International

A see-saw year for the US economy in 2025 looks set to give way to a stronger 2026 thanks to tailwinds from President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, less uncertainty around tariffs, ...

Greek banks are preparing to present their updated strategies and business plans to the international investment community in London in March, as they enter a more expansionary phase following the ...

Living buildings, quantum computers, safety by design, home robots and AI-assisted pandemic preparedness. Europe’s researchers are reshaping how we live, work and design our cities in 2026. By Anthony King ...

Meta Platforms is buying AI startup Manus to deepen its push into agentic AI, aiming to embed the technology across its platforms as competition for next-generation AI intensifies. Here is ...

Economists see the tax cuts in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill as a principal driver of the US economy in 2026, both for individuals and businesses. Here’s some detail ...

Eurosystem total assets and liabilities rose by €28.95 billion during the week ending December 26, 2025, reaching a consolidated total of €6.16 trillion as part of its regular financial reporting. Gold and gold receivables ...

A widespread power outage in San Francisco that led to Waymo robotaxis stalling and snarling traffic earlier this month has raised concerns about the readiness of autonomous vehicle operators to ...

Meta announced this week that it would acquire Chinese-founded artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the technology giant accelerates efforts to integrate advanced AI across its platforms. Financial terms of the ...

Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence startup xAI has bought a third building to expand its infrastructure, aiming to boost training capacity to nearly 2 gigawatts of compute power. ...

The European Central Bank has warned that weakening central bank independence risks undermining price stability, as new research reviewing 50 years of global data showed that independent central banks are consistently ...

The European Commission has published updated guidelines detailing the next phase of the European Union‘s comprehensive ban on Russian diamonds. According to the commission, the aim is to further ...

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production is expected to have doubled in 2025 but will continue to account for less than one per cent of global jet fuel consumption, according to new ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recently published the latest edition of its Spotlight on Markets newsletter, outlining key regulatory developments across the European Union aimed at strengthening market ...

Bulgarian banks, businesses and shoppers were preparing this week to say goodbye to the lev currency ahead of a move to adopt the euro on January 1, a long-awaited milestone met ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published research findings recently, evaluating how its fund naming guidelines have influenced the use of ESG and sustainability-related terms to better protect investors ...

Requests to relocate abroad by Israelis working at multinational companies operating in Israel rose in the past year in reaction to Israel’s two-year war against Palestinian militant group Hamas, ...

Aegean Airlines announced that it has set January 2, 2026 as the record date for beneficiaries of the first interest period of its Common Bond Loan, clarifying key payment and trading details ...

At a moment when European shipping is under pressure to prove both its resilience and strategic relevance, the European Community Shipowners’ Association (ECSA) marked 60 years of institutional presence with a ...

Nvidia (NVDA.O) has purchased Intel shares worth $5 billion, the American semiconductor firm (INTC.O) said in a filing on Monday, carrying out a transaction announced in September. The leading ...

Generative AI and agentic AI are fundamentally reshaping how telecommunications operators interact with their subscribers, according to a new report from Omdia titled The Future of Customer Experience in Telecoms. ...

The US stock market is closing the books on a third straight year of double-digit percentage gains. A fourth stellar year in 2026 may be a tall order, requiring strong earnings, ...

It was a Thursday before dawn in Silicon Valley when Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan found himself under attack by the president of the United States. “The CEO of INTEL is ...

The global semiconductor market delivered a record-breaking performance in the third quarter of 2025, according to market intelligence firm Omdia, with industry revenue reaching $216.3 billion to mark the first time the ...

Global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached a record $102.6 billion in the third quarter of 2025, according to new research from Omdia, as enterprises shifted their focus from early AI experimentation ...