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Warren Buffett's One Rule: How 6,099,294% Was Built, and What Greg Abel's Cash Moves Now Test
Berkshire Hathaway's 1965–2025 gain of 6,099,294% rests on buying understandable compounder businesses, not hot stocks. ...
EY Creates AI Value Realization Office to Make Its $1.4bn AI Investment Pay
The Big Four firm is centralizing AI spending, usage and return measurement as token costs climb and clients ask for a b...
Austria's 2024 Christmas Sales Cross €2 Billion, Led by Physical Stores
Estimated holiday spending reached €2.05 billion in Austria, up 2.5% from 2023, with nearly half still going to brick-an...
Former NASA Science Chief Thomas Zurbuchen Returns to Zurich to Boost Europe’s Space Ambitions
Thomas Zurbuchen, the Swiss physicist behind NASA’s James Webb telescope and some 130 missions, is back at ETH Zurich ar...
Trump Says U.S. Will Claim Strait of Hormuz, Deepening Iran Standoff and Oil Supply Risk
Trump's pledge to declare the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory has escalated an unresolved Iran conflict and put the key ...
Klingbeil Proposes Scrapping €1,080 Tax-Free Staff Discounts, Angering Coalition
A draft tax-reform bill would end the annual tax-free allowance for employee discounts, saving Germany €240 million a ye...
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Medien to Cut 57 Jobs in AI-Driven Regional Shift
The German regional publisher is dissolving its Rheinische Redaktionsgemeinschaft on 30 September, moving regional produ...
Climate Damage Costs Germany €500m a Day, and Households Have Levers
Record heat, a 12-centimetre Rhine and 10,000 heat-related deaths have pushed climate costs into household budgets; sola...
Deutsche Bahn Sues to Block Rail Capacity Order as Italo Prepares €3.6bn German Entry
Germany's rail operator is challenging a regulator ruling that would reserve at least a quarter of congested long-distan...
Deutsche Bahn Challenges Rail Regulator's Capacity Order as Italo Prepares German Entry
DB InfraGo is seeking an injunction against a Bundesnetzagentur ruling that reserves 25% of capacity on busy long-distan...
Birkenstock Investor L Catterton Sells $1 Billion Stake After 12% Stock Surge
L Catterton placed 25.52 million Birkenstock shares at $39.35, a 4% discount to Thursday's close. Birkenstock itself bou...
US 30-Year Treasury Yield Hits 25-Year High as Deficit Financing Costs Mount
A 30-year auction priced at 5.216% and a 10-year sale at 4.683% show investors demanding more for US debt as July's defi...
Berkshire Hathaway Lifts Alphabet Stake 83%, Halting 14-Quarter Stock Sell-Off
The disclosure makes Alphabet Berkshire's third-largest stock at $37.8 billion, as Greg Abel begins deploying the cash p...
Spain-Morocco Security Crackdown Keeps Ceuta Calm After Online Migration Calls
Heavy policing, razor wire and naval patrols kept the Spanish enclave quiet on Saturday after online calls for a repeat ...
Russia's Refineries Are Becoming the Economic Fault Line of the War
Ukrainian long-range drone strikes have knocked a large share of Russian refining capacity offline, forcing fuel rationi...
Liechtenstein’s Transparency Register Breach Exposes Owners Behind 31,000 Entities
A cyberattack on Liechtenstein’s transparency register has exposed the beneficial owners behind 31,000 foundations and c...
DB Cargo Plans to Reactivate Retired Freight Wagons as Rhine Low Water Cuts Shipping
Germany's rail freight operator says up to 900 parked wagons could be brought back — 300 immediately — to help replace R...
Handelsblatt's Weekend Edition: Walking Holidays, AI Tests and a Vegan Ice Cream Challenger
The German business daily's weekend newsletter pairs a local walking holiday in North Rhine-Westphalia with reads on AI ...
US Inflation Stays at 3.4% as 25-Year-High Bond Yields and Soft Jobs Data Test the Fed
US inflation is stuck at 3.4%, long-term Treasury yields have hit 25-year highs above 5%, and weak job creation is compl...
Germany’s Frühstartrente: €10 a Month to Give Every Child a Pension Start
Germany’s cabinet has approved a state-funded child retirement account: €10 per month from age 6 to 18, with no separate...
Norway's Builders Lose Polish Workers as Germany Faces 400,000 Construction Job Gaps
A NAV-backed survey puts Norway's skilled construction shortfall at 4,750 workers, while Germany reports up to 400,000 m...
The Real MSCI World Return After Tax and Inflation Is 3.1%, Not 8.41%
A 30-year, €100-a-month MSCI World plan shows why German savers should plan with a 3.1% real return once tax and inflati...
Rolex Still Leads Luxury Watch Resales, but Its Grip Is Loosening: Chrono24 Data
New Chrono24 transaction data shows Rolex remains the top traded luxury watch brand in 2026, though its share has fallen...
Bruegel Chief Warns EU Must Speak With One Voice as US-China Trade Tensions Rise
Guntram Wolff says the tariff truce with Washington may be temporary and outlines why the EU needs a coordinated digital...
SanDisk Technical Note Says Correction May Be Over After Slump Below $1,000
A promotional HSBC technical analysis argues SanDisk's correction from $2,350 below $1,000 may be exhausted, citing Fibo...
Rheinmetall Stock Climbs Back to €1,175 as Technical Recovery Builds
BNP Paribas’ daily note says Rheinmetall has recovered about 31% from its June low and is testing a former gap level, wi...
US Futures Steady as Cooling Producer Prices Bolster Fed-Hold Bets
Cooling producer prices and a modest rise in jobless claims leave US futures sideways, while Applied Materials slips aft...
Drone Alert Turns European Defence Into an Investor Theme
After a drone scare at Leipzig Airport, investors are re-examining Europe's defence sector, with TKMS reporting a record...
What the iShares EURO STOXX 50 ETF Really Offers — and Where It Falls Short
A data-driven look at the fund's country, sector and stock concentration shows when a pure eurozone blue-chip ETF fits a...
Greens Push Windfall Tax on Oil Companies as German Fuel Prices Bite
Green parliamentary leader Katharina Dröge wants excess oil profits taxed and refunded through lower electricity costs, ...
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