Year: 2025
Switzerland tourism boosted as women’s soccer continues record-breaking rise
Holland Women huddle during the Euro 2025 match against France at the St Jakob Park on July 13, 2025 in Basel, Switzerland. Soccrates Images | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images The ongoing boom in women’s soccer is delivering a tourism spending boost to Switzerland this summer, as international visitors descend for the Euro 2025 […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Kenvue, Rivian, Affirm, SolarEdge Technologies and more
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Kenvue — The Neutrogena-maker jumped 4.5% after the company said its CEO Thibaut Mongon has stepped down . Kenvue said its board is conducting a strategic review of the company and is considering a range of possible alternatives, such as simplifying the company’s portfolio. nCino — […]
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Athlete-backed Jams takes on peanut butter and jelly, protein craze
Connor Blakley Jams founder Jams The classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich is getting a modern day upgrade and backing from some top athletes. Jams, a new company created by 26-year-old Connor Blakley, launched Monday and hopes to take on Smucker’s Uncrustables as the next locker room and lunch box staple. Like Uncrustables, the sandwiches […]
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Trump’s 30% tariff letter leaves EU scrambling to bring U.S. on side
US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, July 13, 2025. Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images The European Union has been left scrambling after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would slap a 30% tariff on goods imported from […]
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India’s inflation cools to 2.1% in June, extending slide to more than 6-year lows
A laborer loads consumer goods onto a supply cart at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, on November 11, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images India’s consumer inflation continued to ease in June, hitting a lower-than-expected 2.10%, government data showed on Monday. The headline inflation rate extended its slide after dropping to a more […]
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What Trump’s 30% tariff threat means for the European Union — in charts
Key Points The U.S. and EU have the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world, representing almost 30% of global trade in goods and services. Last year alone, the value of EU-U.S. trade amounted to 1.68 trillion euros ($1.96 trillion). That’s the equivalent of roughly 4.6 billion euros of trade per day. U.S. […]
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‘To be free in this world, you must be feared’: France’s Macron calls for defense spending boost
France’s President Emmanuel Macron arrives to deliver a speech to army leaders at l’Hôtel de Brienne in Paris on July 13, 2025, on the eve of the annual Bastille Day Parade in the French capital. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced plans for a substantial increase in […]
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Wall Street sounds alarm on Europe’s economy over renewed U.S. tariff threat
U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 30% tariff on European Union goods has investment banks warning that the move could trigger a “prolonged and deeper economic slowdown” across the continent and potentially force the European Central Bank to cut rates. Trump revealed the new rates in letters to European Commission President Ursula von […]
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Musk says he does not support a merger between Tesla and xAI but backs investment
Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images Elon Musk on Monday said he does not support a merger between xAI and Tesla, as questions swirl over the future relationship of the electric automaker and artificial intelligence company. X account @BullStreetBets_ posted an open question to Tesla investors on the […]
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Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases new Kimi AI model that beats ChatGPT, Claude in coding — and it costs less
Key Points Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot released late Friday night its Kimi K2 model as a low-cost, open source large language model, with a focus on coding capabilities. Moonshot claimed Kimi K2 surpassed Claude Opus 4 on two benchmarks, and had better overall performance than OpenAI’s coding-focused GPT-4.1 model, according to several industry metrics. Coincidentally, OpenAI […]
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