International

British retail sales unexpectedly rose in May, boosted by an extra bank holiday to mark the coronation of King Charles but also suggesting most consumers were coping with high inflation’...

For Ros Deegan, the thrill of raising $100 million to expand a biotech firm among the dreaming spires of Oxford was soon tempered: unable to find a bigger laboratory, she routinely ...

A year ahead of the Paris Olympics, flying taxi maker Volocopter wants to prove to executives at the Paris Airshow it is on track to ferry customers around the sporting ...

Lithium producers are growing anxious that delays in mine permitting, staffing shortages and inflation may hinder their ability to supply enough of the battery metal to meet the world’s ...

SoftBank Group (9984.T) Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday he is a “heavy user” of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot from Microsoft (MSFT.O) backed startup OpenAI. “I am ...

Euro zone business growth stalled this month as a manufacturing recession deepened and a previously resilient services sector barely grew, leaving the European Central Bank in a policy dilemma as ...

Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T) said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with SkyDrive Inc to make “flying cars”. The companies will use a Suzuki Group factory in ...

Ford Motor (F.N) is preparing for a new round of layoffs for its salaried workers in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar ...

Greece is heading into an election weekend with its public debt trading near the levels enjoyed by first-class peripheral countries, a decade after a debt crisis forced a dramatic reshaping ...

The Turkish lira weakened as much as 2.8 per cent to a fresh record low early on Friday, extending losses as the central bank’s large rate hike a day earlier, ...

Bahrain’s state investment fund Mumtalakat is buying preference shares and warrants worth 400 million pounds ($510.48 million) in carmaker McLaren from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Ares Management (...

The Bank of England raised interest rates by a bigger-than-expected half a percentage point on Thursday after it said there had been “significant” news suggesting British inflation would take longer ...

Brexit has been an “economic disaster” for trade and investment ties between the United Kingdom and Germany, leading to a fall in German direct investment and seeing the UK decline ...

A group of Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders has filed a class action suit accusing former executives at the Swiss bank, including three past chief CEOs, of being responsible for the ...

Turkey’s central bank is expected to raise its policy rate sharply on Thursday in a strong signal that re-elected President Tayyip Erdogan has accepted some steps toward economic orthodoxy ...

British house prices increased by 3.5 per cent in the 12 months to April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Wednesday, slowing from the 4.1 per cent rise in March. London ...

Saudi Arabia has allocated $7.8 billion worth of investments for Expo 2030, state news agency SPA reported earlier this week. “I highlighted the Kingdom’s investment of $7.8 billion in the Expo and ...

The German economy will contract more than previously expected this year as sticky inflation takes its toll on private consumption, the Ifo Institute said on Wednesday while presenting its forecasts. “...

Payments company Mastercard (MA.N) on Wednesday launched a global project to recycle credit and debit cards as part of a plan to save the billions of cards in circulation ...

British inflation defied predictions of a slowdown and held at 8.7 per cent in May, putting yet more pressure on the Bank of England a day before it is expected to ...

Britain’s public sector net debt surpassed 100 per cent of gross domestic product in May as borrowing came in higher than expected, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday. ...

British grocery inflation eased slightly for the third month in a row in June, industry data showed on Tuesday, providing a modicum of comfort for consumers worn down by a ...

The European Commission plans to propose measures this year to address security risks posed by outbound investments as well as reinforcing export controls on goods that have both civilian and ...

Turkey raised monthly minimum wage by another 34 per cent beginning on July 1, the government said on Tuesday, bringing it to a net 11,402 lira ($483) for the second half of the year ...