International

Oil prices slipped on Monday after surging last week, with investors waiting to see if the Israel-Hamas conflict draws in other countries – a development that would potentially drive up prices ...

Big Tobacco firms including British American Tobacco (BATS.L) are selling heat sticks made from nicotine-infused substances such as rooibos tea, countering an incoming European Union ban on flavoured heated ...

Britain and South Korea have agreed to extend a period of low or zero tariffs on bilateral trade by two years, ahead of talks to forge a new trade deal, ...

Adobe (ADBE.O) last week said it is rolling out new image-generation technology that can draw inspiration from an uploaded image and match its style, in its latest push to ...

Europe’s telecoms operators pushing for Big Tech to help pay for the rollout of 5G and broadband will likely have to wait for the next European Commission to decide ...

The head of Germany’s cartel office has warned that artificial intelligence may boost Big Tech’s market power and regulators should be on the lookout for any anti-competitive behaviour. ...

HP Inc (HPQ.N) recently released a forecast showing that its fiscal 2024 earnings will largely be in line with estimates and raised its annual dividend, reflecting stabilizing demand in the ...

The Australian government said this week that it planned to introduce laws that would empower the central bank to regulate digital wallet providers including Apple Pay (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’...

AMD said this week that it plans to buy an artificial intelligence startup called Nod.ai as part of an effort to bolster its software capabilities. In its race to ...

Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Wednesday said its preliminary third-quarter profit dropped by a smaller-than-expected 78 per cent, as the battered memory chip market shows early signs of recovering from a severe ...

Britain’s financial regulator this week said it was stopping peer-to-peer platform rebuildingsociety.com from approving financial promotions for Binance and other crypto asset firms, days after Binance announced it ...

German carmaker BMW (BMWG.DE) saw group sales of its battery-electric vehicles surge by 79.6 per cent year on year in the third quarter of 2023 to 93,931 units, the company said on ...

Electric vehicle (EV) sales in the United States jumped to more than 300,000 for the first time in the third quarter, but industry leader Tesla’s market share slipped to the ...

Russian crude oil producers are enjoying the cheapest costs to ship to refiners in China and India in almost a year thanks to a growing number of vessels plying the ...

Big banks in Britain are preparing for any future escalation of Western sanctions on China and have shared their “scenario planning” with the British and US governments, a senior banking ...

Oil prices were up on Friday after the US tightened its sanctions programme against Russian crude exports, raising supply concerns in an already tight market, and global inventories are forecast ...

Britain’s antitrust regulator on Friday cleared Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) acquisition of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) after the restructured deal addressed its earlier concerns. Activision ...

As Israeli children listened to their teacher over Zoom, the image of a gun-toting man in fatigues appeared on the screen, according to a screenshot shared with Reuters. In another ...

Toyota Motor (7203.T) and Idemitsu Kosan (5019.T) have formed an alliance to develop and mass-produce all-solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, the companies said on Thursday. The partnership follows an announcement ...

Birkenstock’s (BIRK.N) stock ended more than 12 per cent below its initial public offering (IPO) price on Wednesday in an underwhelming Wall Street debut that signaled investors remain cautious ...

OpenAI plans to introduce major updates for developers next month to make it cheaper and faster to build software applications based on its artificial intelligence models, as the ChatGPT maker ...

A group of Japanese firms will issue a digital currency by July 2024 for the transaction and settlement of clean energy certificates, cryptocurrency exchange DeCurret said on Thursday. GMO Aozora Net ...

Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) Constantinos Herodotou is participating in the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), taking place this week ...

British airline easyJet (EZJ.L) said on Thursday it had reached a proposed deal with Airbus to expand its fleet by up to 257 additional aircraft, plotting its growth beyond 2028, with ...