Budapest’s about-face follows Donald Trump’s threat to increase sanctions unless Moscow ends Ukraine war ‘soon’ ...

Research by Cornwall Insight is blow to government, which has made decarbonising electricity system a key goal ...

Since Trump’s election in November, the EU has clinched a long-awaited trade deal with the Mercosur bloc of South American countries, updated a free trade agreement with Mexico, and reopened ...

Some Chinese tech stocks advanced today amid the excitement over DeepSeek, although the wider CSI 300 index closed down 0.4 per cent. In Hong Kong Baidu closed 4 per cent up and Alibaba was up 3 per ...

Starbucks is acting with urgency. Its North American locations rang up 5 per cent fewer transactions in 2024, the first annual decline since the pandemic year 2020. Same-store sales are expected to be ...

Denton Peng, the onetime “solar king” of China who was briefly the country’s youngest billionaire, emigrated to California in ...

Kęstutis Budrys, Lithuania’s foreign minister, told the Financial Times that Europe was facing a “new era” after the Baltic ...

DeepSeek’s a two-years-old, Hangzhou-based spinout of a Zhejiang University company that used machine learning to trade equities. Its stated goal is to make an artificial general intelligence for the ...

Volkswagen is open to allowing Chinese carmakers to take over its excess production lines in Europe, as it grapples with ...

Pressure is piling on the European Union to cut back its sustainability agenda, Wall Street may thwart President Donald Trump ...

Investment in the fast-growing fried chicken sector ramped up last month as US investment group Sixth Street paid £400mn to ...

Streetwear is wearing thin. Sales at Puma rose just 4 per cent last year; the German sneaker maker lost more than 20 per cent ...