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Accenture’s $4.18 billion push into industrial cybersecurity is a reminder that the artificial-intelligence boom is not lifting every technology services business in the same way. The consulting giant is buying growth in one of the more urgent corners of enterprise security at the same time investors are
CarMax’s latest quarter offered investors something they have been waiting to see from the used-car retailer: higher revenue, more total vehicle sales and a new chief executive willing to spell out a turnaround plan. The stock’s post-earnings slide showed why that was not enough. In a
GO Inc.’s strong Tokyo debut is a useful reminder that the IPO market does not reopen only through mega-cap technology names or U.S. listings. Sometimes it reopens through a company that looks almost old-fashioned: a taxi platform built around licensed operators, local regulation and a familiar
The UK government’s resistance to a proposed rescue of Thames Water has turned a long-running corporate crisis into a sharper test of how much risk private creditors can shift onto customers when essential infrastructure begins to fail. Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds has raised concerns with Ofwat over a
The Trump administration’s effort to build a Western critical-minerals trading bloc is running into the hard part of industrial policy: agreeing who pays when security goals collide with market prices. Reuters reported Monday that U.S. proposals to support prices for critical minerals are facing skepticism from G7
Kevin Warsh’s first Federal Reserve policy meeting as chair is likely to be remembered less for the rate decision than for what he says about saying less. The Federal Open Market Committee meets June 16-17, its first scheduled meeting since Warsh took the oath of office as chair
Whirlpool’s latest debt maneuver is not the kind of transaction that usually grabs broad market attention. It should. The appliance maker’s early tender results, released Friday, show a company moving quickly to refinance low-coupon euro debt with a larger package of secured U.S. dollar borrowings. That
The European Central Bank’s first rate increase since 2023 is a reminder that the energy shock has moved back from market screens into monetary policy. By raising all three key rates by 25 basis points on June 11, the ECB turned a geopolitical disruption into a policy signal: it
Prediction markets are moving from a legal novelty to a regulatory test for U.S. finance. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s June 10 proposal for event contracts does not settle the fight over whether platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket are exchanges, betting shops or something in between. It
BP’s latest restructuring is more than a tidying-up exercise. It is a statement about what public markets now want from major oil companies: fewer competing narratives, clearer accountability and a business model that can be judged on cash generation rather than strategic breadth. The company said on June
GSK’s $10.6 billion agreement to buy Nuvalent is a reminder that the pharmaceutical industry’s deal market is being driven less by cheap targets than by scarce assets that can plausibly change a company’s growth profile before the end of the decade. The British drugmaker said Tuesday
Intesa Sanpaolo has turned Italy’s banking consolidation race from a gradual reshuffling into a direct contest for control of one of the country’s most strategically connected financial institutions. On Monday, Italy’s largest banking group launched an unsolicited cash-and-share offer worth 30.6 billion euros, or
