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Bond market signals end of cheap money era for corporate borrowers
Rising Treasury yields and record government debt are pushing up borrowing costs for companies, with the 30-year yield …
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Alibaba shares fall after 75% profit plunge as AI spending weighs on earnings
Alibaba shares fell after reporting a 75% drop in quarterly profit, as heavy spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure …
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Walmart to use $2.9 billion tariff refunds to cut prices as shoppers feel strain
Walmart has received nearly $2.9 billion in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration's …
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Ust-Luga wage strike exposes contractor risk in a China-Russia megaproject
CC7, the EPC contractor for the Baltic Chemical Complex, faces protests by Chinese workers alleging up to five …
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Offer Acceptance Is Becoming a Weaker Hiring Signal
Gen Z ghosting data point to a new business problem: companies can no longer treat an accepted offer …
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Hogwarts Legacy Sequel Anchors Warner Bros.’ Narrower Games Portfolio
WBD has named the second Hogwarts Legacy inside a games pipeline designed to improve Studios profit. Its 40-million-copy …
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A $26m refusal exposes the land risk behind hyperscale data centres
Mason County rezoned 2,080 acres for a large data campus, but two landowners kept 534 acres despite offers …
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Pokémon Cards Test a New Market Structure as Onchain Spending Hits $324.6m
The trading-card boom is creating a business around custody, tokenised ownership and instant liquidity, even as the physical …
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Wamani Packages Geopolitical Risk as Private Infrastructure
Six entrepreneurs have spent almost $10 million on an Argentine ranch where land, solar power, aviation, food plans …
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Monte Paschi weighs escape routes from Intesa’s €30.6bn bid
MPS is using stronger earnings and capital to argue that independence has economic value as Intesa’s offer would …
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Anthropic’s $2tn IPO Case Rests on Revenue Velocity
Backers are modelling a valuation of at least $2tn, more than twice Anthropic’s latest private valuation. The public …
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YouTube doubles the viewing hurdle for new monetised channels
From February 2027, new creators will need 8,000 watch hours or 20 million Shorts views before sharing ad …
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EES turns border processing into an airport capacity problem
The EU’s biometric border regime is adding processing time where airport infrastructure is already constrained, pushing peak waits …
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Longevity Could Become a Trillion-Dollar Healthcare Shift
The commercial prize in anti-aging medicine is not immortality. It is delaying several expensive diseases at once — …
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The Creator-Economy Control Stack at the Center of the Tyukalo Case
Prosecutors allege that accounts, passwords, housing and cash flows were centralized inside an adult-content agency that could generate …
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Meta’s $92 Billion Reality Labs Loss Meets a Market Moving to Glasses
Meta spent years building a headset-led future, but the fastest growth in extended reality is now coming from …
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AI Is Breaking the Referral Economy That Built the Web
Publishers are losing the guarantee of a click, while stock-image and freelance platforms are losing the guarantee of …
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Accell’s failed sale turns a leveraged buyout into a European breakup
Four years after a KKR-led buyout, Accell has moved from creditor ownership to insolvency protection. Germany, France and …
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Security is becoming an operating cost for Italy’s McDonald’s franchisees
Guards, surveillance, lighting and police coordination are moving into the operating model of busy urban restaurants, while the …
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Greg Abel Tests a More Active Capital Playbook at Berkshire
Berkshire's new CEO has begun deploying a record liquidity reserve across public equities, buybacks and M&A while keeping …