International

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 ...

Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) announced that its board has approved a new $6 billion share buyback program, boosting its total repurchase authority to about $10 billion. Shares of the ...

By Miranda Xafa In 1944 the victorious countries of World War II were invited to Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to decide the postwar world economic order and the architecture of the ...

Smartphone shipments to the US surged 30 per cent in March as manufacturers Apple (AAPL.O), Samsung (005930.KS) and Motorola rushed to bring more devices into the country in anticipation of ...

Britain’s jobs market cooled again last month, according to data that showed the impact of a tax hike on employers and Donald Trump’s trade tariffs but is likely ...

Moody’s on Friday downgraded its credit rating of the United States by a notch to “Aa1” from “Aaa”, citing rising debt and interest “that are significantly higher than similarly ...

Major foreign business chambers in Romania, including the US, UK and Germany, have voiced concern about what they described as a rapid deterioration of the investment climate and the credibility ...

Bank of England interest rate-setter Catherine Mann said she voted to keep borrowing costs on hold last week – having sought a big 50-basis point cut in February – because Britain’s ...

European Central Bank supervisors are asking some of the region’s lenders to assess their need for US dollars in times of stress, as they game out scenarios in which ...

Greece had the longest average weekly working hours in the European Union in 2024, according to data published this week by Eurostat. Greek workers spent an average of 39.8 hours per week ...

Global asset managers held their biggest underweight position in the dollar in 19 years in May, as President Donald Trump’s chaotic trade policy cut investor appetite for US assets, Bank ...

Burberry (BRBY.L) shares surged 18 per cent on Wednesday after the British luxury brand announced plans to shed 1,700 jobs or around a fifth of its global workforce to cut costs ...

Turkey’s finance minister said the country’s economic transformation was on track and that the country was prepared to deal with slower growth. Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said that ...

Goldman Sachs cut its recession forecast for the US to 35 per cent from 45 per cent, the first major brokerage to do so, after a temporary tariff truce with China boosted ...

Japan’s Honda Motor (7267.T) forecast a 59 per cent profit decrease in the current financial year and said it would put on hold a plan to build an EV supply ...