Business
Oil prices steady with trade talks in focus
Oil prices were little changed on Wednesday as investors assessed trade developments between the European Union and the US after President…
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US: Wall St opens muted with corporate earnings, trade talks in focus
Wall Street opened flat on Tuesday (Jul 22) as investors weighed signs of potential trade deals between the US and its partners ahead of…
Business
HSBC Heaps Praise on Burberry, Says Focus on Outerwear, Authenticity Is Working
LONDON – HSBC has gone bullish on Burberry with a glowing report about the company’s prospects under CEO Josh Schulman, who’s been in the…
Business
US: Wall Street opens higher with tech earnings, trade updates in focus
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Monday (Jul 21), as investors welcomed the prospects of new trade deals to kick off a week…
News
Grant Shapps says his focus was on saving lives after Afghan data breach
Former defence secretary Grant Shapps has defended the decision to keep secret a data breach involving the details of thousands of Afghans…
News
New details in Air India crash probe shift focus to plane’s captain: WSJ
A COCKPIT recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow…
Business
Google to unveil new Pixel hardware on August 20 with AI in focus
The company’s market share in the US smartphone segment is tiny compared with Apple and Samsung Alphabet’s Google will debut new…
News
Gold nudges higher as focus turns to US tariff negotiations
Keeping gold gains in check, the US dollar and benchmark US 10-year Treasury yields held near multi-week highs Gold prices edged higher on…
Business
A focus on sustainability’s return on investment
For the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to apply my experience in sector diversified financial services, sustainability, and…
Business
US: S&P 500, Nasdaq open higher after inflation data; focus on bank earnings
The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 opened higher on Tuesday (Jul 15) after fresh inflation data, while banking heavyweights kicked off the…
Business
BOJ finishes offloading bank stocks, bringing focus to ETFs
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) finished selling millions of US dollars of stocks it bought from besieged banks during a domestic banking crisis…
Business
Europe: Stocks down with bank and healthcare drag, US-EU tariffs in focus
European shares closed lower on Friday (Jul 11), as losses in banks and healthcare stocks weighed at the end of a week marred by US…
Business
Europe: Mining, healthcare prop up shares; US-EU trade talks in focus
EUROPEAN shares closed higher on Thursday, with mining and healthcare stocks the biggest boosts as investors watched for signs of progress…
Business
Europe: Shares close at four-week high on banks boost; US trade talks in focus
EUROPEAN shares closed at a four-week high on Wednesday, with banks the biggest boost as investors awaited signs of progress on a trade…
Business
Funding focus: Biotech dominates Netherlands’ top 10 rounds in H1 2025
Funding focus is a new series analysing cash flow into the European tech ecosystem. After debuting with a look at the biggest rounds so…
Business
Europe: Shares rise on tech, banks boost with focus on US trade negotiations
EUROPEAN shares ended higher on Monday, driven by gains in technology and bank stocks at the start of a week where investors are on the…
Celebrity
‘The Office’ Actor Craig Robinson Is ‘Officially Quitting Comedy’ to Focus on His ‘True Calling’: ‘I’m Following Something Bigger’
Craig Robinson is leaving comedy for good. In a recent video post on Instagram, “The Office” actor revealed that he is giving up comedy to…
Business
US: S&P 500, Nasdaq dip from record highs with Trump tax bill in focus
S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes opened lower on Tuesday (Jul 1), after touching record highs a day earlier, as investors monitored US trade…
Business
Gold inches higher as dollar softens, focus shifts to US economic data
Markets are awaiting US GDP data due later in the day and Personal Consumption Expenditures data on Friday Gold prices nudged higher on…
Business
US: Wall St indexes open higher with Trump's Middle East decision in focus
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Jun 20), tracking strength in global stocks after President Donald Trump held off from…
Lifestyle
Replace Fear with Focus: How Meditation Changed My Leadership
Fear is a natural human emotion, but I’ve learned not to let it control my life. While we can’t stop ourselves from feeling scared, we can…
Business
Asia: Stocks drop after Fed warning, oil dips with Middle East in focus
Asian stocks fell on Thursday after the Federal Reserve warned Donald Trump’s trade war would likely reignite US inflation and dampen…
Fashion
Groundbreaking Fashions Focus of Tokyo Exhibition
TOKYO — A virtual fashion museum owned by one of Japan’s most influential vintage stores is venturing into the physical realm with a new…
Business
Asian Markets Edge Higher as Trade Talks Show Progress, Inflation Data in Focus
Asian markets edged up cautiously on Wednesday as investors were kept in check by some muted moves on the trade front. The latest meetings…