Natasha Frost

The US’s sixth-largest bank will have its headquarters in a city unknown to many non-Americans.

Paul Moyna keeps two photo albums in the backseat of his cab. Labeled “The Troubles,” they date from 1969 to 1998. The photos inside are at once personal and political accounts: Moyna as a school boy in Belfast; the earliest days of the “Peace Walls” that would come to separate the city’s neighborhoods; and historic snaps of the area, all painstakingly annotated.

The Indian city of Rajkot lies around 1,000 miles (1,600 km) due west of Kolkata, over in the Indian subcontinent’s easternmost corner. That’s a distance comparable to that between London, England, and Kiev, Ukraine, or between Atlanta, Georgia, and Denver, Colorado. But while London and Kiev, and Atlanta and Denver, are both two time zones apart, Kolkata and Rajkot observe a single time zone. All year round, their clocks say precisely the same time—even though their sunrises and sunsets are over an hour apart.

Until the start of last year, the Canadian stock ticker “POT” was held by Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, the world’s largest potash producer. Then it merged with a Calgary-based competitor. Now, following a lottery of some 40-odd hopefuls, the trading symbol has been gifted to tiny Vancouver-based cannabis company Weekend Unlimited Inc., whose stock rose by almost 150% in the wake of their Friday (Feb. 1) win.

We’re in the midst of a dollar store boom. They’re especially prevalent in low-income neighborhoods. 

A series of electrical issues at a federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, have left more than a thousand inmates stranded in freezing cells, according to defense attorneys and paralegals.

US employers added 304,000 jobs last month, beating out economists’ expectations by around 160,000.

Visa and Mastercard, the world’s two leading credit card brands, both posted solid fourth quarters and outperformed analysts’ estimates.

For the people apparently tasked with running their country, British parliamentarians keep discovering pesky limits on what they can and can’t do with Brexit.

There’s treasure in your car, and it’s just waiting to be stolen.

Where Caterpillar goes, others follow.

Ransacked after two world wars, the tiny nation of Liechtenstein spent much of the first half of the 20th century decidedly strapped for cash. The European country was struggling to get by as a mostly agriculture-based economy, leaving its ruling family forced to sell off its Old Master paintings to the highest bidder.

Many women in the UK were this week left reeling after the National Health Service changed its official guidance on how the contraceptive pill is prescribed. In the past, women have taken 21 daily hormonal pills, followed by seven days of a sugar placebo, during which they experience withdrawal bleeding. (Some women take no pills at all during this time.)

Palladium prices have never known such glittering heights. The silvery-white precious metal is now $1,351.40 an ounce: more expensive than gold ($1,283.75 an ounce) or platinum ($792.30 an ounce), and just a little cheaper than iridium ($1,460 an ounce) and rhodium ($2,460). As Bloomberg reports, palladium has surged around 50% in the past four months. A decade ago, it cost less than $200 an ounce.

Investors like their money to make money. But increasingly, according to a new report from the Harvard Business Review, they expect it to do good, too. In 2010, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments made up approximately $3 trillion of all professionally managed assets. As of the beginning of last year, that number had quadrupled to $12 trillion (pdf)—$1 in every four invested in the US.

For the past decade, the World Economic Forum has put out a yearly review of the greatest threats to our world—the economic and geopolitical risks that endanger our planet, our way of life, and even our species.

It’s not Brexit, terrorism, or even climate change that keeps CEOs awake at night. Instead, recession is the primary concern for 1,400 global business leaders surveyed about their biggest fears for 2019.

The country of Bob Marley, curry goat, Olympic sprinters, and jammin’ in all its splendid forms has a message for its citizens: A little bit of inflation isn’t necessarily such a bad thing.

UK prime minister Theresa May narrowly won a no-confidence vote in her Conservative government tonight (Jan. 16) by 325 votes to 306. She is poised to stay on as leader—for now—but the victory won’t do much to break the political deadlock over Brexit.

In his first earnings call as CEO, Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon had a few words for the people of Malaysia, whose government has filed criminal charges against the US bank and is seeking $7.5 billion in fines and refunds from Goldman’s role in the ongoing 1MDB scandal.

Parliament tonight issued a stinging rejection of prime minister Theresa May’s proposed agreement to leave the EU by a historic margin of 230 votes. The lopsided vote is the culmination of two years of intense negotiations since the UK first voted to leave the bloc.

For the first time in nearly four years, JPMorgan Chase, the biggest bank in the US, had bad news for investors today (Jan. 15): Fourth-quarter earnings missed analysts’ expectations, sending its shares sliding about 2% before they recovering later in the afternoon.

It’s a shiny piece of metal that combines two German favorites: cash and bratwurst with curry sauce.

Britain teeters on a cliff’s edge. Tomorrow (Jan. 15), the country’s politicians will come together to have their say on UK prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the EU.