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The European Central Bank’s (ECB) governing council announced on Thursday that it has decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged, with inflation currently at the ECB’...

The Russian rouble’s 45 per cent rise against the US dollar since the start of the year has made it one of the world’s best performing currencies – but the ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) shares fell nearly 6 per cent in early trading in Europe on Thursday, after Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker posted its worst quarterly decline in sales in ...

Microsoft announced in a blog post on Wednesday that certain hackers linked to a cyberespionage operation targeting its SharePoint servers have begun deploying ransomware. This shift suggests the spying campaign ...

Britain and India are set to formally sign a free trade agreement on Thursday during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s UK visit, following three years of negotiations. The deal then ...

Industrial production in the European Union grew at an average annual rate of 0.6 per cent between 2000 and 2024, according to new data highlighting the modest long-term performance of the sector. In ...

Ratings agency Moody’s reported a rise in second quarter profit on Wednesday, driven by robust gains in its data and analytics unit and an increase in government borrowing. Demand ...

Pay settlements by British private-sector employers held at 3 per cent in the three months to June, representing a pay cut in inflation-adjusted terms for many workers, according to a survey ...

Environmental tax revenue in the European Union reached €341.5 billion in 2023, reflecting a 2.1 per cent increase from the €334.6 billion recorded in 2022, according to data published on Wednesday by Eurostat. Despite the ...

J D Wetherspoon (JDW.L) reported a rise in sales in recent weeks since May as people flocked to pubs for beers and sparkling wines amid hot weather in Britain. ...

Japan’s trade agreement with the US could serve as the benchmark for many other deals currently being negotiated with Washington, and the global economy could just about support the 15 ...

Alphabet (GOOGL.O), faced with unprecedented threats from AI rivals, will be keen to assure investors this week that the company’s own spending on the technology is helping it ...

A key driver of Tesla’s (TSLA.O) profit is disappearing fast as the US government changes policies on an environmental asset known as regulatory credits. Investors are likely to ...

British grocery price inflation rose to 5.2 per cent for the four weeks to July 13, its highest level since January last year, according to data from market researcher Worldpanel by Numerator, ...

Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research and explore investing in British AI infrastructure, such as data centres, the ...

JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) is exploring plans to offer loans backed by clients’ cryptocurrency holdings, including bitcoin and ethereum, as early as next year, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, ...

Oil prices declined for a third consecutive session on Tuesday on concerns the brewing trade war between major crude consumers the United States and the European Union will curb fuel ...

A sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft (MSFT.O) server software compromised about 100 organizations as of the weekend, two of the organizations that helped uncover the campaign said on Monday. ...

UK travellers could be paying as much as £189 for just four days of airport parking, according to new research by UK-based price comparison platform Confused.com. The data reveals that ...

The European Central Bank is set to pause for breath on Thursday after eight consecutive interest rate cuts, with the prospect of steeper-than-expected US tariffs looming. The threat tariffs pose ...

Greek consumers are showing growing signs of caution as they reduce their everyday spending and shift priorities heading into the summer. According to the latest data from Plum, a fintech ...

Leading German companies including Siemens (SIEGn.DE) and Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) announced a major investment initiative on Monday aimed at resuscitating investor confidence in Europe’s largest economy. The 61 ...

US startup funding surged 75.6 per cent in the first half of 2025, thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever, even as venture capital ...

Mark Zuckerberg said this week that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology ...