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US companies across sectors have initiated layoffs as they attempt to streamline operations amid economic uncertainties, following similar cutbacks seen last year. Job openings — a measure of labor demand — decreased 288,000 ...

The Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) has announced that registrations for Robotex MRC Cyprus 2025 will close on May 29. The major educational robotics event will take place on June 28-29, 2025, at the ...

Asking prices for homes put up for sale in Britain have risen by the least for the late spring period since 2016, according to data published this week that added to ...

State-owned Qatar Airways posted an annual net profit of a record 7.8 billion riyals ($2.1 billion) for the 2024 financial year ended March 31, up 28 per cent from a year earlier, the company announced, ...

Oil prices dropped by 1 per cent on Friday and were set for their first weekly decline in three weeks as US President Donald Trump recommended a 50 per cent tariff on ...

Chinese automaker BYD sold more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla (TSLA.O) for the first time, according to a report by JATO Dynamics, as an aging model lineup and ...

The European Union is set to delay new, global rules governing banks’ trading again as it waits for more clarity about the US administration’s plans to deregulate its financial ...

Oil prices dropped by more than 1 per cent on Thursday after a report that OPEC+ is discussing a production increase for July, stoking concerns that global supply could exceed demand ...

The European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates once again in June but the case is growing for a pause beyond that as the economy is holding up ...

British airline easyJet (EZJ.L) said on Thursday it was seeing strong demand for flights and holidays, and current summer bookings were tracking ahead of last year, giving it confidence ...

The outlook for the US economy remains weak despite a temporary cooling of the US-China trade war, a Reuters poll of economists showed, with a debate over the country’s ...

Just under half of Greeks feel insecure about their financial future, according to new research released by fintech firm Plum. The survey found that 26 per cent of Greeks feel very ...

Britain’s economy will grow a bit faster this year than thought a month ago, a Reuters poll of economists predicted, partly due to unexpectedly strong growth in the first ...

The group of governments whose bonds get the highest ranking just got smaller, after the United States lost its last triple-A credit rating from Moody’s. The agency on Friday ...

Britain is to regulate buy now, pay later (BNPL) lenders from next year in a shift the government said would give shoppers stronger rights and more protections from the “wild ...

Small Indian grocery shops and major online fashion retailers are boycotting Turkish products ranging from chocolates, coffee, jams and cosmetics to clothing amid growing anger at Turkey’s support for ...

EU-funded researchers are exploring the role of architecture in designing living spaces that harness the healing power of nature to improve the health and well-being of urban populations. By Valerie ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) investors had pinned their hopes on a refresh of the company’s flagship compact SUV to reinvigorate sales. But rock-bottom financing deals for the Model Y and ...

EU antitrust regulators, who are examining European satellite company SES’s (SESFg.LU) $3.1-billion bid for Intelsat, have asked the two companies’ customers whether Elon Musk’s Space X-owned Starlink ...

Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) has been demonstrating to employees and outside developers an array of different products, including an AI agent for software development, ahead of its annual developer ...

Austrian advocacy group NOYB said this week it would seek an injunction against Meta Platforms (META.O) that could lead to billion-euro damages claims if the tech giant goes ahead ...

Sony (6758.T) said this week that it expects operating profit to rise 0.3 per cent to 1.28 trillion yen ($8.7 billion) in the financial year ending in March, after factoring in a 100 billion ...

Kraft Heinz (KHC.O) is spending $3 billion to upgrade its US factories, its largest investment in its plants in a decade, even as executives say consumer sentiment is at its ...

Amazon (AMZN.O) has hired FedEx (FDX.N) to handle some of its large package deliveries, the companies said on Monday, weeks after UPS said it was halting its less-profitable ...