CSIS: Ukraine war casualties top 2 million since 2022

Combined Russian and Ukrainian military casualties have surpassed 2 million since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, according…

China’s sweeping overseas investment rules take effect

Sweeping regulations linking outbound investment to national security took effect in China on Tuesday, giving authorities broad new…

Foreign investors pull $137B from Asian stocks in record H1 exodus

Foreign investors withdrew a net $137.36 billion from Asian equities in the first half of 2026, the fastest…

Kazakhstan agrees to ship gasoline to Russia as fuel crisis deepens

Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Sunday that the country faces a "certain deficit" of fuel, marking the…

AI’s trillion-dollar debt binge reshapes private bond market

The artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, now requiring trillions in capital, has spilled into one of Wall Street's oldest…

SoftBank revives $10B loan talks backed by OpenAI stake

SoftBank Group has resumed negotiations with a consortium of lenders for a $10 billion margin loan secured by…

Global equity fundraising hits highest level since 2021

Worldwide equity fundraising reached $729.4 billion in the first half of 2026, marking the second-highest start to a…

European bank stocks post best quarter in years

European banking stocks surged in the second quarter of 2026, delivering their strongest quarterly performance in years and…

Venezuela earthquake death toll rises to 2,295 one week after twin quakes

One week after back-to-back magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes devastated northern Venezuela, the official death toll has risen…

Apple lobbies Trump admin to buy chips from blacklisted Chinese firm

Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to purchase memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a…

Robinhood launches its own blockchain with tokenized stocks

Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain on Wednesday, July 1, marking the online brokerage's full entry…

ECB’s Stournaras calls July rate hike unlikely after inflation drop

European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said Wednesday that the central bank likely does not need…

Bitcoin ETFs cap worst month on record with $4.5B in June outflows

U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds ended June on a dismal note, recording $222.64 million in net outflows on…

Webb telescope detects atmosphere on planet orbiting a dead star

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the first atmospheric characterization of a planet orbiting a dead star,…

IOC denies Olympic team status to Greenland, Faroe Islands

The International Olympic Committee ruled Wednesday that Greenland and the Faroe Islands will not be recognized as separate…

Musk denies report that SpaceX showed AI device to investors

Elon Musk on Wednesday denied a report from The Wall Street Journal News Corp that SpaceX had privately…

Kane’s late brace lifts England past DR Congo at World Cup

Harry Kane scored twice in the final 15 minutes on Wednesday to rescue England from the brink of…

China becomes net olefins exporter as Iran war reshapes trade

The conflict in Iran has upended Asia's petrochemicals supply chains, turning China from the world's largest importer of…

Amazon’s carbon emissions rose 16% in 2025 amid data center boom

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. emitted roughly 81 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2025, a 16% jump…

Google taps MediaTek over Broadcom for TPUv9 AI chip

Google Alphabet Inc. has chosen MediaTek to develop its ninth-generation Tensor Processing Unit, codenamed "Triggerfish," according to a…

Vint Cerf, ‘father of the internet,’ to retire from Google next week

Vinton Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP and widely recognized as one of the fathers of the internet, is stepping…

Russia’s crude exports hit post-invasion high as revenues sink

Russia's seaborne crude oil shipments have climbed to their highest level since before Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine,…

KNDS postpones landmark IPO after failing to meet valuation target

Franco-German defense group KNDS, the maker of Leopard 2 tanks and Caesar howitzers, has postponed its planned initial…

518-million-year-old fossil reveals earliest spider fangs

A 518-million-year-old marine creature preserved in the rocks of southern China has yielded the earliest known evidence of…

SoftBank deploys second $10B tranche of OpenAI bet

SoftBank Group completed a $10 billion investment in OpenAI on July 1, deploying the second tranche of its…

Fitch flags AI-driven job losses as emerging global credit risk

Fitch Ratings has flagged artificial intelligence and heavy digital infrastructure spending as emerging global credit risks, warning that…

Central bankers warn AI boom risks painful repricing

At the European Central Bank's annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, which concludes today, economists and central bankers delivered…

European shares slip as U.S.-Iran talks stall

European shares slipped on Wednesday, pausing after a strong second-quarter finish as investors grew cautious over signs that…

ECB policymakers split on next rate hike as eurozone inflation eases

European Central Bank Governing Council member Ulo Kaasik said on Wednesday that at least one more interest rate…

Oil posts largest quarterly drop since 2008 as Hormuz reopens

Crude oil prices closed out the second quarter on Tuesday with their steepest quarterly decline in years, as…