It is far easier and cheaper to keep someone housed in a mobile home park than to build a new subsidized unit for them.
June 03, 2026
Prolonged disruption of energy supplies from the Middle East that lasts into next year would deal a severe blow to the global economy
June 03, 2026
Private infrastructure and real estate capital are expected to play a larger role in financing the AI-driven data-center boom, as companies move beyond traditional forms of funding,
June 03, 2026
(Amends dateline) By Gleb Bryanski and Elena Fabrichnaya ST.
June 03, 2026
JAKARTA, June 3 - The Indonesian parliament's financial commission and the government agreed at a hearing on Wednesday to reform the laws relating to the country's financial system and expand the
June 03, 2026
What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets Oil prices and bond yields have pushed higher as hostilities in the
June 03, 2026
The European Central Bank is set to raise its deposit rate to 2.25% on June 11, with another increase likely in September, as it
June 03, 2026
Felicia de la Caridad Alvarez, a resident of Old Havana, knows a thing or two about survival.
June 03, 2026
The U.S. dollar is expected to stay range-bound in the near term before weakening later this year, FX strategists said in a Reuters survey, on optimism
June 03, 2026
Market intelligence platform AlphaSense said on Wednesday it has raised $350 million at a valuation of $7.5 billion, nearly double that of its funding round two years ago.
June 03, 2026
Indonesian authorities arrested the recently dismissed head of an agency overseeing President Prabowo Subianto's flagship free meals programme on
June 03, 2026
The Swiss government on Wednesday rejected U.S. findings on how dozens of economies, including Switzerland, deal with goods produced by forced labour, a probe that prompted
June 03, 2026
European automotive, construction, metals, chemicals and transport sectors could lose up to 1.3 million jobs this year as a result of a surge in energy prices caused by
June 03, 2026
The world’s biggest tech companies are betting big on computers that control themselves
June 03, 2026
Cuba’s doctors are its biggest soft power export. Several Latin American countries are cutting ties
June 03, 2026
NBA Finals: Would you pay $4,000 – for a nosebleed seat?
June 03, 2026
Ford Motor will recall 419,967 vehicles in the U.S. as seat belts that do not retract or extend properly can fail to restrain occupants as intended, increasing the risk of injury in
June 03, 2026
British services firms suffered a small fall in activity in May as the strains of the Iran war pushed up their costs sharply and hit
June 03, 2026
Spanish hotel group Melia said on Wednesday it would immediately stop managing, marketing and providing brand services for 15 hotels in Cuba, pointing to the island's
June 03, 2026
European shares slipped on Wednesday as escalating Middle East tensions and fresh jitters over private markets pushed investors
June 03, 2026
It is not a given that the current inflation shock facing the euro zone will be more benign than the 2022 episode, as some initial conditions flag larger inflationary
June 03, 2026
Greater Toronto Area home sales posted their biggest monthly gain in 10 months in May, helped by improved affordability, while prices resumed their recent
June 03, 2026
Zara owner Inditex reported a strong start to summer trading on Wednesday as currency-adjusted sales grew 11.5% in May, handily beating analyst expectations,
June 03, 2026
An Instagram hack that saw attackers talk Meta's AI support chatbot into handing over access to high-profile accounts has exposed a
June 03, 2026
The European Central Bank met commercial lenders last week to discuss the potential threat from the newest artificial intelligence models and will follow up with demands
June 03, 2026
With the Iran war stretching into its fourth month, U.S. retail companies that have so far banked on a resilient consumer could
June 03, 2026
The charge higher in U.S. technology stocks has made broader indexes as reliant as ever on the group -- and more vulnerable should those market leaders
June 03, 2026
The artificial-intelligence boom already has fueled a record stock-market surge. Now it's driving up long-term Treasury yields too.
June 03, 2026
Nippon Paint and Sherwin-Williams have terminated efforts to jointly acquire rival paint maker AkzoNobel, they said on Wednesday, sending the Dulux
June 03, 2026
A U.S. jury's fraud conviction of prominent investor Andrew Left this week could rewrite the playbook for activist short sellers,
June 03, 2026
Software stocks have rebounded from a punishing selloff as investors are betting that AI may boost the sector rather than leaving it for dead.
June 03, 2026
Beware the ghosts of IPOs past.
June 03, 2026
The 2026 World Cup is soccer's biggest stage, and for some of North America's rail and bus operators it will be a critical audition.
