CANADA – 2025/08/07: In this photo illustration, the SoftBank Group (Soft Bank) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares in Japanese tech-focused investment giant SoftBank Group soared 16.5% Thursday, amid a broader tech-fueled rally that saw Japan’s…
As healthcare costs soar, it’s not only individual Americans feeling the financial pain and looking to make trade-offs. Employers are scouring for ways to cut back and generous paid parental leave is among the employee benefits on the chopping block. Zoom Communications announced tweaks to its parental leave policy to bring the benefit more in…
Shares of Blue Owl, the private credit firm at the center of recent jitters over exposure to software companies, jumped 10% in trading Thursday after executives disclosed sizable gains tied to SpaceX. “We made about 10 times our money on that investment,” an executive said on the firm’s first-quarter earnings call. Blue Owl has already…
To Kevin M. Warsh, the Federal Reserve’s more than $6 trillion portfolio of government bonds and mortgage-backed securities is emblematic of everything that has gone wrong at the institution he hopes to lead. The Fed’s decision to expand its portfolio by so much and so quickly since the 2008 global financial crisis has stoked inflation,…
Lufthansa Group, the German airline, said it would cut 20,000 flights over the next six months to save jet fuel as the pressure builds on companies to address surging prices and declining supplies of energy caused by the war in Iran. The airline said on Tuesday that it had already announced which flights it had…
A United Airlines plane approaches the runway at Denver International Airport on March 23, 2026. Al Drago | Getty Images United Airlines slashed its 2026 earnings outlook Tuesday as it grapples with a surge in jet fuel prices due to the Iran war, but CEO Scott Kirby said demand remains strong. United said it could…
It seems as though stars have been shooting across the heavens far more than usual lately. In March, fireball after fireball coursed through the skies of North America and Europe. Some of the dazzling apparitions dropped meteorites in their wake. In Ohio, space shards set down in fields and forests. Other rocky visitors smashed through…
Shorouk Express After the UK government recently unveiled immigration plans inspired by another centre-left government in Copenhagen, The Local looks to Spain and considers how the hardline Danish model isn’t the only way to respond to Europe’s surge in anti-immigration sentiment. There are arguably only three centre-left governments left in western Europe: Denmark, Spain and…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 30 October 2025 03:17 (UTC +04:00) Iran’s daily gas supply to the national network has increased by roughly 7 million cubic meters, supporting industrial plants and Thermal Power Stations while winter consumption rises. Access to paid information is limited If You already have a account, please log…
Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The NHS’s total liabilities for medical negligence have hit £60 billion, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said. The amount has been attributed…
