Business

Pret-a-partir

Can Benetton be patched up?

Italy’s threadbare casual-fashion icon is stained with red ink

Bartleby

How to write the perfect CV

A job applicant walks into a bar

Schumpeter

The soldiers of the silicon supply chain are worried

Geopolitics risks distorting a miracle of modern technology

Back, with a vengeance

ExxonMobil rediscovers its swagger

The bad boy of big oil goes after its shareholders

Upping the X ante

Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI?

It has some advantages. But it is entering a crowded field

Flyover country

Japanese businesses are trapped between America and China

Could geopolitics kill off an incipient corporate revival?

Bartleby

The Economist’s agony uncle returns

Pets, drugs and schedule send: another postbag for Max Flannel

The adman of Arkansas

Walmart’s latest product? Its customers

The retail giant is selling advertisers access to its shoppers

Pits and bits

Americans are fretting over their body odour

They are covering themselves in new types of deodorant

Big game

Africa Inc is ready to roar

Its businesses are expanding across the continent

The world’s office

Global firms are tapping India’s workers like never before

They want their brains more than their brawn