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Jeanine Pirro, Trump’s legal crusader goes off script
The US attorney’s relationship with the president is on thin ice after her office rejected claims of vandalism at the Reflecting Pool...
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Iran’s oil exports stall and Kharg Island idles under US blockade
US naval blockade appears to be halting tankers from carrying Tehran’s crude...
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US euro sale to prop up yen blindsided ECB
Christine Lagarde and Scott Bessent spoke only after Washington’s historic intervention...
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The curious case of the Japanese government bond yields
Maybe not as high as you think...
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Parents haggle with private schools over fees as VAT pushes up costs
Financial advisers say families now band together to negotiate a group discount for their children as 20% tax rate bites...
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Court tells Meta to pay extra $567mn penalty to tackle social media harm to children
Tech group to appeal after New Mexico judge finds company to be a ‘public nuisance’...
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Jane Street in talks to shift its $11bn in debt to investors including Pimco
Private credit deal would allow the secretive trading firm to make further investments in AI...
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Uefa doubles down on World Cup boycott in effort to oust Infantino
Europe’s football governing body reiterates threat despite Fifa ditching plan to sell stake to external investors...
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AI creates first synthetic viruses
Genomic language model has huge potential to redesign organisms such as bacteria...
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Trump allowed to delay release of financial details in $10bn BBC defamation case
US court agrees with emergency stay requested by lawyers acting for president’s investment trust...
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Russia targets Maga influencers ahead of German state vote
The ‘Matryoshka’ campaign is seeking to amplify inflammatory English-language posts, officials say...
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Kevin Warsh to stick with lean Fed messaging despite market backlash
US central bank chair remains confident that sweeping reforms will win over key investors...
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Ares scales back blockbuster private credit vehicle after valuation pushback
Wall Street firm sought to complete €1bn continuation fund but failed to get buy-in for pricing from investors...
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Gianni Infantino admits ‘mistakes’ over failed $20bn Fifa investment plan
President seeks to move on from saga that undermined world football’s governing body...
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Big US hedge funds hit by wave of cyber attacks
Point72 and Citadel among firms targeted by audio phishing schemes...
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JPMorgan poaches M&A banker Amy Lissauer from Bank of America
Executive will lead activism defence practice at biggest US lender...
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Iran says it has reached agreement with Oman on Hormuz shipping route
Islamic republic is determined to retain a degree of control over the chokepoint...
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Israel launches strikes on Lebanon in new flare-up
Israeli military issues first evacuation order in over a month amid renewed efforts to de-escalate tensions in the region...
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High-stakes Michigan Democratic Senate primary too close to call
Fewer than 20,000 votes separate centrist congresswoman Haley Stevens and progressive challenger Abdul El-Sayed...
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China launches global tax hunt going back decades
Fiscal pressure sparks retroactive campaign and tougher controls on future offshore capital flows...
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Citadel surges 6% after swoop on Situational Awareness
Ken Griffin’s flagship fund bought billions of dollars of AI stocks from Leopold Aschenbrenner’s firm...
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Russian bombardment kills 17 in Kyiv
Ukraine warns Patriot interceptor stocks are running low as retaliatory 40-day air campaign expires...
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Banks to offload $15bn of debt for Anthropic data centre backed by Google
Bond sale could free up lending capacity as mega AI deals stretch Wall Street financing limits...
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Musk’s SpaceX unnerves investors with lavish spending plans
Shares in AI to rockets group slide even as it says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled...
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Trump administration refunds $100bn in ‘liberation day’ tariffs
US customs officials repay about 60% of the levies that were struck down by the Supreme Court...
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US cannot ‘stay isolated’ from Chinese EV competition, warns Lucid CEO
Carmaker’s new boss predicts industry ‘shakeout’ and announces $1.4bn cost-cutting programme...
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US diesel prices overtake Biden-era average in blow to Trump
Cost for fuel that powers industrial America set to remain elevated even as crude falls...
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Trump’s pick for US attorney-general clears key Senate hurdle
Todd Blanche’s nomination narrowly passed by committee after he agreed to scrap the president’s $1.8bn ‘slush fund’...
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Oil falls after Bessent says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz is imminent
Brent drops 4% and US stocks hit record high as Iranian and Omani negotiators agree on temporary shipping arrangement...
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Fifa executive criticises Infantino’s ‘reproachable’ stake sale plan
Comments from secretary-general Mattias Grafström add to pressure on Fifa president...
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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...
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OpenAI hits back at Apple over ‘oddly personal’ trade secrets fight
Legal clash deepens after an AI partnership over devices gives way to acrimony...
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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...
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HSBC resumes share buybacks as quarterly profits soar to $10.1bn
Wealth management and insurance business in Hong Kong boosts Europe’s biggest lender...
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US states accuse Trump administration of ‘sham’ tariff probe
More than 20 attorneys-general launch legal challenge to duties for alleged forced labour violations...
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Palantir forecasts greater demand from US groups for its AI software
Tech company posts second-quarter results with US sales climbing 23%...
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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...
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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...
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UBS fined $125mn over lax money laundering controls
Swiss bank failed to implement adequate curbs despite previous sanction by US regulators...
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Japan vows further yen intervention with US if needed
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama confirms joint action with Washington to counter ‘disorderly movements’...
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Struggling to make sense of AstraZeneca-BMS
All about oncology? A cardio workout? Patent-cliff avoidance? American dreaming?...
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Football has given Europe a rare geopolitical victory
Players like Lamine Yamal and Jude Bellingham are Europe’s rare earths...
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AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb over $400bn tie-up
Deal would create world’s fourth-largest drugmaker by market value...
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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...
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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’...
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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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 mounting...
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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...
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