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Cyprus is preparing to become a natural gas producer on a timetable that puts its first exports just after Europe’s planned break with Russian supply. Energy Minister Michael Damianos said gas from the offshore Cronos field could reach European consumers as early as March 2028, sharpening the financial significance
China’s latest inflation data show two very different price environments operating inside the world’s second-largest economy. Consumer prices rose only 0.5% in July from a year earlier, while factory-gate prices increased 3.5%. That gap matters because it suggests many companies are paying substantially more
Paramount Skydance has removed another regulatory obstacle from its planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, but the approval does less to settle the deal than the headline might suggest. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority cleared the transaction on Thursday after a Phase 1 review, finding no basis for a
Uber’s second-quarter results showed a business with more financial strength than its share-price reaction suggested. Gross bookings reached $58.0 billion, up 24% from a year earlier and 22% on a constant-currency basis, while net income rose to $2.39 billion, or $1.17 a share,
McDonald’s second-quarter results delivered a useful warning about the American consumer: even a company built around convenience and value cannot rely on price and product mix indefinitely when customer traffic is weakening. The fast-food group reported higher profit and revenue, but its U.S. comparable-sales growth
Boeing has finally secured U.S. certification for the 737 MAX 7, removing one of the most persistent regulatory obstacles hanging over its commercial-aircraft recovery. The Federal Aviation Administration approved the smallest member of the MAX family for commercial service on Monday after years of testing, design changes and
Lloyds Banking Group has given investors a clean example of the choice facing large retail banks in a higher-rate world: harvest today’s profits, or spend aggressively to make the franchise less dependent on the rate cycle. The British lender’s first-half results were strong enough to support
Samsung Electronics has delivered a powerful signal that the artificial intelligence buildout is reshaping the memory-chip cycle, but its record quarter also raises a harder question for investors: whether extraordinary pricing power can survive the industry’s next wave of capacity spending. The South Korean technology group said Thursday
Rio Tinto’s first-half results give investors a different read on the artificial-intelligence buildout than the one coming from chip stocks. The miner is not selling servers or software, but its numbers show how the race to build data centers, electrify grids and secure battery materials is changing
Mercedes-Benz has given investors a mixed but useful read on the state of global luxury autos: the group can still defend earnings with vans, finance and cost reductions, but its core car business is being squeezed in the market that once gave German premium brands their strongest growth story.
The Federal Reserve enters this week’s policy meeting with an unusual problem: investors are not simply debating whether rates are high enough, they are debating how much guidance the central bank intends to give them. That makes the July 28-29 meeting a test of Kevin Warsh’s early
Kuwait’s $16 billion pipeline agreement with Blackstone, Brookfield and KKR is more than a large infrastructure financing. It is a test of whether Gulf energy states can use private capital to unlock cash from strategic assets without surrendering operational control at a moment when oil infrastructure, fiscal planning and
