Companies have confronted investors with news of thousands of job cuts this earnings season as CEOs react to the rise of AI and the need to reduce costs.

Carrefour SA shares are poised to log their worst week since the global financial crisis after the supermarket operator warned that violent protests and looting across France will weigh heavily on its full-year outlook.

A recent rebound in shares of online grocer Ocado Group Plc may be just the start of a “sustained re-rating,” according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts.

Market strategists predict that the earnings season just kicking off in Europe will be a blockbuster one, with sectors including technology and energy taking the lead in beating profit estimates across the continent.

Strong corporate earnings will be pivotal to hopes for a year-end rally in global stocks, as flare-ups in fears over inflation, bond volatility and artificial intelligence spending weigh on sentiment.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategists are turning positive on global stocks for the short term, citing a boost from strong earnings for markets already trading near all-time highs.

Investors just poured money into cash funds at the fastest pace since the pandemic, and are unlikely to shift it anytime soon, according to Bank of America Corp.’s Michael Hartnett.

UK lawmakers narrowly voted to shelve a bill to legalize assisted dying in England and Wales during a quiet Friday sitting at which a lukewarm government stance tipped votes in favor of opponents to the law.

Tanzania is gauging investor appetite for its first international bond sale in more than a decade, holding a non-deal roadshow in London on Wednesday.

Franklin Templeton’s main emerging equity fund has scaled back on memory chipmakers’ shares after their huge rally, instead favoring Chinese internet names such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd.

The European Central Bank will probably still consider raising interest rates in September even after a substantial decline in energy prices since its last meeting, according to Torsten Slok, chief economist of Apollo Global Management Inc.

The European Central Bank will probably still consider raising interest rates in September even after a substantial decline in energy prices since its last meeting, according to Torsten Slok, chief economist of Apollo Global Management Inc.

Under pressure from soaring energy prices and labor costs, Britain’s ceramics industry has become a political football ahead of the elections.

Polls show the SNP is on course to win a fifth straight term in this week’s election after Labour’s collapse in popularity.

Abraham was studying in a synagogue in Golders Green, north London, on Wednesday morning when someone rushed in with a warning: lock the doors, an attacker is on the rampage. Just outside, two Jewish men had been stabbed. Police surrounded the assailant, and arrested him on suspicion of attempted murder. For the 40–year-old Israeli, a visit to friends became a reminder of how quickly a sense of normality can shatter, even far from home.

Europe faces recession if the Strait of Hormuz crisis isn’t resolved within a month, according to Mark Dowding, chief investment officer for fixed income of RBC Bluebay Asset Management.

A bill to legalize assisted dying in England and Wales fell by the wayside on Friday when the bill ran out of time after becoming snarled in the upper chamber of Britain’s parliament.

Forty-eight hours of brutal public inquiry into Keir Starmer’s judgment have left the prime minister looking increasingly like a leader on his way out.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told representatives from the largest US tech companies that they “can’t go on like this” when it comes to online protections for children.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told British media that the Iran war is worth a “small bit of economic pain,” ahead of what is likely to be a tense meeting with his UK counterpart, Rachel Reeves.