Turkey burns bridges with markets as costs of lira defence mount

Istanbul Turkey is paying the price for its pre-election efforts to tinker with the markets. As a controversial vote rerun looms, a barrage of interventionist policies by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has backfired, starving the economy of investment, fuelling demand for foreign currency among households and businesses and further undermining the lira. Despite repeated […]

Amazon working on device that can read human emotions

Amazon.com Inc. is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognise human emotions. The wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg. It’s a collaboration between Lab126, the hardware development group behind Amazon’s Fire phone and Echo smart speaker, and the Alexa voice software team. Designed to […]