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The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: Today’s tech rout is a big deal but it’s nothing like the 2000 bust

Technology stocks around the world are tumbling, but the damage doesn’t compare to the great dotcom disaster of 22 years ago – at least not yet

Vincent Boland: A new decade of austerity is looming and we are woefully unprepared for it

Globalisation is in retreat, the tech revolution is slowing down and public debt is rising

Vincent Boland: Fall of Archegos could change how the stock market is played

The collapse of the hedge fund, which built a $36 billion house of cards, may be one catalyst among many for the most sweeping reforms of the stock market in decades

Vincent Boland: Berlin is the weak link in the West’s attempt to halt Putin’s war

Europe’s largest economy relies on Russian gas to fuel its industries and heat its homes. Severing that link will be hard for hesitant German leader Olaf Scholz, but time is running out for Ukraine

Vincent Boland: For all its faults, the modern, democratic, capitalist, globalised world in which we live is worth defending, and fighting for

Doing business is becoming ever more political as the right turns on its corporate base

Vincent Boland: ‘Z’ is for the zombie state that Putin has built on lies and paranoia

The first victims of Putin’s futile war are the people of Ukraine, but it is also a catastrophe for the Russian people who face long, dark years ahead

Vincent Boland: Is China edging towards a cautious embrace of the free market?

Developments in Beijing suggest that Xi Jinping’s administration is trying to engineer the economy’s reorientation from one development model to another without derailing it entirely

Vincent Boland: South Korea? Nice economy and culture, shame about the politics

We can’t get enough of its smartphones, movies and K-pop, but corruption is rife in the Asian country and its new president is unlikely to change the status quo

Vincent Boland: Corporate retreat from Russia heralds return of forgotten business risk – geopolitics

The oil and finance decoupling from Russia following the invasion of Ukraine is without precedent. Once the dust settles, the entire geopolitical landscape may be unrecognisable

Vincent Boland: More twists and turns ahead as VW tries to steer a way into the future

The car maker’s plans to generate capital for an electric revolution through the sale of Porsche may backfire due to the dominance of its three biggest shareholders

Vincent Boland: Putin’s brinkmanship is leading to the very opposite of what he wants

The Russian president’s posturing on Ukraine betrays all the signs of an isolated leader becoming detached from reality

Vincent Boland: Reality bites for Big Tech as $40bn deal fails to get past M&A watchdogs

That regulators pounced on the intended sale of strategic British tech firm Arm by SoftBank to Nvidia shouldn’t have come as such a surprise

Vincent Boland: By rights, Johnson should have been undone by the disaster of Brexit

The sad irony of the Global Britain tag is that the country was a true global economy before the Tories put it into reverse

Vincent Boland: Peloton won’t be the last pandemic poster child to shrink back to size

As investors react to the end of the ‘free money’ era, any stock market bubble inflated by the likes of GameStop, trillion-dollar Tesla or bitcoin is liable to collide with reality

Vincent Boland: Chronically underperforming Unilever long past its salad days

The venerable British consumer goods giant is now in the crosshairs of a disaffected fund manager who accuses the company of having lost the plot

Vincent Boland: End of Airbus’s double-decker a sign of aviation’s changed flight plan

The aerospace giant and its fierce rival Boeing face enormous challenges in the years ahead, and both need to be airborne again before long

Vincent Boland: The investor’s dream: Apple remains above the noisy fray of Silicon Valley

The seemingly untouchable tech giant’s value briefly grazed $3tn last week, but its shrewd chief executive will be aware, as the fate of BlackBerry shows, that nothing lasts forever

Vincent Boland: All in the Games: Winter Olympics will reflect the new China

Recent developments suggest Beijing feels it no longer needs the West’s money. But a retreat from Western financial markets might not be all bad – if it results in domestic reform and a crackdown on corruption

Vincent Boland: Mergers and acquisitions spree could be the start of something big

This year’s boom in M&A activity worldwide may just be the beginning of a period of corporate restructuring unlike any since the financial crisis

Vincent Boland: Erdoğan’s economic tinkering could bring Turkey to breaking point

It beggars belief that Turkey’s canny and populist leader is crippling his country’s economy by cutting interest rates in the midst of a currency crisis. And voters may finally have had enough of him