The global videogame market’s growth rate is expected to improve marginally in 2025 from the previous year, according to a report from research firm Newzoo, seen exclusively by Reuters on Tuesday. Analysts and industry experts had projected a surge in…

U.S. solar stocks dropped in premarket trading on Tuesday after a Senate panel proposed a full phase-out of solar and wind energy tax credits by 2028, as part of changes suggested to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill….

MOSCOW -Rising tensions in the Middle East will accelerate natural gas negotiations between Russia and China, with a decision likely this year, the head of a think-tank that advises the Russian government on China told Reuters. Russia has been seeking…

NEW YORK -Amazon.com’s annual Prime Day sales event is scheduled for July 8 through July 11, expanding to four days from two days compared to last year, the company announced on Tuesday. “We’re extending it to four days because our…

LONDON -War risk insurance premiums for shipments to Israel are as much as three times higher than a week ago as the war between Israel and Iran entered its fifth day, industry sources said on Tuesday. The cost of a…

U.S. stock futures slipped and oil prices rose on Tuesday, as investors were rattled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for everyone to evacuate Tehran, with the fifth day of Israel-Iran fighting sowing fears of a broader regional conflict. Markets…

Coinbase is seeking a green light from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to offer “tokenized equities” to its customers, the crypto exchange’s chief legal officer told Reuters. If granted, the move would allow Coinbase to effectively offer stock trading…

General Mills said on Tuesday it would remove artificial colors from its full U.S. retail portfolio by the end of 2027. The Cheerios maker also said it would remove synthetic dyes from all its U.S. cereals and foods served in…

Critical Metals Corp has received a letter of interest from the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) for a loan worth up to $120 million to fund the company’s Tanbreez rare earths mine in Greenland, in what would be the Trump administration’s…

TOKYO -Oil prices jumped in early Asian trade on Monday after Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on Sunday, heightening fears that escalating battle could trigger a broader regional conflict and widely disrupt oil exports from the Middle East. Brent…

TOKYO -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba heads to Canada on Sunday for trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, hoping to persuade him to drop trade tariffs that have imperilled Japan’s auto companies and threaten to undermine his fragile government….

NEW YORK -Dual risks kept investors on edge ahead of markets reopening late on Sunday, from heightened prospects of a broad Middle East war to U.S.-wide protests against U.S. President Donald Trump that threatened more domestic chaos. Israel launched a…

BEIJING/SINGAPORE -The renewed U.S.-China trade truce struck in London left a key area of export restrictions tied to national security untouched, an unresolved conflict that threatens a more comprehensive deal, two people briefed on detailed outcomes of the talks told…

Estee Lauder said on Sunday that its chairman emeritus, Leonard Lauder, died on Satuday at the age of 92. Lauder joined the company in 1958 and played a key role in transforming the business from a handful of products sold…

U.S President Donald Trump approved Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel on Friday, capping a tumultuous 18-month effort by the companies that survived union opposition and two national security reviews. Trump signed an executive order saying the tie-up…

TAIPEI -Taiwan has added China’s Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) to its export control list, which includes other proscribed organisations like the Taliban and al Qaeda. Inclusion on the economy ministry’s trade administration’s strategic high-tech commodities entity…

Amazon will invest 20 billion Australian dollars ($12.97 billion) from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate and maintain its data center infrastructure in Australia, aiming to bolster the nation’s artificial intelligence capabilities, the company said in a blog post on…

Elon Musk’s X was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Saturday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 6,700 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform as of 06:07 p.m. ET,…

BEIJING/HONG KONG -Boeing delivered a new 787-9 aircraft to China’s Juneyao Airlines on Saturday, Chinese media outlet Yicai reported, as trade tensions between Beijing and Washington ease. The delivery comes two days after a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 people…

WASHINGTON -The White House earlier this month directed the Defense Department and NASA to gather details on billions of dollars in SpaceX contracts following the public blowout between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, four people familiar with the…

U.S. President Donald Trump reported hundreds of millions of dollars in income from crypto, golf clubs and licensing ventures in a public financial disclosure report released on Friday that provided a glimpse of the vast business holdings of America’s billionaire…

SINGAPORE/NEW YORK -Donald Trump reported more than $600 million in income from crypto, golf clubs, licensing and other ventures in a public financial disclosure report released on Friday. The annual financial disclosure form, which appeared to cover the 2024 calendar…

Traders on Friday exchanged the most $80 West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil call options since January, expecting more upside to prices after Israeli airstrikes on Iran sparked fears of a wider Middle East conflict. Call options grant the holder…

World stock markets fell on Friday, and oil prices surged, as Israel launched military strikes on Iran, sparking inflows into safe havens such as gold and the dollar. An escalation in the Middle East – a major oil-producing region –…

WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would not fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, adding that he “may have to force something” as part of his ongoing push for the central bank to lower rates. “Raise your…

WASHINGTON -The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady next week, with investors focused on new central bank projections that will show how much weight policymakers are putting on recent soft data and how much risk they…

PARIS/LONDON -Negotiators representing French cognac producers suggested minimum prices for exports to China of between $20 and around $300 per litre as an opening bid in talks aimed at ending a tariff stand-off with China, a document seen by Reuters…

LONDON -British goods exports to the United States suffered a record fall in April after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed new tariffs, official figures showed on Thursday, pushing Britain’s goods trade deficit to its widest in more than three years….

LONDON -The dollar has sunk to its lowest in three years as rapidly changing U.S. trade policy unsettles markets and expectations build for Federal Reserve rate cuts, fuelling outflows from the world’s biggest economy. With the dollar down almost 10%…

WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration vowed on Wednesday to hold Boeing accountable after a series of safety issues raised questions about the U.S. planemaker. Republic Airways CEO Bryan Bedford said at a Senate Commerce…