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Oil edged up on Monday as upbeat manufacturing data from China, the world’s biggest crude importer, led to renewed optimism for fuel demand, although uncertainty about a Ukraine peace ...

By Maria Demertzis The need to accelerate defense spending is now inescapable. This is both feasible economically and will boost domestic demand in the short run, which will help the ...

EU-funded researchers are joining forces to meet consumer demands to know more about where seafood comes from, its carbon footprint and nutritional value. By Michael Allen While consumers are often ...

Dell (DELL.N) has forecast a decline in its adjusted gross margin rate for fiscal year 2026, hit by higher costs to build artificial intelligence servers in a fiercely competitive market, ...

Big investors are sensing that a fresh joint European borrowing effort is becoming more likely as the region scrambles to ramp up defence spending. The modest reaction across bond markets, ...

Women make up about 43 per cent of the boards of directors of Britain’s 350 biggest public companies, according to a government-backed report that also said more work was needed to ...

An era-defining week of geopolitics has boosted hopes for a European economic revival, not due to any peace dividend that could come from an end to the war in Ukraine, ...

British home prices will rise faster than previously expected this year, but the increase will be outpaced by surging rental costs as demand outstrips supply, a Reuters poll found. The ...

Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) internet search engine is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers’ ability to compete with its artificial intelligence-generated overviews, a US educational technology company ...

Eurozone inflation prospects improved while growth remained anaemic, fresh data showed on Friday, solidifying the case for further ECB rate cuts to stimulate an economy that has been stagnant for ...

British retailers plan to cut investment by the most in more than five years against a generally weak backdrop for consumer spending and rising costs, the Confederation of British Industry ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) has made an undisclosed equity investment in Veeam Software as part of an expanded partnership to build artificial intelligence products, the cloud data company said this week. ...

Adobe (ADBE.O) has announced that it is bringing its Photoshop app to mobile phones for the first time, offering both a free version and a paid version at the ...

Wall Street took a dim view of Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) quarterly forecast on Thursday with investors pushing the stock down more than 8 per cent, piling pressure on the “Magnificent ...

Turkey’s economy grew 3.0 per cent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2024, bringing full-year growth to 3.2 per cent, official data showed on Friday, exceeding forecasts despite the weight of high ...

Alpha Bank, Greece’s fourth largest bank by market value, upgraded its profit guidance on Friday after reporting a strong net profit for 2024 due to higher fee income and stable ...

The European Commission has proposed making available 100 billion euros ($104.94 billion) to support EU-made clean manufacturing as part its landmark Clean Industrial Deal. The deal is a key pillar of its ...

Washington’s push to swiftly end the conflict in Ukraine has sparked speculation that Western brands may want to return to Russia, but from fashion to cars, the markets they ...

Up to 160,000 part-time retail jobs in Britain are at risk of being lost over the next three years as a result of higher employer taxes and regulatory changes, the British ...

Apple (AAPL.O) shareholders voted to keep the tech giant’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies on Tuesday, a win for management which had opposed efforts by a conservative group ...

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways aims to announce the launch of a $1 billion initial public offering this week, two sources told Reuters, in what would be the first IPO of ...

‘There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.’ This quote often attributed to Lenin, may capture the moment. It is now a little more than ...

British employers advertised the fewest jobs for the month of January in four years last month but salaries continued to rise strongly, according to figures published on Monday that illustrate ...

German business morale unexpectedly stagnated in February, a survey showed this week, dealing a difficult hand to a future government following a national election in which parties promised to lift ...