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SAIB Bank Posts EGP 12.4bn Revenue and EGP 458.8m Net Profit for June 2026 Period
Egypt's SAIB reported EGP 12.4bn in revenue and EGP 458.8m net profit, with loans at EGP 87.2bn and deposits at EGP 146....
Refined Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Never Fully Dressed
Private equity investor Refined Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in inclusive UK fashion label Never Fully...
Why Terry Blackburn Says a Marketing Plan Must Come Before Scaling an Advice Business
The Wealthy Advisers Club founder argues advice firms need a clear client-acquisition plan and repeatable systems before...
Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner to Buy Los Angeles Lakers for Record $12 Billion
Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner have agreed to buy the Los Angeles Lakers from Mark Walter for a record $12 billion, just 14...
Metaplanet’s Siiibo Securities Buy Paves Way for Bitcoin-Backed Financial Products
The Japanese bitcoin treasury is betting a newly acquired securities firm can turn its crypto holdings into a regulatory...
BelAZ Delivers 130–240-Tonne Mining Trucks to Kuzbass and Ural Mines
The Belarusian heavy-truck maker announced shipments of ultra-class haulers to mining companies in Kemerovo and Sverdlov...
ECB Signals No Grounds to Block UniCredit's Commerzbank Move Despite BaFin Concerns
A confidential ECB document reportedly concludes there is no reason to reject UniCredit's acquisition of control over Co...
Tencent Q2 Revenue Tops Forecast; Adjusted Profit Rises 9% as AI Capex Sends Free Cash Flow Negative
Revenue hit RMB 204.8 billion, up 11%, and adjusted profit reached RMB 68.4 billion, but heavy AI infrastructure spendin...
Kushner and Iger Agree to Reported $12 Billion Los Angeles Lakers Purchase
The reported $12 billion-plus acquisition from Mark Walter would surpass the Seattle Seahawks sale, making the Lakers th...
IRCTC Q1 Profit Stays Flat at ₹330 Crore as Revenue Climbs 18%
Catering revenue jumped 33.9% and internet ticketing stayed subdued, while tourism fell sharply from the March quarter; ...
Qara Energy Wins Contract to Build Yazaki's First Egypt Wiring-Harness Plant
Qara Energy will build a turnkey automotive wiring-harness complex in Fayoum for Yazaki Egypt, alongside an EGP405m righ...
18 Months in Judicial Restructuring: How a Loire Restaurant Group Survived €1.8m in Debt
Imalyne exited court-supervised restructuring in February 2026, cutting two loss-making units while safeguarding 40 jobs...
DOJ Seeks to Halt Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Over Years of Pathogen Contamination
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint to stop Arrow Reliance Inc. (Darwin’s Natural Pet Products) from making a...
Fortuna Mining Doubles Down on Senegal Gold with $200M Bambadji Acquisition
The Canadian miner buys the Bambadji property adjacent to its Diamba Sud project, aiming to create a district-scale oper...
Schneider Electric Acquires AiDASH for $350M to Boost Grid Climate Resilience with Satellite AI
France’s Schneider Electric has agreed to buy a 90% stake in US startup AiDASH, which uses satellite imagery and AI to h...
Big Tech has a herding problem
Meta, Tesla and SpaceX are pouring billions into AI data centres with little clarity on returns, following the herd rath...
System1’s Behavioral Psychology Edge Faces Test as Brave Bison Circles
Once a market darling for its Kahneman-inspired ad testing, System1 has plunged to microcap status. Now a takeover bid f...
Tencent Q2 Revenue Beats, Adjusted Profit Up 9%, Free Cash Flow Turns Negative on AI Capex
Tencent's Q2 revenue rose 11% to 204.8 billion yuan, beating estimates, while adjusted net profit gained 9% to 68.4 bill...
Swiss Re AG: A 4.57% Yield and Stout Return on Equity in a Tight Trading Range
Swiss Re stock in Zurich shows a forward dividend yield of 4.57% with an ROE above 20%, trading in a narrow band amid ca...
Target Corporation (TGT) Stock Snapshot: Operations, Valuation and Yield
Target’s shares traded between $150.46 and $154.87, with a market cap near $69 billion and a forward dividend yield of 3...
What Is Hewlett Packard Enterprise? A Look at Its Business and August 2026 Stock Snapshot
HPE operates across servers, hybrid cloud, networking and financial services. Its stock was trading between $52.61 and $...
Australia Sets A$31.30 Minimum Hourly Pay, Injury Insurance for Gig Delivery Workers
Landmark Fair Work Commission order gives about 250,000 delivery riders minimum pay above the national wage and injury c...
Chandrasekaran's Tata Sons exit jolts group stocks; TCS slides over 4%
Tata group stocks fell sharply after Chairman N Chandrasekaran resigned ahead of the August 18 AGM, with TCS losing 4.12...
Karnataka Food Safety Department Seals Zepto Warehouse Over Unhygienic Storage Conditions
Zepto's Hoskote warehouse sealed after inspection finds misbranding, unhygienic storage; wider food safety drive in Beng...
Chandrasekaran Steps Down as Tata Sons Chairman, Won’t Seek Reappointment
N Chandrasekaran has told the Tata Sons board he will not seek another term beyond February 2027, after a director block...
How Yuntian Changxiang Is Building a National GPU Network for 600 Million Devices
CEO Mao Xiaodong explains how the startup pools idle GPUs across China, delivers real-time rendering to phones, cars and...
Behind Aili Home's 10-Day Limit-Up Frenzy: A Pricey Memory-Testing Bet That Carries Big Risks
Aili Home's stock surged 159% in ten sessions after announcing a cross-industry acquisition of storage-testing firm Okan...
BASF Prepares Agri Unit for IPO, Sparking Hopes of a €30 Billion Valuation and a Stock Revaluation
BASF is moving toward an IPO of its agricultural division, a move that could unlock up to €30 billion in value and force...
Opella's Simona Mănăloiu: Consumers Will Increasingly Demand Real Help from Brands, Not Just Messaging
In an interview with Forbes Romania, Opella's Brand Lead for Central & Eastern Europe, Simona Mănăloiu, argues that AI a...
What the 2026 World Cup Taught Advertisers About Politics, Language, and Ad Fatigue
The tournament's record U.S. viewership and unexpected audience shifts provided clear takeaways: contextual targeting wo...