Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world King Charles and Queen Camilla were greeted at the White House by Donald Trump on Monday as they began a high-stakes trip to the US. The four-day state visit comes as the transatlantic…
A pedestrian walks by a Domino’s Pizza on Dec. 9, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Domino’s Pizza stock closed down more than 8% on Monday after it reported weaker-than-expected U.S. same-store sales growth. The chain’s domestic same-store sales rose just 0.9%, lower than the 2.3% bump expected by Wall Street…
Investing.com — Short seller Hunterbrook Capital disclosed on Monday it has taken a short position in , citing concerns about the private equity firm’s accounting practices and vulnerability to investor redemptions. The $4 billion market cap firm, which manages or advises on $1 trillion in assets, has increasingly relied on purchasing secondary stakes in private…
The artificial intelligence boom has one big thing holding it back: energy. A.I. companies rely on power-hungry data centers to train their models, and they need gigawatts of power to keep them humming. With only so much energy to go around and only so much funding to build new infrastructure, it’s fiercely competitive out there….
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinese social network Weibo published its annual report last week. In it was a warning — the same one the company has published regularly since it first went public in New York in 2014 —…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russian forces have withdrawn from a stronghold in northern Mali as the country’s Moscow-backed regime reels from a series of co-ordinated assaults that killed the defence minister and left the ruling military junta shaken. Mali,…
A view shows a board with the logo of Shell at the company’s fuel station in Saint Petersburg, Russia May 6, 2022. Anton Vaganov | Reuters British oil major Shell on Monday said it agreed a deal to buy Canadian energy company ARC Resources in an output-boosting deal valued at $16.4 billion. The transaction will…
Sam Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank. Courtesy: Customers Bank Nearly half an hour into a conference call on Friday to discuss first-quarter results with analysts, Customers Bank CEO Sam Sidhu revealed something unusual — up until that point, he hadn’t actually been speaking. “The prepared remarks you heard on my behalf today were delivered by…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US Air Force moved into Lakenheath in Britain in 1948. Ramstein air base was established in Germany in the early 1950s. Today there are over forty US military bases in Europe, hosting…
China’s state planner on Monday called for Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese roots. The decision to prohibit foreign investment in Manus was made in accordance with laws and regulations, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a brief statement. It added that it has…
