SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has promised a ¥1tn ($8.8bn) share buyback programme over the next 12 months, yielding to investor...
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Investors propelled US stocks to a record high last week, buoyed by declining unemployment and advancements in the treatment of...
Nancy Pelosi stared down progressives in her own party on Friday, vowing to press ahead with a vote on a...
Opec and its allies declined to accelerate plans to increase oil production, rejecting calls from President Joe Biden to help...
The Federal Reserve said it would begin scaling back its massive $120bn monthly bond-buying programme this month, a critical milestone...
US regulators have sued to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, which would have created...
Joe Biden’s hopes of gaining congressional approval for his sweeping domestic agenda, including climate proposals he is touting in Glasgow,...
G20 leaders have sealed a deal to end international financing of coal power in a boost ahead of the opening...
Mario Draghi has warned the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies that “going it alone is simply not an...
Apple revenues were slightly below forecasts but the technology giant achieved higher net profits than anticipated despite a components shortage...
Royal Dutch Shell is under pressure to break itself up after the activist hedge fund Third Point built a large...
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and Microsoft both posted strong revenue growth in the third quarter, while Twitter swung to a...
Tesla has become the first carmaker to be valued at $1tn after rental group Hertz said it had ordered 100,000...
Poland’s prime minister has accused the EU of making demands of Warsaw with a “gun to our head”, urging Brussels...
Saudi Arabia has pledged to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2060, while also maintaining its role as a...
US intelligence officials have launched a campaign to warn American companies about the risks of interacting with China in critical...
The European Central Bank is pushing banks to add hundreds of extra staff and billions of extra capital to their...
Jens Weidmann has decided to step down after a decade as head of Germany’s central bank in a move that...
The European Commission will take steps to punish Poland for challenging the supremacy of EU law, its head has vowed...
Countering the security threat from the rise of China will be an important part of Nato’s future rationale, the alliance’s...
