Business

Breakout

Donald Trump’s victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies

A hard line means hard cash

Bartleby

How to behave in lifts: an office guide

Life in an elevator

Indian business

Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America

Prosecutors allege one of India’s richest men paid off local officials

All’s well that’s Blackwell

Nvidia’s boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall

But it’s “urgent” to get to the next level, Jensen Huang tells The Economist

Schumpeter

Does Dallas offer a vision of Trumpian America?

The Texan city embodies the allure of small government

Death by LLM

What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common

The first casualties of generative AI offer lessons for other businesses

Flying low

Spirit’s woes reveal the dismal state of America’s budget airlines

Its bankruptcy shows how strained the low-cost model has become

A corporate identity crisis

How Chinese is Shein?

For the fast-fashion giant, nationality has become a vexed question

Trainer wars

Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes

On, Hoka and other challengers are catching up fast

A sticky situation

Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?

Elliott Management wants to split Honeywell in two

Levy breaks

America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed

Donald Trump’s promise of big tax cuts may not materialise

Semiconductors

TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope

Taiwan’s giant chipmaker must balance demands from America, China and home