Germany’s decades-long experiment with a fully volunteer military is entering a new chapter. On Thursday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative-led government and the centre-left Social Democrats reached a long-awaited compromise on the future of military service — a core pillar of…
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When UBS absorbed Credit Suisse in March 2023, the historic state-engineered rescue was framed as the only viable path to prevent a broader banking crisis. More than two years later, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) says the aftershocks are still…
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European financial officials are quietly debating whether to pool dollar reserves across multiple central banks in an attempt to reduce their exposure to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s liquidity backstops — a foundational piece of the global financial system that has…
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Elon Musk on Thursday forcefully denied reports that his artificial intelligence startup xAI has raised $15 billion in a new Series E funding round, dismissing CNBC’s latest claim as “false” in a statement posted to X. The denial comes at…
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Pfizer has officially closed its acquisition of Metsera in a deal worth up to $10 billion, marking one of the drugmaker’s largest strategic bets in years and its most decisive re-entry into the booming global obesity market. The deal, approved…
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Europe’s already strained semiconductor supply chain is facing a new, highly complex rupture as major customers of Nexperia—the Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker—move to engineer a temporary workaround to keep critical automotive components flowing. According to sources familiar with the discussions, automakers…
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The political battle over Jeffrey Epstein’s legacy entered a volatile new phase this week as House lawmakers prepared to vote on a resolution requiring the Justice Department to publish its unclassified Epstein files. The move comes amid the release of…
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South Korea’s economy slowed down on Thursday—not because of markets, inflation data, or global risk sentiment, but because more than 550,000 students sat for the country’s notoriously high-stakes university entrance exam, the Suneung. The test, which has the power to…
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A quiet but consequential process inside the U.S. Federal Reserve is drawing unusual scrutiny as political pressure intensifies in Washington. The reappointment cycle for the Federal Reserve’s 12 regional bank presidents—traditionally a routine administrative exercise—is now emerging as a potential…
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The race to own the future of artificial intelligence is no longer about algorithms — it’s about infrastructure.On Wednesday, Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI developers, announced a $50 billion investment to build a network of data centers across the United States…
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