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Anthropic, a startup backed by Alphabet (GOOGL.O) and Amazon.com (AMZN.O), released a pair of updated artificial intelligence models this week, along with a new capability to autonomously ...

Dutch brewer Heineken’s (HEIN.AS) third-quarter sales figures beat forecasts earlier this week, buoyed by higher priced and non-alcoholic beers, but full-year guidance was left unchanged. The world’s ...

The European Union, rushing to develop a 9 million euro joint purchasing mechanism for critical minerals and energy, is choosing between eight bidders vying to develop a platform, documents showed and ...

Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is imposing severe price caps on what merchants can charge for their products on a new low-cost storefront that the e-commerce giant is preparing to launch, ...

Robinhood recently launched its long-awaited desktop platform and added futures and index options trading features to its mobile app, as the fintech firm aims to take market share from traditional ...

IBM (IBM.N) released the latest version of its artificial intelligence models catered towards businesses this week, looking to capitalize on the surge in enterprises adopting generative AI technology. “Granite 3.0” ...

Greece’s BBB- economy is set on a positive path, with public debt reduction, banking resilience, and structural reforms driving a forecasted debt-to-GDP decline, according to German-based Scope Ratings. In ...

Eurozone business activity stalled again this month, remaining in contractionary territory as demand from both home and abroad fell despite firms barely increasing their prices, a survey showed this week. ...

British businesses reported their slowest growth in 11 months in October and hiring shrank for the first time this year as uncertainty ahead of the Labour government’s first budget dampened ...

Barclays (BARC.L) reported a forecast-beating 18 per cent rise in third-quarter profit on Thursday, as slower than expected interest rate cuts and upbeat investment banking prospects helped it raise its ...

Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s biggest economy, attracted foreign direct investment inflows of 96 billion riyals ($25.6 billion) in 2023, beating official targets, according to government data based on a new calculation ...

The war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah is expected to wipe 9 per cent off Lebanon’s national wealth as measured by GDP, the United Nations said this week, with ...

Germany would be the big loser if a Trump presidency sparked a tit-for-tat trade war between the United States and Europe, with Germany’s previously much-envied industrial strength potentially becoming ...

More than three quarters of Britain’s financial sector bosses plan to push workers to spend more time in the office over the next 12 months, according to a survey of 150 ...

European Central Bank policymakers have begun to debate whether interest rates need to be lowered enough to start stimulating the economy, ending years of economic restriction, conversations this week with ...

Coca-Cola (KO.N) is aiming to hit the higher end of its organic sales forecast for 2024 as growing demand for its higher-priced sodas and juices in the US helped it ...

There are not yet enough indications that the eurozone’s inflation could drift further down or up to change the European Central Bank’s central scenario for further rate cuts, ...

A sharp fall in British consumer price inflation in September was driven by more volatile components, Bank of England rate-setter member Megan Greene said on Tuesday when asked how it ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported a significant increase in global passenger demand, with its chief, Willie Walsh, cautioning that this surge could soon lead to an infrastructure ...

War, inflation and Britain’s departure from the European Union led to a 17 per cent fall in job vacancies in London’s financial services sector in the third quarter versus ...

Asking prices for British homes rose only marginally in October as more properties came onto the market, according a survey on Monday that also suggested some buyers were waiting for ...

Global stocks kicked off the week on the back foot on Monday, after strong gains last week, while increasing bets on Donald Trump winning the looming US presidential election helped ...

Global finance chiefs will gather in Washington this week amid intense uncertainty over wars in the Middle East and Europe, a flagging Chinese economy and worries that a coin-toss US ...

Oil prices edged up in Asian trading on Monday, following a more than 7 per cent drop last week on worries about demand in China, the world’s top oil importer, ...