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Hong Kong exchange posts record profits on Chinese listings boom

Results show scale of city’s comeback as hub for initial public offerings and trading

Results indicate turnaround at UK asset manager is bearing fruit

Pyongyang hails ‘irreversible’ status as a nuclear power at conclusion of keynote five-yearly summit

Proxima Fusion aims to build Europe’s first commercial plant by the end of next decade

Chief executive Jensen Huang dismisses concerns over how chipmaker’s customers will fund their spending

British aerospace company will return between £7bn and £9bn to investors over next three years amid soaring demand

New chief executive Cindy Rose outlines strategy to restore advertising group to profit growth

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

Activist investor has been pushing UK company to improve performance

Engineered scarcity, meet dumb money

Heavy asset, low obsolescence . . . high returns?

Intelligence; term premia; LLMs; school; URLs; PDFs; tariff refunds; X; nukebots; DOGE; Bonesmashing; dementia; Tourette’s

Also in this newsletter: Steel industry furious at being left out of ‘Made in Europe’ rules

GEL among British groups racing to realise projects as west looks to secure local supplies of critical minerals

What is it like to try to start an energy industry from scratch?

Also in today’s newsletter: US-Iran talks and UK gilts

Gideon Rachman speaks to Boris Johnson, former UK prime minister

Tight by-election result expected in former Labour stronghold of Gorton and Denton

Troubles at the private credit group’s first retail focused-fund have added to broader worries about the sector

Only three in history have endured a colder stretch with more snow

Government seeking to push through court reforms in attempt to tackle rising backlog of criminal cases

Stripe is one company that has taken a preliminary look

Marc Filippino talks to Arjun Neil Alim and Robert Smith

Investors attracted by high yields as companies look to shift debt off their balance sheets