Donald Trump is trying to fire central bank governor Lisa Cook. Investors might take comfort that chairman Jerome Powell and the broad institution remain defiant, but courts will have the final say.

After over a decade of regulator-blessed hoarding, Charlie Ergen’s debt-laden telecom firm is selling rights to transmit mobile signals to AT&T for $23 bln. As the White House meddles with steel and ...

Shares in $12 bln Orsted tumbled by almost a fifth after a Washington agency halted a near-complete project. It clouds a different development near New York, tied to a $9 bln rights issue. Pulling out ...

French bank stocks fell up to 7% after PM François Bayrou called a confidence vote. It leads to only two dire scenarios: he can survive by watering down his austerity budget or resign. That would ...

Vedanta's oil business may have landed it in a sticky situation. The Indian government is accusing the division of accounting lapses and citing that as its reason for opposing the Mumbai-listed $20 ...

Keurig Dr Pepper’s $18 bln buyout of JDE Peet’s cashes out backer JAB after years of stale performance. A planned split from ...

US firms repurchased about $1 trln of their own equity in 2024, counter to a global norm of rising share counts. Combined with faster profit growth, it has powered the S&P 500’s standout performance.

Dongfeng’s state-backed majority owner is taking the unprofitable manufacturer private at a $7 bln valuation and spinning off an EV unit. It’s a good deal for long-suffering minority investors. But ...

A small paradox is gripping India's capital markets. The rise of institutional investors is pushing down overall shareholding levels of powerful private backers of companies, including tycoons. But ...

US worker output since the pandemic has grown more quickly than in dud decades like the 1980s and 2010s. Problem is, the ...

The central banker, besieged by Donald Trump, used his last Jackson Hole speech to signal a rate cut. Yet the case for easing ...

Rachel Reeves may look again at stamp duty. Swapping the levy for a permanent tax could initially cost 10 bln pounds, making ...