International

Italy is under growing market scrutiny as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni prepares a difficult 2024 budget, with investors dismayed by government moves affecting sectors from banks to airlines. The Treasury will ...

The dollar stood by 10-month highs against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday, supported by US bond yields scaling 16-year peaks, while the yen tiptoed deeper into the intervention ...

Amazon.com (AMZN.O) on Monday said it will invest up to $4 billion in cash in the high-profile startup Anthropic, in its effort to compete with growing cloud rivals on ...

State oil giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) (TAQA.AD) said on Monday they secured the financing for a $2.2 billion project to ...

Britain’s pensions industry, Europe’s biggest, is posing a new challenge to the country’s 2 trillion pound ($2.5 trillion) government bond market a year on from the “mini-budget” crisis that ...

The European Central Bank has reached the point where it needs to be wary of raising interest rates too high and should try to avoid a hard landing of the ...

Britain’s decision to delay a ban on new fossil fuel car sales may make little difference to the pace of a shift to electric vehicles (EVs), even though the ...

A US sanctions authority delayed for months KFC’s exit from Russia this year after commenting on an “exit tax” for departing foreign firms when the deal was on the ...

Major drugmakers are using artificial intelligence to find patients for clinical trials quickly, or to reduce the number of people needed to test medicines, both accelerating drug development and potentially ...

As new technologies reshape workplaces, EU research has come up with new ways to help companies and workers stay in control. By Andrew Dunne Professor Steven Dhondt has a reassurance ...

Broadcom (AVGO.O) tumbled 6 per cent on Thursday after The Information reported Google executives had discussed dropping the company as a supplier of artificial intelligence chips as early as 2027. Alphabet-owned (...

A Polish watchdog is investigating Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI over a complaint that its ChatGPT chatbot breaks European Union data protection laws known as the GDPR, it said. OpenAI has ...

OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled Dall-E 3, the latest version of its text-to-image tool that uses its wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to help fill in prompts. Dall-E 3 will be available to ...

Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) has agreed to buy cybersecurity firm Splunk (SPLK.O) for about $28 billion in its biggest-ever deal to beef up its software business and capitalize on the ...

A softening employment market in Britain “must weaken” consumer demand in 2024/25, the boss of clothing retailer Next (NXT.L), said on Thursday. “I’m not going to try and predict ...

By Maria Demertzis At the heart of the EU’s legitimacy as an institution is its treaties. These agreements on what Europeans need to do together to achieve common goals ...

British retail sales partially recovered in August after a rainy July washout, official figures showed on Friday, adding to signs that the country’s consumers were mostly coping with the ...

Turkey’s central bank raised its key interest rate by a lofty 500 basis points to 30 per cent on Thursday, marking a second month of aggressive tightening after President Tayyip Erdogan ...

When Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest son of media titan Rupert Murdoch, was named the sole chairman of News Corp (NWSA.O) Thursday, the announcement put to rest immediate questions about ...

Travel boom has delivered bumper earnings for US carriers, but no-frills airlines such as Frontier (ULCC.O) and Spirit (SAVE.N) are struggling to return to sustainable profitability. That has ...

Ryanair (RYA.I) said on Thursday it will cut 17 routes from its winter schedule at Dublin airport and move all 19 of its new Boeing 737 MAX planes to other European airports ...

US employers are bracing for the largest increase in health insurance costs in a decade next year, according forecasts from healthcare consultants, but workers may be somewhat spared this time ...

Jet engine maker CFM International said on Wednesday thousands of engine components may have been sold with forged paperwork by a British distributor, as the fallout from a probe into ...

Walt Disney (DIS.N) CEO Bob Iger told investors the company will “quiet the noise” in a culture war that has pitted social conservatives against the global media and entertainment ...