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Bitcoin touched a fresh record high on Friday, with its sights set firmly on the $100,000 barrier, in a stellar rally for the cryptocurrency sparked by expectations of a more friendly ...

Inflows into global equity funds slowed in the week ending Nov. 20 due to geopolitical tensions between Russia and the West, with investors also anxious about the US interest rate policy ...

Millions of British households will see energy bills tick up in January after regulator Ofgem said it would increase its domestic price cap by 1.2 per cent from January as volatile ...

British business output shrank for the first time in more than a year and tax increases in the new government’s first budget hit hiring and investment plans, a survey ...

Oil prices held steady on Friday, on track for a weekly rise of 5 per cent, as the Ukraine war intensified and Chinese imports were set to increase in November. Brent ...

Britain borrowed more than expected in October, according to official data that showed the challenge facing finance minister Rachel Reeves who says she will fix the public finances as well ...

Berkay Ucar has almost given up hope of finding work after his eight-month search only generated a few unsuccessful interviews. Living with his parents in the capital Ankara, 24-year-old software ...

OPEC+ will have little room to manoeuvre on oil policy when it meets in December: it would be risky to increase output because of weak demand, and difficult to deepen ...

US inflation continues to ease, with wages and the job market cooling and excess price increases largely confined to housing, a situation in which it will likely remain appropriate to ...

HSBC (HSBA.L) is relaunching its ‘Premier’ wealth banking brand in Britain, targeting so-called mass affluent customers who have between 100,000 and 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) to invest. Jose Carvalho, HSBC UK’...

Bitcoin rose to a record high above $94,000 as a report that Donald Trump’s social media company was in talks to buy crypto trading firm Bakkt (BKKT.N) boosted expectations ...

President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday cited the central bank’s year-end inflation forecast of 44 per cent and said Turkey will not let inflation crush people when asked about an expected ...

British inflation jumped by more than expected last month to rise back above the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target and underlying price growth gathered speed too, showing why ...

Nvidia has bested lofty Wall Street revenue expectations for the past eight quarters, but as analysts expect a slower pace of growth, how the company overcomes delays and supply chain ...

Britons started new businesses last year at the slowest rate since 2010, a potential warning sign for longer-term economic growth and productivity, according to official data published this week. The number ...

Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the Japanese media powerhouse behind the “Elden Ring” game, two sources familiar with the matter said, as the technology giant looks to add ...

Britain’s biggest retailers have written to finance minister Rachel Reeves to warn her that last month’s budget will make both higher prices and job losses a certainty and ...

To improve living conditions and reduce buildings’ environmental impact, EU-funded researchers are making deep renovations possible across Europe by securing financing, setting strict standards and building trust with residents. By ...

By chiefly focusing on trying to salvage its industry champions, German policymakers may have overlooked the untapped growth potential of the country’s services sector. The German economy, once described ...

Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-biggerlarge language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for ...

EU-funded researchers are reclaiming Europe’s space in the online world by developing the infrastructure needed to support a greater diversity of European search engines. By Jack McGovan Megi Sharikadze, ...

SoftBank’s Japanese telecoms unit will receive the first chips using Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) latest Blackwell design for its supercomputer, the California-based chip designer said, as Masayoshi Son looks ...

By Ioannis Sidiropoulos The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, marked a monumental turning point in world history. It symbolized the collapse of communist regimes across Eastern Europe and ...

Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O) cloud computing unit this week said it will offer free computing power to researchers who want to use its custom artificial intelligence chips, aiming to ...