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ECB cuts rates to 2.25% amid Trump trade war
Growth and inflation set to slow as central bankers prepare for tariff impact

Americans, it’s time to move to Europe
Europe outdoes the US on the key metrics of a good 21st-century life

TSMC isn’t worried about Trump’s trade uncertainty as it reports a 60% growth in quarterly profit
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s leading maker of advanced chips, is keeping its 2025 revenue outlook, even as the ...

Bitcoin miners in U.S. fear wipeout as 36% tariffs threaten to ‘destroy’ thriving industry
When China cracked down on the crypto industry in 2021, many Bitcoin miners set up shop in the U.S. instead. ...

Trump says Fed chair’s ‘termination cannot come fast enough’
Attack follows pressure from US president for the central bank to cut interest rates

Santander surpasses UBS as continental Europe’s biggest bank
Banco Santander SA is now the biggest bank in continental Europe by market value, leapfrogging UBS Group AG. The Spanish ...

Exclusive: Revel emerges from stealth with $30 million to prevent your critical hardware from exploding—literally
Scott Morton’s heart rate spiked at the same time, every time. Sitting in the flight control seat during SpaceX’s Starship ...

Freenow acquired by Lyft for $200 million as U.S. ridesharing firm makes bold entry into the European taxi market
US ridesharing firm Lyft said Wednesday it had agreed to buy German taxi app Freenow, planting a flag in the ...

European users’ public content and conversations will be used by Meta to train its AI models
Meta will start using public posts and comments by its European users to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) models from ...

Hermès to raise US prices following Trump’s tariffs
Maker of Birkin bags reports slower growth than expected as sector braces for impact of trade war

Japan’s trade surplus with the U.S. ballooned to $63 billion
Japan recorded a trade deficit in its March-April fiscal year but racked up a surplus with the U.S., the Finance ...

US House panel probes whether DeepSeek used restricted Nvidia chips
Lawmakers say the Chinese AI group is a ‘profound threat’ to national security

Trump touts ‘big progress’ in talks with Japan, one of the first countries trying to get a tariff reprieve
Negotiations between Japan and the U.S. are underway in Washington, in the first real test of whether U.S. President Donald ...

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang flies into Beijing for talks
Visit comes after US clamps down on chipmaker’s sales to China

When aliens call, look to the ‘little green swan’ trade
New markets could be opening up — even if they are 124 light years away

Trump weighs in on Japan trade talks but Tokyo team leaves without deal
First-in-queue negotiations closely watched for signs of US strategy

UK tests microwave weapon to disable drone swarms
‘RapidDestroyer’ uses a high-power radio frequency to fry systems at a distance

Astronomers claim strongest evidence yet of extraterrestrial life
Distant planet is covered with an ocean that may be teeming with microbial activity

Can Harvard withstand Trump?
The assault on America’s most venerable university is at the centre of the White House’s culture war

Santander deposes UBS as continental Europe’s most valuable bank
Swiss lender’s market capitalisation has been hit harder by US tariffs than Spanish rival

The Chinese Dream is to Xi what Maga is to Trump
Tariff conflict arises out of the collision course between two very different political mindsets

Is the world losing faith in the almighty US dollar?
Donald Trump’s trade war is forcing investors to confront the possibility that the dominance of the US currency might fade ...

Trading in two stocks surged before Trump family appointments announced
Experts view sharp rises in share price and turnover of Unusual Machines and Dominari as ‘clearly unusual’