International

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is planning to produce chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology at its new factory in the US state of Arizona but the plans are not completely finalised yet, ...

German house prices will fall 3.5 per cent next year as the cost of living crisis and rising borrowing costs hits consumers, but the chances of an outright crash are low, ...

Financial technology companies, long seen as a threat by the likes of JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), are increasingly becoming acquisition targets for traditional US banks as rising interest ...

Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google this week introduced rules for inviting guest speakers to its offices, days after it canceled a talk by an Indian historian who has disparaged ...

Countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the COP27 climate summit early on Sunday that sets up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters – but does ...

A federal judge sentenced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to 11 years and three months in prison for defrauding investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup that was once valued at $9 billion. In ...

By Maria Demertzis The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the main component of the European Union’s post-COVID-19 Next Generation EU programme, was adopted two and a half years ago. ...

U.S. retail sales increased more than expected in October as households stepped up purchases of motor vehicles and a range of other goods, suggesting consumer spending picked up early ...

Saudi Arabia has signed investment agreements worth around $30 billion with South Korean companies, Asharq TV quoted the Kingdom’s investment minister Khalid Al-Falih as saying on Thursday. The Saudi-based TV ...

Italy’s new prime minister Giorgia Meloni needs urgently to rein in a bloated pension system that absorbs most social spending and looks increasingly unsustainable in the face of surging ...

The dollar on Wednesday traded just above multi-month lows against most majors as flows that had supported the safe-haven currency slowed after Joe Biden said a missile that caused an ...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned G20 leaders on Tuesday against allowing trade protectionism to “take root” and said the fragmentation of the world economy into geopolitical blocs ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she hopes President Joe Biden’s meeting on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping leads to increased engagement on macroeconomic issues between the ...

Some members of the shared economy are seeing a resurgence in the side hustle as inflation bites. People are becoming more interested in driving for Uber Technologies (UBER.N) and ...

By Elvire Fabry The speeches of the US Trade Representative Katherine Tai are so cautious that it has taken nearly two years to understand the US trade policy of President ...

Sam Bankman-Fried earned a reputation as saviour of the crypto industry when he bailed out two platforms earlier this year. But when FTX, the exchange he co-founded and led until ...

Elon Musk’s revelation that Twitter has suffered a “massive” revenue drop since he took over 10 days ago underscores the precarious nature of the social media company’s finances after ...

Household cash is near record levels in the United States, and consumers are using it to pack restaurants and airplanes and buy new cars. Jobs are there for the taking. ...

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing people familiar with ...

Ratings agency S&P on Friday raised Qatar’s long-term sovereign credit rating to “AA” from “AA-“, citing improvements in the government’s fiscal position. “Qatar’s debt interest ...

American technology giant Apple continued to dominate the tablet market during the third quarter of the year, with a 40.7 per cent share, according to a report released this week by ...

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) posted a quarterly loss on Thursday that missed Wall Street targets due to restructuring of the combined media company, but investor concerns were tempered by ...

By Maria Demertzis Talking about engaging with Russia while the war in Ukraine grinds on is both difficult and hard to justify. However, the day will come when Putin is ...

EBay Inc’s (EBAY.O) quarterly results beat Wall Street targets on Wednesday as inflation-wary shoppers snapped up refurbished goods and the ecommerce platform reaped the benefits of expanding its ...