Month: March 2025
Klarna lands buy now, pay later deal with DoorDash, notching another win ahead of IPO
Buy now, pay later firms like Klarna and Block’s Afterpay could be about to face tougher rules in the U.K. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Klarna, the buy now, pay later lender that’s headed for an initial public offering, said on Thursday that it’s signed on DoorDash as a partner, another sign of […]
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Political free fall: Turkey faces protests, investor flight after opposition leader’s arrest
Turkish MPs, mayors, party members, members of different political parties, representatives of non-governmental organizations and citizens protest against the detention warrant of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Beylikduzu Mayor Murat Calik and Sisli Mayor Resul Emrah Sahan, at the CHP Headquarters in Ankara, Turkey on March 19, 2025. Evrim Aydin | Anadolu | […]
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EU delays implementing first retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods to middle of April
EU flags flutter in front of European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany July 18, 2024. Jana Rodenbusch | Reuters The European Union will delay implementing its first set of tariffs on goods from the U.S. until the middle of April, an EU spokesperson told CNBC Thursday. “The Commission has decided to align the timing of the […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Five Below, Microchip Technology, ProAssurance and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. QXO — The building products distributor added 4.8% after announcing it would acquire rival Beacon Roofing Supply in a deal worth $11 billion. The deal is expected to close by the end of April. Shares of Beacon were trading 2% higher. PDD Holdings — The Temu […]
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Bank of England holds interest rates, warns global trade uncertainty has intensified
Bank of England, the Royal Exchange and the statue of the Duke of Wellington in the City of London on 19th February 2025 in London, United Kingdom. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images The Bank of England left interest rates unchanged Thursday as the U.K. economy contends with uncertainty around global trade and […]
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AMD’s Lisa Su has already vanquished Intel. Now she’s going after Nvidia
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, attends the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, Feb. 10, 2025. Benoit Tessier | Reuters When Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices in late 2014, the company was in dire straits and on the brink of potential bankruptcy. In its core market, […]
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Op Ed: India needs to urgently decarbonize its power sector. Here’s how it can succeed
India has always been a country of dichotomies. It is the world’s most populous nation, fifth biggest economy and home to the highest number of billionaires after China and the U.S. It is a world leader in digital finance, thanks to the creation of digital public infrastructure, and is the world’s third-largest start-up hub. Yet […]
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Huawei’s $1,000 foldable will run self-developed HarmonyOS 5 as it pushes Apple, Google alternative
Richard Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Consumer Business Group, introduces HUAWEI Pura X mobile phone at a new product launch conference on March 20, 2025 in Shenzhen, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Huawei’s Pura X, a foldable smartphone launched Thursday, is […]
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Edible Arrangements’ parent company is launching a marketplace for the other kind of edibles
The homepage for Edibles.com, the hemp marketplace from the parent company of Edible Arrangements Source: Edible Brands The parent company of Edible Arrangements is moving into a different kind of edible. Edible Brands is launching Edibles.com, an e-commerce marketplace for hemp products, like Cann drinks and Wana gummies. The 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp, which […]
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World’s largest sovereign wealth fund invests $740 million in London’s Covent Garden
Covent Garden market in London Julian Elliott Photography | Stone | Getty Images Norway’s $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund — the largest of its kind in the world — on Thursday said that it struck a deal to buy a quarter of a property portfolio in London’s iconic Covent Garden, in its latest bet on […]
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