From price inflation and Brexit rows to Evergrande and Biden v Putin: Here are the market risks to watch this year The world in 2022 The world is a pretty turbulent and unpredictable place at the moment, with Covid variants not making life easier. From tensions between Russia and the US over Ukraine’s NATO membership to Brexit conflicts and China’s Evergrande property scandal, 2022 is set to become everything but dull. So what developments and issues could disrupt or disturb [...]
Three damaging state of mind myths If you believe it’s external factors that alter how you feel at work, you should think again. At the World Economic Forum this year, there were a record number of sessions about mental wellbeing. But despite our good intentions, there is a fundamental and widespread misperception about state of mind and its place in the [...]
Wolfgang Schauble’s fine line on the Eurozone’s QE – CNBC Comment I had to laugh. Watching the CNBC panel at the World Economic Forum last Friday in Davos, the German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble stole the show in his dry, wry way. Having been one of the biggest critics of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) QE programme from the start, he walked a delicate line defending [...]
Video: French President François Hollande at Davos January 23, 2015 In the wake of the three days of terrorist attacks in Paris, President François Hollande's approval rating has risen – but his next challenge will be to keep France's economic growth – currently predicted by the European Commission to stop at an anaemic 0.7 per cent in 2015 – on track in the face of [...]
WATCH LIVE: George Osborne at Davos January 23, 2015 David Cameron might not have made it to Davos this year, but chancellor George Osborne has made it – and following yesterday's decision by the European Central Bank to instigate a quantitative easing programme, he'll have plenty to talk about. What is the UK's position in the new Europe? And how much of a threat [...]
Video: General Motors chief executive Mary Barra at Davos 2015 on new technologies in the car industry January 23, 2015 General Motors chief executive Mary Barra is one of the few women in a top job in the motoring industry. But 2014 wasn't an easy time to be in the sector: although sales recovered in the US, the number of car recalls was at a record high. But with increasing demand for fuel efficiency and [...]
Video: Alibaba founder Jack Ma at Davos January 23, 2015 Even by his standards, Asia's richest man, Jack Ma, had a busy year in 2014, after he presided over the biggest-ever global IPO when his company, Alibaba, raised $25bn. Today Ma kicked off this morning's programmed at the 2015 meeting of the World Economics Forum to discuss leadership, entrepreneurship and the future of commerce with [...]
Prince Andrew uses Davos platform to reaffirm denial of underage sex claims January 23, 2015 Prince Andrew has used his appearance at Davos to make his first public comment on allegations that he had sex with an underage girl by strongly denying the claims. Speaking at an event at the World Economic Forum last night, the prince – who is fifth in line to the throne – told business [...]
2015 World Economic Forum: Davos wraps up with star billing for ex-footy striker Gary Lineker January 22, 2015 With Davos drawing to a close tomorrow there may have been a tinge of sadness for delegates bidding farewell to the snowy Swiss climbs and saying hello to London’s grey skies. But the mood was lifted by the appearance of football legend and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker – pictured above with Aberdeen [...]
Davos 2015 World Economic Forum: Top execs gather for grand old Duke of York January 22, 2015 It takes a lot to overshadow a quantitative easing programme on the scale of the one announced by the European Central Bank yesterday, but the Duke of York’s private life somehow managed it. Squeezed eight-deep into the Salon Rotary at the Belvedere Hotel, bosses from BP, Citi, Marks & Spencer and Diageo turned up to [...]