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In the span of three weeks, Brazilian hedge-fund managers went from celebrating some of their biggest gains in years to nursing steep losses and issuing mea culpas to their clients.
Dockworkers across Europe and beyond are staging strikes as part of an international campaign against arms shipments and to demand better working conditions
The British high-street bank’s shares dropped after it forecast weaker-than-expected interest income next year.
Candy prices are up 44% since 2021, but two groups of innovators are striving to solve the growing cocoa-bean shortage.
Amazon became the latest tech company to announce swelling investments in A.I. amid stumbling share prices.
Fund 1 Investments LLC, the third-largest shareholder in Xponential Fitness Inc., the owner of Club Pilates and Pure Barre brands, said it’s pushing for a take-private and is looking to buy the company itself.
Starbucks' U.S. stores topped Wall Street's comparable sales expectations but its international business fell short of estimates.
Plus, an Italian insurer’s 20-year pact looks like one of the most lucrative naming-rights agreements in sports history.
Investigators believed the woman, Alice Huang, was recruited based on her relationship with Jensen Huang.
Canadian National Railway reported higher third-quarter profit after a surge in revenue, driven by strong pricing gains across freight segments.
The Mortgage Bankers Association forecasts 30-year fixed mortgage rates staying above 7% through 2027, creating major hurdles for first-time home buyers.
ExxonMobil and Chevron both reported better than expected quarterly results Friday as the oil majors benefited from higher prices and record production
Equity investors are meting out some of the harshest punishments ever for companies that miss expectations, just as strategists sound the alarm that earnings growth has likely peaked.
The news is a blow to the German chemical company’s attempts to challenge rivals from Asia and the Middle East.
The pharmaceutical company boosted its profit outlook for the year, and raised its quarterly dividend as both third-quarter results and full-year guidance came in above expectations.
Europe’s economy persevered with moderate growth in the third quarter despite higher oil prices from the US-Iran war, as gross domestic product increased by 0.4% over the quarter before