June 03, 2026
Conservative Keiko Fujimori will seek Peru's presidency on Sunday in a runoff vote, hoping that her tough-on-crime stance at a time of
June 03, 2026
Even before all the votes had been counted in last week's Republican Senate primary in Texas, party members began rolling out attacks on the Democratic candidate,
June 03, 2026
British competition regulators have mandated that Google must allow news sites to opt out of having their content scraped for AI overviews
June 03, 2026
How China’s World Cup dream unraveled – and how it’s slowly growing again
June 03, 2026
Three Australian appeals court judges have reserved their decision on whether an activist can prosecute King Charles III for alleged genocide of Australia’s Indigenous people
June 03, 2026
Spain's service sector activity stabilised in May as activity and sales returned to growth after April's decline, a business survey showed on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
The global economic outlook hinges on how long the war in the Middle East lasts, with recession in some countries and sharply higher inflation a real
June 03, 2026
France's services sector contracted at its sharpest pace in 5-1/2 years in May as weaker demand and rising costs due to the Iran war hammered businesses, a survey showed on
June 03, 2026
The yen weakened to levels that preceded intervention by Tokyo last month, prompting new warnings by policymakers on Wednesday and a small
June 03, 2026
Cost pressures in Italy's service sector hit a 40-month high in May as the impact of the conflict in the Middle East became more acute, a survey showed on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
E-commerce giant Amazon.com said on Wednesday it has launched its paid Prime service in South Africa, offering faster deliveries and media content for 59 South African rand ($3.61)
June 03, 2026
Euro zone private sector activity shrank at the fastest rate in 18 months in May as waning demand for goods and services — a key gauge of economic health — dragged output
June 03, 2026
Any new U.S. tariffs on European Union goods on top of the rates agreed last year would be unacceptable, senior EU lawmaker said on Wednesday, rejecting U.S. claims the EU
June 03, 2026
Germany's service sector contracted for a second straight month in May as subdued demand and high energy and other costs due to the war in the Middle East weighed on
June 03, 2026
Two Democrats and a Republican are leading in early returns in California’s crowded primary in the race to replace Gov. Gavin newsom
June 02, 2026
President Vladimir Putin has read long-term ally Armenia the riot act: persist in wanting to join the European Union and you can kiss goodbye to cheap
June 03, 2026
DeepSeek, China's best-known AI startup, is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round from investors including Tencent Holdings and CATL, people
June 03, 2026
Russia's services sector contracted in May at its quickest pace since September as weaker demand drove steeper falls in new orders and output, a business survey showed on
June 03, 2026
Philippine senators broke a days-long legislative standoff on Wednesday after a member of the majority bloc broke ranks and appeared on the Senate floor, allowing a rival
June 03, 2026
Britain has imposed new conduct requirements on Google's search services, including allowing publishers to stop their content being used to power the U.S. tech giant's AI features,
June 03, 2026
The United States has proposed an additional tariff of 12.5% on imports from India, saying it is among 60 economies that failed to curb imports made with
June 03, 2026
Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has clinched the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor
June 02, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Notwithstanding fresh hostilities in the Middle East, AI shares drove equity markets in Asia to new records on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
Russia downed 50 drones over the Leningrad region northwest of Moscow overnight and continues to repel the suspected Ukrainian attacks, Governor Alexander
June 03, 2026
Swiss voters look set to reject a referendum proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million people, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
In a surprise move ahead of its investor roadshow, Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to fix its IPO price at $135 per share to raise a record-setting $75 billion,
June 03, 2026
India's dominant services sector grew at its fastest pace in six months in May on a pick-up in domestic demand, even though global orders stayed below last year's average
June 03, 2026
Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek won Tuesday’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and will next try to flip the seat currently held by GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, who is retiring
June 02, 2026
The Solomon Islands' new leader says the country will review its secretive security treaty with China
June 03, 2026
Australia's Megaport said on Wednesday it has secured four new AI infrastructure contracts worth A$458.9 million and will raise A$827.3 million ($594 million)
June 03, 2026
Republican U.S.
June 03, 2026
Atlas Renewable Energy, one of South America's largest clean power generators, has put plans for $1 billion in new investments in
June 03, 2026
Cambodia is betting on a little-used UN arbitration process known as "compulsory conciliation" to resolve a long-running maritime boundary dispute with Thailand and unlock
June 03, 2026
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the central bank must discuss the pros and cons of raising interest rates if inflationary risks outweigh downside risks
June 03, 2026
The U.S.
