International

Hollywood writers have for decades penned sci-fi scripts featuring machines taking over the world. Now, they are fighting to make sure robots do not take their jobs. The Writers Guild ...

Euro zone banks are turning off the credit taps and a key gauge of inflation is finally falling, data showed on Tuesday, boosting the case for a smaller interest-rate increase ...

HSBC Holdings (HSBA.L) reported on Tuesday its quarterly profit tripled, beating expectations, as rising interest rates worldwide boosted the lender’s income and helped it pay a first quarterly ...

Thousands of film and television writers headed to picket lines on Tuesday for their first work stoppage in 15 years, sending Hollywood into turmoil and disrupting TV production as the industry ...

Can inherently volatile cryptocurrencies become safe-havens? Apparently they can in some parts of the world, such as Argentina and Turkey, where soaring prices and tumbling local currencies have forced people ...

Qatar Airways could expand its number of destinations to more than 255 from 170 currently under plans for rapid growth, but its ability to do so depends on the delivery of additional ...

Inflation in the euro area is too high for comfort, meaning markets expect the European Central Bank to deliver its seventh straight interest rate hike on Thursday. With some stability ...

Currencies were in limbo on Monday as holidays in most of Asia made for thin trading, while traders braced for a packed week of central bank meetings that would offer ...

Hollywood writers and the film and television studios are racing to agree to a new contract to replace the one that expires at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time Monday. If they ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) will buy most of First Republic Bank’s (FRC.N) assets in a last-ditch rescue led by US regulators, marking the third major US ...

Italy’s right-wing government on Monday approved measures to boost job creation and workers’ pay, amid hostile reactions from unions and opposition parties over accompanying welfare cuts and looser rules ...

The U.S. Treasury Department is encouraged that First Republic Bank FRC.N was resolved with the least cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund, and believes the U.S. banking ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N said on Monday it will buy most of First Republic Bank’s FRC.N assets after regulators seized the troubled lender at the weekend, ...

Marilyn Nabor, an experienced high school mathematics teacher in the Philippines, moved to Italy 14 years ago with high hopes of honing her craft in the country of Galileo and Fibonacci. ...

By Maria Demertzis “Every night I ask myself why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar,” Brazil’s President Lula da Silva said in a 13 April speech ...

By George M. Georgiou In 2021 the World Bank became embroiled in a scandal involving its flagship publication Doing Business. An independent investigation by the law firm WilmerHale, published in September 2021, ...

Sony Group Corp (6758.T) said on Friday it expects this business year’s operating profit to slip from a record high as lower income from financial services offsets gains in ...

As the summer of 2022 came to a close, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his top lieutenants for a five-hour dissection of the company’s computing capacity, focused on its ability ...

By Tom Cassauwers The passenger planes of today are based on designs that have been fundamentally the same for decades. This means that flight times have also changed very little. ...

Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), a major supplier of chips and computing systems for artificial intelligence, on Tuesday released a set of software tools aimed at helping chatbots watch their language. ...

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) signaled on Thursday its long lofty cloud growth would slow further as its business customers braced for turbulence and clamped down on spending, overshadowing the ...

British businesses were their most optimistic in nearly a year in April, boosted by growing hopes about the economy, according to a Lloyds Bank survey on Friday that could add ...

Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways aims to triple the number of passengers it carriers to 30 million and nearly double its fleet to 150 planes by the end of the decade, the airline’...

British bank NatWest (NWG.L) posted better than expected profit for the first three months of 2023 as income soared 37 per cent, even as inflation hammered households and fierce pricing competition ...