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HD Hyundai: South Korea Enters America’s Shipbuilding Revival
The reconstruction of America’s shipbuilding industry is entering a new phase. On October 22, 2026, in Houston, South Korean industrial group HD Hyundai and American engineering and construction company Kiewit signed an agreement to establish a joint venture and develop a new shi
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CorporateTesla–SpaceX: The Merger That Could Reshape Technological Capitalism
The proposed combination of Tesla and SpaceX could create a corporate group valued at nearly $3.5 trillion.
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CorporateBarclays: Artificial Intelligence Reshapes the Bank
On October 22, 2026, Barclays presented two developments now unfolding together: rising profits and a shrinking workforce. The British bank plans to eliminate around 5,000 jobs this year, equivalent to roughly 5% of its employees. According to chief financial officer Anna Cross,
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CorporateUnited States: Hospital Consolidation Is Changing Its Model
With the planned integration of INTEGRIS Health into Risant Health, Kaiser Permanente is advancing the development of a national hospital network built around a distinctive principle: bringing nonprofit healthcare organizations together while preserving their local identities and progressively integrating their financial, technological, and organizational capabilities.
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CorporateTaiwan: The New Boundaries of Merger Control
A minority stake of 13.1% has proved sufficient to derail a $600 million acquisition. By blocking Singapore-based Grab's proposed takeover of Foodpanda's Taiwanese operations, the competition authority in Taipei has challenged a conventional assumption in corporate transactions:
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CorporateArtificial Intelligence: The Price of Growth
As artificial intelligence becomes one of the principal engines of global investment, the financial statements of its most prominent companies are beginning to tell a more complicated story than their technological achievements suggest.
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CorporateBP: The Return of Profitable Refining Disrupts the Energy Transition Equation
As its refining margins have nearly tripled in a year, BP has announced up to $4.5 billion in new impairments across its gas and low-carbon energy businesses.
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CorporateIndia: Industry Without Factories
The global manufacturing industry may be changing one of its oldest rules: producing goods no longer necessarily requires owning the factories.
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CorporateSamsung: Memory Becomes an Industrial Rent
For decades, Samsung Electronics embodied a particular vision of Asian industrial power: producing at scale, mastering components, expanding across markets, and turning manufacturing discipline into global dominance.
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CorporateMorocco: The Private Networks of Sovereignty
From diplomatic normalization with Israel to Morocco’s emerging arms industry, the trajectory of businessman Yariv El Baz reveals a less visible dimension of economic power: the intermediaries, holding companies, and private capital that accompany the strategic decisions of states.
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CorporateSchneider Electric: The Machine Becomes Software
Only a few years ago, Schneider Electric could still be described relatively simply. A French industrial group selling electrical equipment, energy-management systems and automation solutions.
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CorporateThe Second Balance Sheet of Mass Retail
For decades, mass retailers treated real estate primarily as a means to an end.
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CorporateiPhone: The World in Your Pocket
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs walked onto the Macworld stage in San Francisco with a peculiar way of introducing what was about to come. Apple, he explained, was unveiling three products: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a mobile phone, and an Internet communications device. Then he repeated himself. An iPod. A phone. The Internet. These were not three separate devices. They were one.