For a fresh perspective on the stories that matter for Australian business and politics, sign up for our weekly newsletter. Sydney’s delta-variant coronavirus outbreak is proving difficult to bring under control, despite Australia’s most-populous city being…

When temperatures soar and Austrians start to get a little stir crazy, they dream of Alpine hills where scientists and philosophers like Sigmund Freud retreated to refresh mind and body. These days, ever-hotter summers are turning…

Natural gas markets around the globe are rallying as the world’s importers have come to a stark realization: there isn’t enough supply to go around. A long, frigid winter drained gas stockpiles from Louisiana to…

It’s been eight months since Jack Ma, the most famous business executive China has ever produced, all but dropped from public view. Eight months and, by conservative estimates, some $70 billion. That’s the optimistic view…

Five BlackRock Inc. funds just recorded massive inflows that carry all the hallmarks of tax-ducking ETF trades known as heartbeats. The exchange-traded products collectively lured about $13.5 billion on Wednesday amid the rebalancing of the…

Green candidate Annalena Baerbock said she’d unleash government aid to help German industry make the country climate-neutral, while acknowledging recent mistakes in her race to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel. The 40-year-old has suffered a harsh…

Infrastructure deal hopes revived, Basel weighs in on Bitcoin and G-7 descends on Cornwall. Group of 10 A group of 10 senators are reviving hopes for a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, days after President Joe Biden’s direct…

The apparent electoral win in Peru of Pedro Castillo, a rural union activist from a Marxist party, over conservative rival Keiko Fujimori signals what may be a far-reaching shift to the left in a region…