As a gaunt Carlos Ghosn, the architect of the Renault-Nissan alliance, was being denied bail in Tokyo last Tuesday, the French government was already on the move. Martin Vial, who manages the state’s equity holdings and sits on the Renault board, and Emmanuel Moulin, the right-hand man of finance... Read more

A new scooter-sharing start-up led by the former founder of Delivery Hero has raised €55m in one of Europe’s largest ever “Series A” funding rounds, as capital continues to flood into the scooter market. Berlin-based Flash was co-founded six months ago by Lukasz Gandowski alongside veterans of Uber and... Read more

JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon received a pay package worth $31m last year, a 5 per cent pay raise from 2017, according to a regulatory filing from the bank. The pay packet could ultimately be worth much more, depending on the performance of the bank and its shares... Read more

Donald Trump has cancelled his delegation’s trip to Davos due to the government shutdown, shortly after he informed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi her own overseas travel needed to be postponed because of the dispute. The president, who had already scrapped his own plans to go to the Swiss resort,... Read more

Netflix just missed estimates for subscriber growth in the final three months of 2018, sending its shares down more than three per cent in after-market trading. The streaming company added 8.8m net new subscribers in the fourth quarter, slightly below analyst forecasts for 9.2m. It added 1.5m subscribers in... Read more

Donald Trump has announced ambitious plans to expand and update US missile defence systems, in a bid to stay ahead of countries whose militaries the administration considers a threat. The initiative comes as the US worries about Iran and North Korea’s ballistic missile capabilities, as well as technological advances... Read more

Here is a thought experiment. If someone other than Donald Trump were president, would Republicans have voted to lift sanctions on companies owned by an oligarch with close links to the Kremlin, as they did on Wednesday? These are the same legislators who refuse to lift the shutters on... Read more