WEEKEND READ – The €460mn Man: Why Red Bull Cannot Afford to Lose Max...
London, 22 August 2026 — EBM WEEKEND READ — By Nick Staunton, Editor-in-Chief
Max Verstappen has ended months of speculation over his Formula One future...
XRP Surges 40% in a Week as CLARITY Act Hopes Revive Institutional Bull Case
XRP has emerged as one of the strongest performers among major cryptocurrencies this week, rising roughly 40 per cent in seven days and pushing...
HSBC Spends $68mn on Biggest Senior Banker Cull Since Financial Crisis
London, 21 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Nick Staunton
HSBC spent almost $68 million removing more than 130 of its most senior bankers last...
ECB Economists Warn AI-Fuelled Stock Market Boom Is Heading for a Correction
Frankfurt, 21 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Katie Winearls
Economists at the European Central Bank have warned that soaring stock market valuations driven by...
Monte dei Paschi Launches €34bn Double Bid to Reshape Italian Banking
London, 21 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Katie Winearls
Monte dei Paschi di Siena has launched simultaneous takeover bids for Banco BPM and Banca...
Europe’s 10 Most Valuable Startups in 2026 — and What Their Rise Reveals
London, 20 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Nick Staunton
Europe has spent much of the past decade worrying about its inability to produce technology...
China Orders Companies Not to Help EU Probe Into JD.com’s €2.2bn German Takeover
London, 20 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Nick Staunton
China has ordered its companies and citizens not to assist a European Union investigation into...
The Gulf Has Oil to Sell. It Cannot Find Enough Ships Willing to Carry...
The Gulf Has Oil to Sell. It Cannot Find Enough Ships Willing to Carry It
London, 20 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Nick Staunton
The...
Revolut Wants to Let Its Founder Borrow $250mn Against His Shares
London, 20 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Nick Staunton
Revolut is asking investors to approve changes that would allow its billionaire co-founder and chief...
Europe is pricing its clean energy future with the wrong risk data
By Professor Subhamoy (Suby) Bhattacharya, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Renew Risk, a leading provider of risk analytics for renewable energy assets
Europe's clean...
Germany’s Car Industry Has Lost 42,300 Jobs — China Is Only Part of the...
London, 19 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Anthony Gill
Germany’s automotive industry shed 42,300 jobs in the year to June, taking employment in the...
German Investors Finally See a Recovery — The Economy Has Yet to Deliver It
London, 19 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Katie Winearls
Confidence in Germany’s economic prospects improved substantially in August, offering the clearest indication yet that...
Nuclear’s AI Boom Just Made Short Sellers $2bn
London, 19 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Anthony Gill
Short sellers have made an estimated $2.1bn betting against three of the most prominent companies...
Travel eSIMs Are Dismantling Telecoms’ Roaming Cash Cow
London, 19 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Katie Winearls
For years, international roaming was one of the mobile industry’s most dependable sources of profit....
Oil and Bond Yields Rattle Global Markets as Iran Truce Expires
London, 18 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —
Global markets came under renewed pressure on Tuesday as the expiry of the US-Iran ceasefire pushed...
How Europe’s Stock Market Is Quietly Beating Wall Street
London, 18 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —ANthiny Gill
Europe’s stock market is doing something investors have spent much of the past decade assuming...
How a Jordan Copycat Became a Serious Threat to Nike in China.
London, 18 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Katie Winearls
For years, Qiaodan appeared to be little more than an intellectual-property headache for Nike: a...
Airlines Hold Fares High as Jet Fuel Costs Retreat
London, 18 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Nick Staunton
Airlines are resisting pressure to reduce ticket prices despite a sharp retreat in jet fuel...
Virgin Clears Critical UK Hurdle in Bid to Break Eurostar’s Cross-Channel Monopoly
London, 17 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Nick Staunton
Sir Richard Branson’s attempt to challenge Eurostar on rail services between London and continental Europe...
German Companies Slash US Investment as Trump-Era Uncertainty Deepens
London, 17 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis — By Nick Staunton
German companies have sharply reduced investment in the United States, offering one of...
Japan’s 10-Year Bond Yield Nears 3% as Yen Weakness Tests the Bank of Japan
London, 17 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Nick Staunton
Japan’s bond market is approaching a level that would have been almost unimaginable during the...
Europe’s Fintech and Forex Industry Heads to Cyprus for Wiki Finance Expo 2026
Wiki Finance Expo Cyprus 2026: Europe's Biggest Fintech and Forex Event Comes to Limassol in November
On 6 November 2026, Limassol becomes the focal point...
Europe’s Farmers Are Running Out of Time to Adapt to Extreme Heat
London, 11 August 2026 — EBM Newsdesk Analysis —Brad Adams
Europe’s farmers are being pushed towards a climate threshold that increasingly looks less like an...
WEEKEND READ: Why the Super-Rich Are Paying Thousands Just to Get Into a Room
London, 11 August 2026 — EBM WEEKEND READ-Brad Adams
A restaurant sells dinner. A hotel sells a room. A gym sells exercise. The modern private...
WEEKEND READ: The Four Companies Quietly Taking Over Europe’s Festival Summer
London, 11 August 2026 — EBM WEEKEND READ. By Nick Staunton
Buy a ticket to Reading, Rock am Ring, Sónar or one of Europe’s other...
