Shell reported lower than expected profits in the final quarter of 2024, but raised its dividend by 4 per cent and said it would maintain its $3.5bn-a-quarter share buyback programme.

Hamas is due to free three Israeli hostages on Thursday in return for the release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners, in ...

Fiscal policy and monetary policy are always vying for top spot on the market’s list of concerns. For now, there is little to see at the Fed. What the market needs is clarity on the fiscal front.

Context: The EU appointed its first housing commissioner last year to deal with the increasingly dire living situation. In 2023, some 16 per cent of the EU population lived in an overcrowded household ...

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Goya Gallagher, founder of new Cairo-based lifestyle brand Anūt Cairo, referenced the Monument in the design of Nanusa, her ...

Chinese authorities have instructed some fund companies to keep management fees for QDII products no higher than 1.2 per cent ...

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Pietro Beccari is betting that the label’s sole title sponsorship of F1 will help it evolve from a fashion brand into a ‘cultural’ one ...

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Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

The Bangladesh student and people’s uprising of July and August last year overthrew the government of Sheikh Hasina, who had been running the country since 2009. She was widely accused of corruption ...