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The threat to ships carrying oil in the Middle East is at its worst since the Iran war started, experts have said, after a spate of attacks on another key route in the region.
European equity markets opened Wednesday’s session with modest gains, extending the recent improvement in sentiment following the easing of geopolitical tensions surrounding Iran. However, the advance…
Microsoft has increased the price of Xbox consoles worldwide, citing rising memory and storage chip costs.
The July flash PMI came in at 53.6, beating the 52.2 estimate, marking the composite index's strongest reading in eight months, and pointing to annualized GDP growth of roughly 2%. But the number that…
The metal opened the year at $28.92 and ended just below $72 per ounce, marking an annual gain of approximately 144% — silver’s sharpest calendar-year advance since 1979. That move shattered a decade-…
Oil prices turn lower as Bessent says U.S. may have Iran deal "today or tomorrow"
Japan and the US have confirmed that they jointly intervened last week to halt a slide in the yen to a fresh 40-year low.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day brought in $927m (£687m) of global ticket sales to make it the second-biggest opening weekend ever as it shot past its estimated $225m production budget.
Oil prices turn lower as Bessent says U.S. may have Iran deal "today or tomorrow"
UK drivers have stolen almost £200,000 of fuel from petrol stations on average every day since the Iran war broke out and sent prices soaring, according to industry analysis.
Documents that set out Fifa's plan to part-privatise the World Cup and seen by the BBC show why the deal may have fallen apart.
Chancellor John Healey and Prime Minister Andy Burnham have written a joint letter to cabinet ministers telling them that they must stick within their existing spending limits while funding new pledge…
The boss of one of the companies recently hacked by out-of-control artificial intelligence (AI) says bot makers must be accountable for cyber attacks carried out by their creations.
Snapchat has joined the likes of YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack in a growing effort to combat fake writing, images and videos that are entirely created by artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
The boss of one of the companies recently hacked by out-of-control artificial intelligence (AI) says bot makers must be accountable for cyber attacks carried out by their creations.
BP has said it is putting its North Sea business up for sale in a move that would end 60 years of production in the region by the oil giant.
A passenger on a British Airways flight that issued a distress call on approach to Heathrow Airport earlier this month has described the rising fear in the cabin and a lack of information from the cre…
Chancellor John Healey has announced the date of his first Budget will be Wednesday, 28 October.
Sainsbury's has agreed to sell Argos for £120m as the supermarket chain aims to focus on its core food business.
Oil prices turn lower as Bessent says U.S. may have Iran deal "today or tomorrow"
BP has said it is putting its North Sea business up for sale in a move that would end 60 years of production in the region by the oil giant.
A passenger on a British Airways flight that issued a distress call on approach to Heathrow Airport earlier this month has described the rising fear in the cabin and a lack of information from the cre…
US technology firm Anthropic says its AI models hacked into the systems of three organisations on their own, during a private security experiment.
Share prices jumped in South Korea on Friday, partly reversing a three-day rout that wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off the value of the country's stock market.