International

Climate, quality and digital data will define tourism development over the next five years, according to the research director of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), who outlined key ...

Financial firms surveyed by the Bank of England ​last month did not expect ‌the central bank to raise interest rates this year, though they ​no longer expected rates to ​be ...

British lenders approved the most mortgages in four months in March while consumer lending grew at the fastest ​annual rate in over two years, according to Bank of England ‌data ...

Registrations of Tesla cars continued to rebound in France, Denmark and the Netherlands in April, but ​fast-moving Chinese rivals such as BYD (002594.SZ) kept chipping away ‌at the US electric ...

Global air cargo demand fell by 4.8 per cent year-on-year in March, reflecting significant disruption across key logistics hubs, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The decline was more ...

Exports of pharmaceutical products from the European Union to non-EU nations supported a record 926,000 jobs across the bloc during 2023, according to a report from Eurostat. This figure represents a significant ...

Financial markets are finding it harder to look past the rising economic costs of the Iran war as the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz prolongs the world’s ​...

Major fund managers are heralding a sustained rally in mining and metals as money floods into the sector at the fastest pace in years, driven by robust AI infrastructure, rising ​...

Global passenger demand increased by 2.1 per cent year-on-year in March, despite significant disruptions in key regions, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The figures showed that total capacity ...

Volkswagen could begin building its China-specific models in Europe for sale to local markets, or share plants ‌on the continent with Chinese partners, CEO Oliver Blume said earlier this week, ...

The timing was almost theatrical. All day Tuesday, Emirati officials and government-aligned accounts had seeded social media with hints that something transformative was coming. Then Mohammed bin Salman took his ...

Oilfield service companies that for years kept rigs and specialized equipment stored in Venezuela have begun removing them from warehouses for assembly and repair as the government ​advances a review ...

The euro has struggled against the dollar since the start of the Iran war, but it’s recently showing signs of securing ​a firmer footing. Technical analysis suggests buyers are ...

Unilever (ULVR.L) said this week it would raise prices to soften the hit from higher-than-expected ​costs driven by the Iran war, even as it reported first-quarter underlying sales growth ...

Short sellers’ bets against US life insurance stocks more than doubled in the past year to over $5 billion, a Reuters analysis of ORTEX data shows, a move that ​analysts say ...

British retailers reported the broadest year-on-year decline in sales in more than ​40 years as the Iran war raised households’ inflation fears, a ‌survey from the Confederation of British Industry showed ...

South Korea and Google have agreed to build an artificial-intelligence campus in Seoul to develop cooperation between the tech firm and ​local engineers and startups, Kim Yong-beom, a presidential policy ...

Samsung Electronics reported record ​quarterly profit earlier this week, driven by a 49-fold jump in chip income, saying it expects a severe supply shortage to deepen next year as clients ...

Eurostat has reported that seasonally adjusted GDP increased by only 0.1 per cent in both the euro area and the wider EU during the first quarter of 2026. This preliminary flash estimate ...

Visa shares jumped 5 per cent in premarket trading earlier this week as the payments-processing company beat estimates for second-quarter profit and lifted expectations for full-year earnings, buoyed by resilient consumer ...

Volvo Cars reported this week a smaller-than-expected fall in first-quarter operating profit, but said the ​impact of a pull-back of subsidies and other developments in the ‌United States had been ...

Alphabet topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Wednesday, as enterprise spending on artificial intelligence delivered the best quarter of reported growth for its cloud unit yet. Shares of ...

The Bank of England’s regulatory arm on Wednesday set out plans to tighten the capital treatment ​of funded reinsurance, a type of deal in which life insurers pass ‌on ...

Sberbank has cut ​its gross domestic product growth forecast for ‌Russia to 0.5 per cent to 1 per cent from between 1 per cent and 1.5 per cent, after a poor first-quarter economic performance. ...