trading

Is private equity secretly running your life?

11 April 2026 9:00 am

Hettie O’Brien delivers a broadside against the elusive financial force that owns almost 10 per cent of the UK economy

The cornucopia of food advertised by the Empire Marketing Board, 1927‑1933

The fruits of imperialism

2 September 2017 9:00 am

Imagine yourself a middle-class person in England in the 1870s. You sit down to drink a cup of tea while…

The need for speed

5 April 2014 9:00 am

How the US stock market became ‘a war of robots’