June 03, 2026
Australia's economy slowed in the March quarter as strength in business investment was offset by a drag from trade, data showed on Wednesday, while higher
June 03, 2026
China's services activity expanded at the fastest pace in three months in May, helped by stronger growth in new business and a rebound in overseas demand, though rising
June 03, 2026
Japan's services sector ground to a halt in May after more than a year of expansion, as surging costs linked to the Middle East war dampened service demand and led to a 12-
June 03, 2026
The Office of the U.S.
June 03, 2026
South Korea's ruling Democratic Party is projected to make sweeping gains in local elections on Wednesday, an exit poll showed, but a close race in the key city
June 03, 2026
Gulf hostilities flared anew on Wednesday, with the U.S. military saying Iranian missile attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait and
June 03, 2026
Private equity-backed government contractor Applied Aerospace & Defense said on Tuesday it had raised $650 million in its U.S. initial public offering after pricing shares at $20
June 03, 2026
Gains for AI chipmaker stocks can continue, but risks of a pullback are growing, Goldman Sachs said in a note on Wednesday.
June 03, 2026
Bolivia's defense minister stepped down on Tuesday after a month of anti-government protests, two government sources said, marking the highest-level
June 03, 2026
Providers of property services in China are struggling to collect management fees from disgruntled homeowners, threatening their revenue and house
June 03, 2026
U.S.
June 02, 2026
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government on Wednesday finalised a $19 billion supplementary budget for this fiscal year to cushion the impact of rising energy
June 03, 2026
Bayer has no plans to spin off Monsanto, a representative said on Tuesday, even as the company faces an avalanche of lawsuits over its
June 03, 2026
The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science Foundation
June 03, 2026
Shopify said on Tuesday its board had approved an additional $3 billion share buyback program, bringing the Canadian e-commerce company's total repurchase authorization to $5
June 03, 2026
Mexico's sugar industry is pushing for the United States to eliminate limits on U.S. imports and is working on a potential anti-dumping case against
June 03, 2026
Ulta Beauty drew demand for higher-priced products and pulled in young customers through its CEO Kecia Steelman's TikTok push, helping
June 03, 2026
Videogame retailer GameStop posted a 14% rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, buoyed by strong collectibles demand, and said its board approved a new $2 billion share repurchase
June 03, 2026
OpenAI's ChatGPT has crossed 1 billion global monthly active app users, becoming the fastest app ever to reach the milestone, according to estimates from market intelligence firm
June 03, 2026
CopperTech Metals reported a jump in revenue in its filing for U.S. initial public offering on Tuesday, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's policy push for
June 03, 2026
Australia's Macquarie Group said on Tuesday its asset management arm and Brazil's IG4 Capital agreed to sell a controlling stake in Corredor Logística e Infraestrutura S.A (CLI) to
June 03, 2026
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh pledged to follow "the best of the Fed's traditions" in an opening note to the central bank's more than 20,000
June 03, 2026
The Trump administration is abandoning the president's $1.8 billion "weaponization" fund, U.S.
June 03, 2026
SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, plans to target a valuation of $1.75 trillion in its blockbuster initial public offering, which will consist entirely
June 02, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is still in discussions with several countries to resettle more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort
June 03, 2026
The Dallas Stars are planning to move north, out of downtown and to the suburb of Plano in five years
June 03, 2026
A California man known as the crypto “Godfather” has admitted to playing a key role in a botched Connecticut kidnapping nearly two years ago
June 03, 2026
The United States issued new Iran-related sanctions on Tuesday, targeting individuals and crypto exchanges, a notice on the Treasury Department website showed.
June 03, 2026
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has tapped two conservative policy veterans, Paul Winfree and Daniel Heil, to advise him while he settles into the job, the Wall Street Journal
June 03, 2026
Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno said on Tuesday the country intends to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and will
June 03, 2026
Anthropic on Tuesday said it was planning a wider rollout of its artificial intelligence that has caught the attention of government and financial
June 02, 2026
Small business owner steps in to help family whose van was stolen on vacation
Swastika flag raised at NYU leads to hate crime charges for Connecticut man
Trump’s new ‘Aliens’ website exploits UFO intrigue to demean immigrants
Fatal Virginia bus crash raises concerns about the long list of unfulfilled safety recommendations
House again considers war powers resolution to halt military action against Iran
Radio scans find no alien tech from the latest interstellar comet
Warrant: 'I did it' Teen accused of killing his sister admits to friend over FaceTime