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Wall Street Rises Friday but Posts Weekly Loss as Yields and Iran Uncertainties Linger
U.S. stocks bounced Friday on strong services data, but all three major indexes still fell for the week as bond yields a...
US-Iran Standoff Pushes Brent Past $93, Gold Above $4,500 and Squeezes Rate-Sensitive Stocks
The week's geopolitical escalation drove energy and gold sharply higher, but a surprise US Treasury long-end buyback ext...
Montenegro Adds €500,000 in Hotel Energy-Efficiency Grants, Capping Awards at €50,000
A second Eko-fond call will co-finance solar, heat-pump, LED and building-management upgrades for hotels, with new eligi...
Why M&A Culture Is Set by the CEO's Earliest Trade-Offs
Mergers force rapid decisions on brands, portfolios and people. Leaders often treat culture as a later fix, but those ea...
Japan's Core Inflation Accelerates to 1.8% in July, Raising BoJ Rate Bets
Japanese core CPI rose 1.8% year-on-year in July, a second straight acceleration, while government energy measures cloud...
Anthropic's Public Debut Arrives as AI Backlash Becomes a Formal Risk
The Claude maker is heading for a record listing while investors, voters and politicians push back on AI data centres. I...
Romanian F-16s Down Suspected Russian Drone Near EU Gas Project Neptun Deep
The Black Sea intercept near the Neptun Deep site highlights how the Ukraine war's security spillover now reaches a proj...
Windows 11 KB5121003 Update Triggers Game Crashes and System Errors
Microsoft's mandatory August security patch is causing game crashes, login failures and display issues on some PCs, push...
Labor Day Shoppers Plan $341 Average Spend, With Groceries First on the List
A RetailMeNot poll shows 73% plan to shop Labor Day sales but 42% put groceries first; a separate Vevor survey finds str...
India Now Has More Renewable Capacity Than Fossil Fuels, but the Grid Can’t Use It All
Solar drove an 81 GW jump in India's clean power capacity to 331 GW, yet clean sources still supplied only about a fifth...
From Compliance Gatekeeper to C-Suite Strategist: The CSO's Rapid Reinvention
New Accenture and UN Global Compact data show sustainability is becoming a CFO-level priority, pushing CSOs into capital...
Bitcoin Tops $75,000 as Trump's Crypto Push and Treasury Move Fuel Rally
Bitcoin surged past $75,000 while ether climbed more than 25% on the week, driven by Washington's crypto push and a Trea...
Katie Holmes on Directing Happy Hours, Choosing Indie Film and a Second Act Behind the Camera
At Tribeca, Katie Holmes presents the romance she wrote and directed, reuniting with Joshua Jackson and explaining her d...
Tenure-Track Hiring Rose 7% While Campus Staff Jobs Shrank
New CUPA-HR data from 900+ colleges show tenure-track faculty up 7% — the biggest rise since 2016 — while full-time staf...
Refining Crisis from Iran War Keeps Diesel and Gasoline Prices Under Pressure
Crude has retreated from wartime peaks, but fuel cracks, inventories and refining outages point to a prolonged diesel-ga...
USDA Corn Outlook: Heat Cuts Yields, Surprise Acres Cloud Rally
A lower U.S. corn yield and stronger exports point to tighter supplies, but 1.39 million unexplained additional acres le...
Elon Musk Teases a Tesla 'Way Cooler Than a Minivan'—With No Specs, Timeline or Official Design
Elon Musk's reply to a fan's minivan plea has set off fresh speculation about a Tesla people mover, but no details or da...
Ryder CEO Expects Used Truck and Tractor Prices to Jump at Least 10% in 2027
Ryder System's John Diez says recovering spot freight and upcoming EPA emissions rules will push used truck and tractor ...
Brazil Industrial Policy Chief: Subsidized Credit Lifts Investment, Not Inflation
Uallace Moreira says government credit lines target machinery, fleets and innovation to lift potential GDP; he concedes ...
Xi Congratulates Hichilema on Re-election, Vows to Deepen Zambia Ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping has congratulated Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema on his re-election and pledged to implement o...
Instagram Marketing by Hemp Cannabinoid Brands Found Heavy on Youth Appeals, Rutgers Study Shows
A Rutgers review of 837 Instagram posts finds intoxicating hemp brands lean on cartoons, memes and lifestyle content, ev...
TAROM Names Second Boeing 737 MAX After Olympic Champion Ivan Patzaichin
Romanian flag carrier TAROM continues its sports-icons naming programme, following its first new 737 MAX named after foo...
USS George Washington Reaches Middle East to Relieve USS Abraham Lincoln After 270-Day Deployment
The carrier swap comes amid congressional concern over reported crew strain aboard the Lincoln and leaves the Western Pa...
Budapest Waterfront Project Reports 85% Sold, Touts VAT Reclaim
Duna Terasz Vista says technical handovers have started and eligible buyers can reclaim 5% VAT on the Foka Bay apartment...
U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion: The Household Cost in Mortgages and Social Security
A Conference Board model finds federal borrowing could add $53,000 to some homebuyers' mortgage tab and cut Social Secur...
China's 320 Million 'Flexible Workers': A Labour Market Red Flag or New Normal?
A university-linked study projects 320 million Chinese workers—44% of the employed population—will be in flexible employ...
DL Invest Presses abrdn Logistics Over Delayed Final Asset Sale and Exit Costs
DL Invest has asked for a revised timetable and cost evidence, warning of capital erosion as the final sale slips; abrdn...
Diabetes Treatment Is a $966 Billion Global Market Led by Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Sanofi
Nearly 537 million people live with diabetes, and global health spending reached an estimated $966 billion in 2021. Here...
Douro Port Wine and Bull's Heart Tomato Festival Returns to Lamego's Port Knox Cellar
The 11th Festa do Tomate Coração de Boi do Douro pairs regional tomatoes with Douro wines, including rare aged Ports at ...
US Public Debt Tops $40 Trillion as Long-Term Yields Hit 18-Year High
The Treasury is doubling buybacks of long-term bonds after 30-year yields touched 5.34%, the highest since 2007, deepeni...