International

Saudi Arabia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.4 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, preliminary data by the government’s statistical authority showed on Wednesday, driven by a 8.5 ...

Turkey wants to complete negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council by the end of the year, the Turkish trade ministry said on Wednesday, after Ankara ...

Procter & Gamble (PG.N) missed Wall Street expectations for fourth-quarter sales on Tuesday, on weak demand for its skincare products in major market China and waning price benefits in ...

Benign inflation data and a cooling job market aside, US credit conditions featuring tepid loan demand and stiff terms may also be bolstering confidence among Federal Reserve officials that price ...

PayPal (PYPL.O) on Tuesday raised its forecast for full-year adjusted profit for the second time, betting on resilient consumer spending in the back-to-school and upcoming holiday shopping seasons, while ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) is recalling over 1.8 million vehicles in the United States due to risk of software failure to detect an unlatched hood, the national auto safety regulator said on ...

The British competition regulator’s ongoing review of supermarket loyalty prices is unlikely to identify widespread evidence of promotions that mislead shoppers, according to a statement by the watchdog. Loyalty ...

Microsoft investors will have one big question after the tech giant reports earnings on Tuesday: has growth in its Azure cloud-computing business picked up enough to justify the billions of ...

Britain’s financial watchdog this week launched two reviews of retail conduct and insurance rules to cut costs and improve competitiveness, now that a strict new duty to put consumers ...

Russian technology company Yandex on Tuesday said it may start paying dividends for the first time, as it reported a sharp rise in core earnings after completing a lengthy and ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at a two-day policy meeting this week but open the door to interest rate cuts as soon as September by ...

Shares in Mitsubishi Motors (7211.T) surged on Monday following media reports that the Japanese automaker is in talks to join Nissan’s (7201.T) and Honda’s (7267.T) planned strategic partnership. ...

Uncertainty felt by British business leaders collapsed to the lowest level since before the 2016 Brexit vote after Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s landslide election victory, according to a survey by ...

Ferrari has announced that it will extend its scheme to accept payments in cryptocurrency for its luxury sports cars to its European dealers network from the end of this month, ...

A bruising selloff in US stocks is putting a sharper focus on valuations of the tech names such as Nvidia and Microsoft that have driven markets higher for most of ...

European companies focused on clean energy are abandoning expansion plans, bracing for lower sales or see funding of US projects in doubt because of fears over what a potential election ...

Oil prices rose on Monday, paring last week’s loss, on fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East following a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which ...

By Santiago Melián González & Jacques Bulchand Gidumal While tourism’s ability to create new jobs is indisputable, there is much talk of these jobs being low quality ...

Here are seven ways we can reclaim our attention spans By Teresa Rossignoli Palomeque With the summer holidays now upon us, many people will be looking forward to kicking back ...

EU-funded researchers are exploring new ways to learn that make science more relevant to everyday life – and more fun By Andrew Dunne  Frank Täufer, a scientific assistant at Campus ...

The Philippines gaming regulator will cancel the licenses of offshore gambling firms, most of them Chinese owned, and will work with law enforcement agencies to completely stamp out these operators, ...

Stellantis (STLAM.MI) is ready to “fight” for its place in Europe’s electric vehicle market against strong competition from Chinese carmakers, said CEO Carlos Tavares during a presentation of ...

Google is planning to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, it said this week, after years of pledging to phase out the tiny packets of code meant to track ...

Coca-Cola (KO.N) raised its annual sales and profit forecasts earlier this week, as a round of price increases failed to deter consumers mainly in international markets from spending more ...