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A 15-year-old boy gets into a taxi outside Stockholm hiding a loaded gun and asks to be taken to the Israeli embassy. A 13-year-old in Gothenburg is caught firing shots at Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems. At the same facility, a 16-year-old helps to plant home-made explosives outside the main entrance.
Cocoa’s rally has soared past all major commodities in 2024, and there’s little sign the tight supply and fragile trading landscape that prompted its near-vertical trajectory are in for a fast fix.
A raft of projects to produce green hydrogen, a fuel billed as critical to reaching net zero, have been abandoned this year as expectations for tumbling costs failed to materialize.
Party City Holdco Inc. plunged into bankruptcy for the second time in two years after sales faltered under the yoke of stubborn inflation.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s pursuit of closer ties with China has raised private questions from Donald Trump’s incoming administration, European diplomats and even some senior British officials.
Germany’s Gerhardi Kunststofftechnik GmbH weathered Napoleon’s invasion, the Great Depression and two world wars. But Europe’s current auto slump has brought the plastics manufacturer to its knees.
Boeing Co. Chief Information Officer Susan Doniz is leaving the company, Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg told employees in a memo on Friday.
A Starbucks Corp. strike of unionized baristas has spread to three more cities in the US, disrupting service during the final days of the crucial holiday season.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google called a US Justice Department plan to force it to sell its web browser “extreme” and at odds with the law, urging a federal court judge to take caution lest he stifle innovation and future investment.
Nippon Steel Corp. alleges the White House had undue influence over a national security review of the Japanese company’s $14.9 billion bid for United States Steel Corp. and threatened legal action if the deal is blocked, Reuters reported.
President Joe Biden set a new record for federal judicial confirmations in a single term, when Serena Murillo became his 235th life-tenured federal judge confirmed by the US Senate as lawmakers worked into the night ahead of a holiday break.
Stepping out of the Port Authority bus terminal late in the evening on Nov. 24, authorities say, Luigi Mangione took a taxi to the New York Hilton Midtown, where UnitedHealth Group Inc. planned its annual investor conference 10 days later.
The world’s biggest stablecoin issuer, Tether Holdings Ltd., is on track to close the year with more than $10 billion in net profits, Chief Executive Officer Paolo Ardoino said in an interview.
Singapore’s main stock index is on track to have its best annual performance since 2017, but any celebrations over the Straits Times Index’s 15% gain so far this year are likely to be overshadowed by doubts about what lies ahead.
Tai Mo Shan Ltd., part of Jump Trading’s crypto unit, agreed to pay $123 million to settle a US regulator’s claims it misled investors about the stability of the TerraUSD algorithmic stablecoin.
Cryptocurrency companies are adding to their financial support for Donald Trump by pledging to donate to the president-elect’s inaugural committee.
