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Senior Base Metals Traders Jump Ship as Battle for Talent Intensifies
A wave of departures at Bank of America, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley highlights a fierce scramble for base metals exper...
Vedanta Spins Off Real Estate Into Vedanta Property Platforms; 20:1 Share Ratio, ₹30,000 Crore Opportunity
Vedanta will demerge its surplus land and property assets into a new pure-play real estate company. Shareholders receive...
Air France-KLM Absorbs Fuel Shock, Submits Bid for TAP Portugal as Lufthansa Joins Race
Air France-KLM's Q2 earnings beat expectations despite an €804 million fuel hit, as the airline bids for TAP Portugal al...
Inside the Warrior-Scholar Project: Caltech Boot Camp Tests Veterans' Academic Mettle
A free, intensive STEM boot camp at Caltech and other elite universities helps veterans transition to college, with 80% ...
US Bans Future Consumer Routers Produced Abroad. Here’s What Changes.
The FCC has barred new foreign-made home routers from entering the US, citing national security—yet leaves existing devi...
Hefei’s Economic Boom Rests on a Three-Tier Innovation Chain, Not Just a Top University
The city's rise reveals that turning research into industrial might requires patient capital, innovation-friendly market...
Side Opens Its Core Operating System to Large Real Estate Brokerages
Real estate tech firm Side is offering SideOS, its proprietary back-office platform, to independent and franchise broker...
Aldous Bio Targets €100M Revenue by 2030 After Nazca Takes Control
Spanish supplement maker Aldous Bio has brought in private equity firm Nazca as majority shareholder, with a plan to qui...
Spain's Wildfire Crisis: Decades of Neglect Outweigh Firefighting Spend
As another fire season sparks calls for more aircraft, experts point to a prevention deficit: rural abandonment, fragmen...
India's First Dengue Strain Map Shows All Four Serotypes Circulating in 8 States, Critical for Vaccine Rollout
A pan-India molecular surveillance study by ICMR-NIV found all four dengue serotypes cocirculating in eight states, with...
Hong Kong Luxury Home Supply Crunch Deepens as Completions Hit 7-Year Low
Private residential completions tumbled 41% in the first five months of 2026, while ultra-large flats saw 'over-absorpti...
Dollar Falls Against Real as Fed Hold and US-Iran Tensions Steer Markets
The US dollar dipped versus the Brazilian real on Thursday as investors digested in-line Fed policy and Trump’s threat t...
Xbox Revenue Falls 7% Despite 200 Million New Users; CEO Sharma Pushes Price Hikes and Deep Cuts
Microsoft’s Xbox division added over 200 million new gamers in fiscal 2026 but saw revenue slide 7% as console hardware ...
Bank of England holds rate at 3.75% as inflation surprise is overshadowed by Iran-driven oil spike
The Bank of England kept interest rates at 3.75% for the fifth meeting in a row, but a 6-3 split vote revealed deepening...
Rolls-Royce Lifts Profit Outlook on Defence and AI Data Centre Boom
The British engineering group raised full-year profit guidance after first-half earnings jumped 46%, driven by surging d...
French Savers Flood Life Insurance with Record €36.5bn Amid Livret A Rate Decline
Net inflows into assurance-vie hit a two-decade high in H1 2026 as falling regulated savings rates push households towar...
Plant-Based Diet Linked to 28% Lower Heart Risk in Postmenopausal Women
New research presented at the American Society of Nutrition suggests that postmenopausal women who follow the Planetary ...
Hong Kong Luxury Home Market Sees 'Over-Absorption' as Completions Plunge to 7-Year Low
Hong Kong private housing completions fell 41% in early 2026, the lowest since 2019, while luxury unit sales exceeded an...
Moonshot AI Valued at $35 Billion After Kimi K3 Sparks Silicon Valley Interest
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI raised over $3.5 billion and is already targeting a $50 billion pre-money round, propelle...
Onyx Security’s $113M Series B Puts Human Control at the Center of Enterprise AI Agents
The Israeli startup, now valued at $640M, offers a real-time control plane to inspect and block agent actions before the...
Mapfre Takes 38.9% Stake in Insurtech Tuio to Expand AI-Driven Distribution
Spanish insurance giant Mapfre acquires a significant minority stake in Tuio, betting on the startup's AI agents to mode...
Grifols Appoints Former GSK Vaccines Executive to Board, Replacing Portobello Founder
Joanna Le Couilliard, a pharmaceutical veteran with deep vaccine and Asia-Pacific experience, joins Grifols as independe...
9 Equity SIPs Turned ₹10,000 Monthly Into Over ₹10 Lakh in 5 Years. Here Are the Funds.
In the last five years, nine small-cap and mid-cap mutual funds multiplied a monthly SIP of ₹10,000 by over 1.6 times, w...
Munich Re: Global Natural Disaster Losses Hit $112bn in First Half of 2026
Insured losses plunged to $44bn as the costliest event—a Venezuelan earthquake—was overwhelmingly uninsured. The industr...
LSE Raises 2026 Outlook But Investors Dismiss Targets as Conservative
London Stock Exchange raised its margin and revenue guidance after strong first-half results, yet shares slid 4% as the ...
Softline Integrates Legacy Systems for a Top Russian Energy Sales Company
Bell Integrator, part of Softline, has built a unified data hub for a leading Russian energy retailer, replacing error-p...
Egypt Unveils Greco-Roman Stelae, Sarcophagi and Amulets at Tell el-Deir in Damietta
A Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered around 20 limestone gravestones, terracotta coffins and funerary amulet...
TC Energy Posts $987M Q2 Profit, Bets $400M on Data Center Gas Demand
Pipeline giant TC Energy reported a 18.5% jump in second-quarter net income to $987 million and approved two new expansi...
Global rating firms buy African local insight just as continent readies its own credit agency
S&P Global and Moody's are snapping up domestic rating agencies across Africa, betting that on-the-ground expertise beat...
Cabo Verde and Huawei Reinforce Digital Transformation Cooperation with New Country Representative
The Cabo Verde government and Huawei have deepened their strategic partnership on ICT, digital infrastructure and public...