some of these companies have exposure to the European markets, a case in point being BEL, which is one of the top gainers. After the correction, are you spotting any opportunities there? Chakri Lokapriya: Basically the defence stocks have all corrected a good 40-50% on the back of lower Indian government spending and there was some amount of re-rating downwards of earnings expectations for the stocks. Fast forward to a few months later, the world is a slightly different place with NATO itself is in a major flux and that is leading to a number of individual European countries increasing their percentage of GDP budget on defence, the UK is a case in point and that will be followed by other countries.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Early-stage venture capital firm Peak XV’s seed platform Surge has seen its global footprint expand to markets such as Australia, China, the UK, and the US, according to a top company executive. Peak XV’s managing director Rajan Anandan told Mint in an interview that the program, which started off with focus on India and Southeast Asia, has now expanded to support companies in other markets.

Severance Season 2 continues with its latest episode. Fans can expect Episode 8 to premiere on March 6, 2025. Apple TV+ follows a fixed release schedule.

trans-Atlantic security. As evident, the Trump administration is unlikely to commit to a security framework in Europe where it pits Washington against Moscow. In fact, Washington is demonstrably against security commitments abroad, to the extent that its age-old commitments under Nato now hang in the balance. What is certain, though, is that any road to getting Washington's security commitments is likely to involve a large economic component. As such, the semblance of an offer that the US has put on the table for Ukraine as a guarantee against Moscow is a mineral deal without any explicit security guarantees. Clearly, this approach may not be acceptable to most countries, certainly not to Ukraine. An immediate repercussion of Washington's security recoil has been the beginning of an almost pan-European consensus on the need to step up and fill potential gaps that could emerge as a result. Most European leaders appeared bound in a consensus to carve a new security assurance for Ukraine, except this time without the US. France, Germany and Britain, along with the EU as a bloc, depicted existential urgency at Sunday's leaders' European security summit in London, knowing that the block may have to take charge of not just its own security but also negotiations on part of Ukraine.