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Almost three in 10 UK consumers plan to spend less in the festive period this year than last year, reflecting the impact of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, according to survey data ...

Euro zone inflation dropped to its lowest level in over two years in October, as energy prices fell and the high interest rates set by the European Central Bank dampened ...

Britons are turning to unregulated “buy-now-pay-later” credit in ever increasing numbers to pay their bills, the Financial Conduct Authority said on Tuesday, in the latest sign of how the country’...

The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates at their 15-year high on Thursday as it battles an inflation rate that is more than three times as high ...

Apple (AAPL.O) on Monday introduced new MacBook Pro and iMac computers and three new chips to power them, with the company saying it had redesigned its graphics processing units (...

Britain said on Monday it would legislate to implement its first set of rules to regulate the crypto sector, requiring market participants to be authorised before they can offer services ...

Treasury market participants expect US regulators to soon finalize a major rule aimed at reining in debt-fueled bets by hedge funds and bolstering financial stability. They worry it could also ...

Colgate-Palmolive (CL.N) last week raised its annual organic sales and profit forecasts for a third time this year, betting on price hikes and steady demand for its self-care and ...

Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Monday it will offer users in Europe a subscription plan to use Facebook and Instagram without advertisements to comply with the European Union regulations. ...

HSBC (HSBA.L) announced on Monday a fresh $3 billion share buyback, and a more than doubling of third-quarter profit that nonetheless disappointed as upward pressure on wages and technology spending ...

Toyota unveiled a Lexus concept car with a roughly 1,000-kilometre range on Wednesday that it aims to roll out by 2026, part of the Japanese automaker’s strategic pivot to EVs ...

Australia has rejected European Union proposals for a free trade agreement, and a deal is now unlikely to be reached for several years, Australian government ministers said on Monday. The ...

The global smartphone market displayed a glimmer of hope with a slight decline of 1 per cent during the third quarter 2023, according to a recent report by industry analysts Canalys. The ...

South Korean battery firm LG Energy Solution (LGES) (373220.KS) warned last week of slowing revenue growth in 2024 due to global economic uncertainties affecting the outlook for electric vehicle sales, sending ...

Amazon (AMZN.O) Web Services (AWS) said last week that it will launch a sovereign cloud in Europe for government and customers in highly regulated industries. The sovereign cloud will ...

Google-parent Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) cloud business crawled to its slowest in at least 11 quarters, sending the company’s stock down 5.7 per cent after hours, even as sales at rival ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) this week beat Wall Street estimates for fiscal first-quarter results in all segments, with its cloud computing and PC businesses growing as customers anticipate using its artificial-intelligence ...

Qualcomm this week gave details about a chip for Microsoft (MSFT.O) Windows-based laptops that it claims will be faster at some tasks than Apple’s (AAPL.O) chips for ...

By Ioannis Tirkides The killing of innocents and of non-combatants cannot be acceptable, and the Hamas attack of October 7, no matter its origins, has been an atrocious war crime. But ...

Consumer Reports said on Wednesday it had found “concerning” levels of lead and cadmium in a third of various chocolate products it tested recently, and called on Hershey (HSY.N) ...

Global hedge funds are making a beeline to set up shop in India, a market long-shunned by international investors, tempted both by its growing depth and liquidity and its emergence ...

Boeing’s (BA.N) defense business is proving harder to turn around than executives initially predicted, with supplier errors and high manufacturing costs contributing to $1.7 billion in losses this year ...

British watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday that it had identified potential “regulatory breaches” in NatWest’s handling of a decision to close former Brexit party leader Nigel ...

High interest rates are derailing the ambitions of climate regulators and automakers to accelerate the shift to electric vehicles, underscored Wednesday by the scrapping of a GM-Honda partnership and a ...