International

By Miranda Xafa In an international environment of great turmoil and rapid change over the past year, Greece has stood out as a pole of political and economic stability in ...

The most destructive wildfires ever for Los Angeles may cause billions of dollars in insured losses, ratings agencies said this week, though many homes are likely uninsured. The wildfires burning ...

By Michael Timothy Bennett & Elija Perrier A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”. On December 20, OpenAI’s ...

British households’ expectations for inflation rose in December, according to a survey that may add to concerns among investors about the slow pace of future interest rate cuts by the ...

Ryanair (RYA.I) plans to operate a full schedule of flights from Tel Aviv this summer and is hopeful that Ben Gurion Airport will reopen its shuttered Terminal 1, senior executive ...

Samsung Electronics’ (005930.KS) preliminary fourth-quarter operating profit missed estimates by a large margin, with the South Korean tech giant hit hard by extra costs as it works towards providing high-end ...

In a first, the EU General Court ruled this week that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection ...

Quantum computing stocks sank on January 8, pausing a year-long rally, after Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said the technology’s practical use was likely two decades away. The long ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) said on Friday it was recalling about 239,000 vehicles over an issue that could cause the rear-view camera to not display an image, but it could be resolved ...

US investors pulled out of equity funds and moved to the safety of money market funds in the week to Jan. 8 driven by uncertainties about the Fed’s interest rate ...

Sterling continued its slide on Friday, its fourth day of falls, as elevated global bond yields kept the currency under pressure. The pound was down 0.17 per cent against the dollar ...

Global auto suppliers are working out how much of their production can be moved to the United States, or closer to it, as a defense against tariffs promised by President-elect ...

Rachel Reeves is facing her first major test as Britain’s finance minister after the government’s borrowing costs jumped sharply this week and the pound tumbled, potentially forcing her ...

Eurozone retail sales grew less than expected in November, confirming that consumption remains in the doldrums and adding to a recent string of gloomy data about the health of the ...

Oil prices were little changed on Thursday as investors weighed firm winter fuel demand expectations against large US fuel inventories and macroeconomic concerns. Brent crude futures were down 3 cents at $76.13 ...

British businesses expect to raise prices and reduce headcount in response to an increase in employers’ social security contributions that will take effect in April, a Bank of England survey ...

Apple (AAPL.O) clarified on Wednesday that it has never sold the data collected by its Siri voice assistant or used it to create marketing profiles, just days after settling ...

From China to Europe, Canada to Mexico, world markets are already reeling from Donald Trump’s promise to jack up tariffs when he becomes U.S. president in less than ...

UK investors added a record 27.2 billion pounds ($34 billion) to their stock holdings in 2024, funds network Calastone said on Wednesday, as a surge in investments in index-tracker funds dominated. The net ...

Israeli cybersecurity firms raised $4 billion in 2024, more than double that of 2023, led by firms seeking to protect the cloud along with a surge in artificial intelligence, global venture capital firm ...

Sterling slid for a second day on Wednesday against a generally firmer US dollar, despite British long-term borrowing costs sitting at around their highest since 1998. Solid US data on Tuesday ...

Major central banks in December delivered their biggest policy easing push since the spring 2020 COVID rate-cutting frenzy, with the latest moves making the annual 2024 easing effort the biggest in 15 years ...

The volume of global crude exports in 2024 declined 2 per cent, the first fall since the COVID-19 pandemic, shipping data showed, due to weak demand growth and as refinery and pipeline ...

British house prices dropped unexpectedly last month for the first time since March although they finished the year higher than in December 2023, figures from mortgage lender Halifax showed on Tuesday. ...