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MoneyWeek is a weekly magazine that enables you to become a better-informed, smarter investor and enjoy the rewards of managing your money with confidence. Week-in, week-out we'll guide you through the financial world as it changes, alerting you to all the opportunities to profit and dangers to avoid, as they appear. Income strategies, rising-star companies, the best funds and trusts, clever ways to preserve your wealth during market turmoil... you will get the best ideas from the sharpest financial minds and investing professionals in Britain.

From the editor...

Tax takings fall

A Sputnik moment for the US

Is this the end for the AI boom?

Japan is back from the dead

Europe: too cheap to ignore

Viewpoint

■ Last orders for the drinks industry

Monte courts Mediobanca • A big banking merger is on the cards in Italy, with tacit state support. But does it make financial and industrial sense? Matthew Partridge reports

WH Smith quits the high street

Puma looks slow and toothless

MoneyWeek’s comprehensive guide to this week’s share tips

An American view

IPO watch

Trump brandishes tariffs • The US president has weaponised import levies, but with what long-term effects? Emily Hohler reports

Britain goes for growth

News

Heathrow cleared for take-off • The airport will finally get its third runway. Or will it? Simon Wilson reports

Labour is throttling business • Will the last major global business to leave please turn off the punishingly expensive lights?

City talk

The turbo-charged ETF trap • AI’s Black Monday brought huge losses for leveraged funds, but the real risk with these is long-term

I wish I knew what an ETF was, but I’m too embarrassed to ask

Guru watch

Jumping off the green gravy train • Rising discounts and yields for renewables trusts reflect the unsustainability of the subsidy system

Activist watch

Short positions... Saba loses first vote at Herald

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

Easy wins on the road to growth

Give Rachel Reeves a chance

Vietnam goes libertarian

Britain needs a Javier Milei

Four UK data champions to snap up now • The world is increasingly awash with data. Companies that create it, harness it or turn it into a valuable offering are potentially sitting on a hugely profitable gold mine. Rupert Hargreaves reports

Three promising recovery plays • Recruitment agency Robert Walters and its peers are struggling, but now’s the time to buy

The smart-meter deadline • On 30 June some old devices will cease to work, so you may need to upgrade

Get your tax return in – now

Pocket money... bag a fixed-rate savings bond

The best loan deals • There is help available for struggling SMEs if you know where to look

Protect yourself from hackers

Petty cash... SMEs’ bad debts double

Clothing retailer closes the Gap • One of America’s best-known labels has become a turnaround play on a reasonable valuation

Going global from San Francisco

Lights out at Lumen • This traditional telecoms company is trying to cash in on AI. It will fail

Betting on politics... Reform rockets

How my tips have fared

Tap into tax-efficient growth: support young British businesses with VCTs • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Alex Davies, founder of Wealth Club, highlights his favourite venture-capital trusts

Alex

The rise of the new TikTok • The US ban on Chinese social-media app TikTok saw millions of US users flock to RedNote instead, a Chinese rival. That caught the company by surprise. Can its...