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Pay awards from British employers rose in the three months to October thanks to rising public sector salaries but private sector pay deals – which are closely watched by the Bank ...

The euro zone’s sinking commercial property sector could struggle for years, the European Central Bank said on Tuesday, posing a threat to the banks and investors which financed it. ...

Waste from at least 19 international brands including Adidas and Walmart is being used to fuel kilns in brick factories in Cambodia, and some workers were falling ill, according to a ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) emerged on Monday as the big winner of the upheaval at OpenAI, hiring ousted CEO Sam Altman and other key staff of the startup to avert a ...

Britain’s next government will almost certainly need to raise taxes and make unwelcome spending choices even if this week’s budget update from finance minister Jeremy Hunt presents a ...

Weight loss was the talk of this earnings season, making names such as Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro the water-cooler discussion that companies across the globe could not ignore. Analysts attended ...

The dollar slid to a two-month low on Monday, extending a downtrend from last week as traders reaffirmed their belief that US rates have peaked and turned their attention to ...

OpenAI has appointed ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear to lead the startup, replacing Sam Altman who will join the company’s top backer Microsoft MSFT.O to lead a new advanced ...

Discounting and new products expected to propel the market towards year-on-year growth By Souzana Psara Global tablet sales reached 33 million in the third quarter of 2023, as reported by industry analysts ...

Researchers in Europe are working to counter potential risks from nanomaterials used by a range of industries for technological advances. By Tom Cassauwers While others might dream big, Dr Otmar ...

If you can’t beat them, buy them. For years, a little-known company called Tooling & Equipment International (TEI) has helped Tesla (TSLA.O) push back the frontiers of “gigacasting”, ...

Glencore (GLEN.L), ExxonMobil (XOM.N) and Stellantis (STLAM.MI) are among companies lobbying for policies that conflict with their own pledges to cut carbon emissions, a study published by ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently announced the continuation of a robust post-pandemic surge in passenger traffic throughout September. The momentum observed in passenger demand during this month contributes ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) this week announced a duo of custom-designed computing chips, joining other big tech firms that – faced with the high cost of delivering artificial intelligence services – are bringing ...

China’s Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK) on Thursday posted a 16 per cent fall in revenue for the three months through September, meeting market expectations, as supply for personal computers (PCs) ...

Britain’s Ocado Group (OCDO.L) has secured its first deal outside grocery retail to provide its robotic warehouse technology to a site of drug distributor McKesson Corp’s (MCK....

By Charles Ellinas The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in September a review of the energy transition progress on meeting the Paris Agreement goals, referred to as ...

Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) unveiled its first high-performance electric vehicle(EV), an N sport variant of its IONIQ 5 crossover SUV. The South Korean automaker said that the IONIQ 5 N, which will ...

British retail sales volumes fell unexpectedly in October as stretched consumers stayed at home, official data showed on Friday, in a new warning sign for the economy. Retail sales volumes ...

Airbus (AIR.PA) won a consolation order for 15 A350-900 jets from Emirates on Thursday after a public row between the Mideast giant and engine maker Rolls-Royce (RR.L) prevented ...

Some of the major banks in the world expect global economic growth to slow further in 2024, squeezed by elevated interest rates, higher energy prices and a slowdown in the world’...

OpenAI, whose generative AI products initially raised fears of widespread cheating on homework, is now exploring how it can get its popular ChatGPT chatbot into classrooms, according to a senior ...

British house prices fell in annual terms in September for the first time since 2012 and rents rose sharply last month, official data showed earlier this week, underlining the weak state ...

The European Commission this week said it had given Amazon (AMZN.O) until Dec. 6 to provide more information on measures the online retailer takes to protect customers against illegal products. ...