International

The Russian rouble weakened past the symbolic threshold of 100 to the dollar before recovering slightly in early trade on Tuesday, weighed down by foreign currency outflows and the country’s ...

Birkenstock, the German premium footwear brand backed by private-equity firm L Catterton, said on Monday it is seeking a valuation of up to $9.2 billion in its highly anticipated US initial ...

The US bond market is calling a moment: the age of low interest rates and inflation that began with the 2008 financial crisis has ended. What follows is unclear. The market’...

Euro zone manufacturing activity remained mired in a deep and broad-based downturn last month, according to a survey which showed on Monday that demand kept shrinking at a pace rarely ...

Researchers at a top Mexican agricultural university this week showed the progress they had made in producing more non-GM yellow corn seeds to help replace imported grain from the United ...

Europe’s solar power industry has warned policymakers not to impose tariffs on imports, amid fears that disrupting supplies of products from China would seriously damage Europe’s ability to ...

For Josh Hughes-Davies, the best thing about his job in a bar in the coastal city of Brighton is the free meal with every shift. For his manager, Barrie Chapman, ...

Japan’s move to bar most used-car sales to Russia slammed the brakes on a trade nearing $2 billion annually that had boomed in the shadow of sanctions over Ukraine elsewhere, ...

Cow, goat and poultry farms are getting help from EU research to cut their environmental footprint and ensure high-quality foods. By Pieter Devuyst Livestock farmers in Germany, Italy, Sweden and ...

Touch sensations are improving to help sectors like healthcare and manufacturing, while other advances are being driven by the gaming industry. By Helen Massy-Beresford Imagine a single technology that could ...

ChatGPT users will now be able to surf the web, Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI said on Wednesday, expanding the data the viral chatbot can access beyond its earlier September 2021 cutoff. ...

Micron Technology (MU.O) on Wednesday forecast a wider than expected first-quarter loss, and its shares sank 2.4 per cent even as it prepares to ramp up production of new product ...

Norway’s data regulator will refer the ongoing fine it has imposed on Meta Platforms (META.O) to the European data authority, it said on Thursday, a move that could ...

Meta Platforms (META.O) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg this week rolled out new AI products for consumers, including bots that create photo-realistic images and smart glasses that answer questions, as ...

Sony Group (6758.T) is increasing its focus on the virtual production business where it is seeing market-beating growth, a company executive said, riding on the strength of the Japanese entertainment ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Liberal democracy has long been in retreat, and more so in the last ten years as widely documented in multiple studies and reports. Two examples are the ...

German retail sales unexpectedly fell in August, as persistently high inflation took its toll on consumption in the euro zone’s largest economy. German retail sales fell by 1.2 per cent ...

Unseasonably warm autumn weather from the United States to Europe is denting sales of heavy sweaters and coats as the critical holiday shopping period approaches, executives at major retailers including ...

Fiscal concerns and worries over a prolonged period of elevated interest rates sent government bonds tumbling in the third quarter, and some investors believe more weakness is in store. US ...

Britain’s economic performance since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has been stronger than previously thought, with faster growth than Germany or France, according to revisions to official data ...

German inflation is likely to ease significantly in September based on data from five key German states on Thursday, signalling what could be the beginning of the end for high ...

Crypto companies are descending on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, but their push to advance industry-friendly laws is likely to be overshadowed by a fight over the federal budget and a ...

Brazil’s central bank governor Roberto Campos Neto on Wednesday said policymakers are aiming to tighten cryptocurrency regulation and subject brokerages to their supervision. Speaking during a hearing in Congress, ...

Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) said on Thursday that a major IT outage, which had caused most of its German plants to halt production, was resolved overnight and its global production ...