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Bessent’s yen intervention signals new era of US ‘currency activism’
Bid to support Japan’s currency shows US is ready to scupper trades that push against its interests...
OpenAI hits back at Apple over ‘oddly personal’ trade secrets fight
Legal clash deepens after an AI partnership over devices gives way to acrimony...
BP to sell $4bn US biogas business as profits more than double
UK oil major has had several approaches for its North Sea assets, says chief...
HSBC resumes share buybacks as quarterly profits soar to $10.1bn
Wealth management and insurance business in Hong Kong boosts Europe’s biggest lender...
US states accuse Trump administration of ‘sham’ tariff probe
More than 20 attorneys-general launch legal challenge to duties for alleged forced labour violations...
Palantir forecasts greater demand from US groups for its AI software
Tech company posts second-quarter results with US sales climbing 23%...
AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers: when Big Pharma isn’t big enough
Sheer mass helps when enlarged balance sheets allow for bigger bets on potential blockbuster drugs...
AstraZeneca investors raise concerns over mega-merger talks
Shareholders question looming patent cliff and antitrust risks in potential $400bn tie-up with Bristol Myers Squibb...
UBS fined $125mn over lax money laundering controls
Swiss bank failed to implement adequate curbs despite previous sanction by US regulators...
Japan vows further yen intervention with US if needed
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama confirms joint action with Washington to counter ‘disorderly movements’...
Struggling to make sense of AstraZeneca-BMS
All about oncology? A cardio workout? Patent-cliff avoidance? American dreaming?...
Football has given Europe a rare geopolitical victory
Players like Lamine Yamal and Jude Bellingham are Europe’s rare earths...
AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb over $400bn tie-up
Deal would create world’s fourth-largest drugmaker by market value...
Todd Blanche confirms scrapping of $1.8bn ‘slush fund’ ahead of confirmation vote
Acting US attorney-general U-turns on ‘anti-weaponisation fund’ after two Republicans threaten to torpedo nomination...
Iran says deal with Oman to manage shipping through Hormuz is close
Negotiations on agreement seen as critical to preventing the US-Iran war from escalating said to be in ‘final stages’...
America’s biggest companies report ‘rock solid’ profits as consumers face higher costs
S&P 500 groups on track for strongest earnings in five years...
‘Crush this lady’: how eBay harassment campaign led to $56mn payout
Employees’ cyberstalking of Boston couple involving macabre deliveries ended in jail time and financial settlement...
Iran sets the pace in war with Trump
Tehran’s military raised the stakes with Washington by further expanding the battle across the Middle East...
Infantino’s U-turn fuels doubts about his future at Fifa
The president of football’s governing body was expected to stand for re-election unopposed, but now criticism is mountin...
Sánchez hits out at EU leaders over criticism of Spain’s migrant crisis
Prime minister calls for meeting of bloc’s home affairs ministers as tensions over immigration policy mount...
Fifa abandons $20bn investment plan after global backlash
Uefa says it has lost confidence in Infantino’s leadership after climbdown...
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