International

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 ...

In mid-March, as prices for US Treasury bonds swung wildly following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the trading desk at Legal & General Investment Management hit its top limits ...

A recent study published by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has highlighted the significant gender gap and wage disparity in the design industry within the EU. The study, ...

Egypt’s economy will grow 4.0 per cent this fiscal year and 4.5 per cent next even as it endures a continuing depreciation in its currency, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday, ...

Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) set a global annual output record in the business year ended in March, just edging past its target of 9.1 million vehicles as factory disruption ...

A California judge on Wednesday ordered Tesla CEO Elon Musk to be interviewed under oath about whether he made certain statements regarding the safety and capabilities of the carmaker’s ...

Barclays reported better than expected first-quarter profit on Thursday after a strong performance from its credit card business offset pressure on other business lines. The British bank’s pretax profit ...

Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) reported a better-than-expected 9 per cent rise in first-quarter profit on Thursday as income from higher interest rates offset a slump in revenues at the investment bank, ...

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Google-parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) talked up investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the second quarter in a row but their results on Tuesday suggested ...

The Bank of Israel on Monday named Lena Krupalnik, a veteran institutional investment manager, to oversee the country’s sovereign wealth fund which was set up in 2014 following the discovery ...

The European Union has agreed a deal to set binding targets for airlines in Europe to increase their use of sustainable aviation fuels, in an attempt to kickstart a market ...