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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...
China Resources' New Kowloon Launch Prices Flats 27–33% Below 2021 Area Projects
The first 102 flats in the large West Kowloon project start at HK$5.298 million after discount, averaging HK$17,880 per ...
AMD Pullback Makes It a Hold, Not a Buy, Morningstar Says; Sandisk and Western Digital Still Fully Priced
Morningstar’s Dave Sekera explains why AMD’s 7% post-earnings drop leaves the stock fairly valued, while Sandisk and Wes...
Hungary Restarts Paks Nuclear Plant After Danube Water Levels Rise
Hungary has begun restarting a turbine at the Paks nuclear station after Danube levels recovered, easing a supply squeez...
TKMS Lifts Guidance and Shares Jump 15% as Auto Managers Move to Naval Shipbuilding
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems reports a €20bn order book, raises full-year targets, and sees shares top €100 as car-indust...
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...
Pony.ai Aims for 500–1,000 Autonomous Freight Trucks in China Within Three Years
Pony.ai says its Robotruck business is leaving testing behind: 500–1,000 Gen-4 heavy-duty trucks in two to three years, ...
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; ...
Egypt Rail Investment Arm MOT to Offer 6,000 Sqm of Land to Private Developers
MOT, the Egyptian National Railways investment arm, will offer two land plots totalling 6,000 sqm in Qena and Gharbia in...
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...
How Exports Became the Lifeline for China's Carmakers
A brutal domestic price war is squeezing Chinese auto profits, pushing BYD, Chery and Geely toward overseas markets wher...
Egypt's San Misr Wins $18.6m Eni Contract to Supply Electrical Equipment for Iraq's Zubair Field
Egyptian maintenance company San Misr has won a three-year, $18.6 million tender from Italy's Eni to supply electrical e...
Viral NHK Scene Reopens Debate on Year-Round Reserved Seats for Nozomi
A passenger's question about boarding a non-reserved Shinkansen car without a ticket, captured in NHK's 100 Cameras, has...
Mercedes-Benz Loses Software Chief Magnus Östberg
The architect of the carmaker’s MB.OS platform is leaving at the end of August, with no named successor at a pivotal mom...
UK Insurance's 25% Retirement Wave Puts Decades of Broker Knowledge at Risk
The CII says a quarter of the UK insurance workforce will retire within a decade. Broker leaders argue mentoring, flexib...
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...
El Niño's Double Blow to Peru: Southern Drought and Coastal Floods Put 7.8 Million Farm Hectares at Risk
Cenepred sees almost the entire cultivable surface exposed to drought, huaicos or flooding through March 2027, as agro G...
How Colombians Can Claim Natural Disaster Insurance After the August 10 Earthquake
Only about one in ten Colombian homes is insured against disasters. Here is what affected policyholders should do after ...
Rhine Hits Record Low at Kaub, Forcing Europe's Industrial Freight Reroute
Europe's key industrial waterway has effectively stalled at Kaub after hitting a record low, pushing chemicals, steel an...
Community College Issues Layoff Notices to All Counselors, Citing Budget and Outsourcing Plans
The unnamed college's move arrives as students lean on AI for mental health support and campuses face fresh legal and re...
Tencent Says WeChat Will Become AI-First as It Front-Loads AI Capex
Tencent's earnings call positioned WeChat as an AI-first ecosystem, with Work Buddy as a model-agnostic coordinator and ...
LG's Xboom Stage 501 Brings Real-Time AI Karaoke to Portable Speakers
LG Electronics has unveiled the xboom Stage 501, a Bluetooth party speaker that uses AI to remove vocals and change key ...
Spanish Rents Top €1,100 for 80 m² as Regional Gap Widens
Fotocasa's July index shows San Sebastián at €1,610 and Jaén at €600 for an 80 m² flat, with Madrid and the Balearics fa...
Workers' Comp Drug Screening Cuts Pharmacy Spend 18.4%, but Human Review Remains Central
A new Enlyte report puts a number on automated pharmacy screening in workers' comp; industry leaders say the technology ...
Chile's Public-Sector Reform Push Gains Expert Backing, With Focus on Contracts and Merit Pay
Named policy experts are urging a wholesale rewrite of Chile's civil service statute to end the planta-contrata split an...
Chile Asks Constitutional Court to Uphold Tax Stability and RCA Restitution in Reconstruction Law
The executive filed three briefs defending long-term tax invariability and restitution for revoked environmental permits...
Oil Slides as OPEC and IEA Slash Demand Outlook, US Inventories Jump
Brent and WTI futures drop after OPEC cuts 2026 demand growth to 580,000 bpd and the IEA warns of a possible 1.6m bpd co...
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...
Germany Introduces ‘Frühstartrente’ to Give Children a Head Start on Retirement Savings
The German cabinet has approved a plan to invest €10 per month for every child from age six to 18, aiming to build capit...
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...