International

QatarEnergy will buy a 23 per cent stake from Chevron (CVX.N) in an offshore exploration block in Egyptian waters, it said on Monday. QatarEnergy has in recent years acquired stakes ...

Bitcoin soared to a record high above $82,000 on Monday on expectations that cryptocurrencies will boom in a favourable regulatory environment following the election of Donald Trump as US president and ...

Lisbon will this week play host to Europe’s biggest annual tech conference, Web Summit, where industry leaders and lawmakers will weigh the pros and cons of Donald Trump’s ...

There is a disconnect between the perceived and actual cyber readiness among global enterprises, according to a survey by IT services firm Kyndryl. The survey, titled ‘Cyber Gauge 2024: Navigating the ...

German sportswear maker Puma’s (PUMG.DE) third-quarter sales missed expectations due to sluggish demand and as weaker currencies in markets like Mexico, Argentina and Japan weighed on its revenue ...

Swiss bank UBS (UBSG.S) announced that it has successfully piloted a blockchain-based payment system it has developed to improve the efficiency of cross-border transactions known as UBS Digital Cash. ...

New car registrations in the UK fell for the second time this year, dropping 6 per cent to 144,288 in October, according to a report based on industry data. The Society of ...

The UK’s financial regulator has laid out plans to ensure investors in bonds and derivatives markets have access to more information and that firms lower costs by making investment ...

By Maria Demertzis The private sector can cover at least half of the investment gap identified in Mario Draghi’s competitiveness report but will only do so if the EU’...

Physical Intelligence, a startup that is developing foundational software for robots, has announced that it has raised $400 million in early-stage funding from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, venture capital firms ...

South Korea has ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) to pay 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) in fines after finding it had collected sensitive user data and given it to advertisers ...

A consortium of financial technology and cryptocurrency companies including Robinhood (HOOD.O), Kraken and Galaxy Digital (GLXY.TO) this week introduced a joint stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. The ...

Nintendo this week cut its operating profit forecast for the year to March 2025 by 10 per cent to 360 billion yen ($2.36 billion), as its ageing Switch console loses steam. The latest forecast ...

The US Supreme Court is set to consider bids by two tech giants – Meta’s (META.O) Facebook and Nvidia (NVDA.O) – to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in ...

British house prices hit a new record high in October but the 0.2 per cent rise from September was the smallest in three months and demand could remain subdued if interest ...

Alpha Bank (ACBr.AT), Greece’s fourth-largest lender by market value, reported higher net earnings in the January-September period compared to the same period in 2023, on lower provisions and strong ...

Eurozone firms expect their turnover to keep rising this quarter but their margins remain under pressure with wage growth outpacing selling price increases, the European Central Bank said in a ...

German software developer TeamViewer (TMV.DE) raised its outlook for adjusted core profit margin for the full year after better-than-expected profitability in the third quarter following a reduced sponsorship deal ...

The Bank of England cut interest rates on Thursday for only the second time since 2020 and said future reductions were likely to be gradual, seeing higher inflation and growth after ...

Oil prices ticked up on Thursday following a sell-off triggered by the US presidential election, as risks to oil supply from a Trump presidency and a hurricane building in the ...

Britain’s services sector lost momentum in the run-up to the new government’s first budget in October, with business activity growing at the weakest rate in 11 months and the ...

With any other president, promises of less regulation and lower corporate taxes would have Wall Street’s deal machine salivating at the prospect of a feeding frenzy. Not so with ...

Big-name retailers such as Walmart (WMT.N) are increasingly using analytics to blunt the impact of one of the most unpredictable performance variables of shopping: weather. Weather data, once used ...

A Donald Trump victory in the race for the White House is widely seen as bullish for European defence stocks, given his warnings to scale back US military support in ...