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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. ...

Britain’s economy faces a sharp slowdown this year and in 2027 due to the Iran war, and inflation will stay above the Bank of England’s target until 2028, according to ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) on Wednesday reported that the annual growth rate of the Eurozone broad monetary aggregate M3 climbed to 3.2 per cent in March, up from 3.0 per cent ...

Household real consumption per capita increased by 0.5 per cent in the euro area during the fourth quarter of 2025, following a 0.4 per cent rise in the previous quarter, according to a ...

British businesses ramped up their expectations for selling prices in the year ahead, according to a survey published by the Bank ​of England that added to a run of ‌strong ...

Federal Reserve policymakers will gather in Washington this week in what may be Jerome Powell’s last meeting as head of the US central bank, with energy prices still elevated ...

Dry cargo ship values are rising faster than freight rates can justify, pointing to a structural revaluation of larger vessels rather than a short-term market cycle, according to Xclusiv Shipbrokers.  ...

The Bank of England will keep interest rates on hold this week ​and try to look ahead to the damage building up for Britain’s economy from the Iran war, ...

Revolut announced that it would wind down its commodities product in some European countries, giving customers ​a two-month deadline to sell their holdings. The British finance app’s ‌commodities business ...

Greece’s Energy Ministry on Monday confirmed that it is in advanced technical discussions with the European Commission to secure funding support for the independent transmission system operator Admie through ...

Europe’s ​biggest broadcasters and media groups warned EU regulators that a planned law to ‌curb unfair digital practices should target Big Tech, not publishers and broadcasters already heavily regulated, ...

Growth in frontier AI models has slowed significantly, while smaller and midsized models are rapidly expanding in both capability and adoption, according to market intelligence firm Omdia. The findings were ...

Greek consumers are adopting a more structured and strategic approach to spending on beauty and wellness products, according to a Revolut survey conducted by market research company Dynata. The findings ...

Apple’s leadership change is the start of a new phase for the iPhone maker, in which the focus will be on whether its deep hardware heritage can be successfully ​...