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By Colleen Goko JOHANNESBURG, May 7 - South Africa's improving fiscal performance and reform momentum should help government debt stabilise this year before gradually declining, Moody's Ratings said

PARIS, May 7 (Reuters) - Amazon's Prime Video will invest at least 90 million euros ($105.95 million) in European video and movie production in French language this year, the French telecoms regulator

May 7 (Reuters) - Westlife Foodworld, which operates McDonald's restaurants in west and south India, reported a 56% rise in fourth-quarter profit on Thursday on steady demand for discounted meals.

Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) raised its 2026 full year guidance after the launch of its oral Wegovy weight loss pill in the U.S. Prescriptions for the oral version have surpassed 2,000,000 since January, signaling strong demand for the new format. The update comes during a period of intense competition with Eli Lilly and ongoing pricing pressures in the weight loss drug market. Novo Nordisk, trading at $45.76, sits at the center of the current weight loss drug story, with oral Wegovy adding a...

Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) executives highlighted subscriber growth at HBO Max, continued momentum at the company’s studios, and improving trends across linear networks during the company’s first-quarter 2026 earnings call. Management also noted that it would not take questions about the pr

The S&P 500 is not just beating earnings expectations. It's blowing them up.

The stock market has soared to record highs in recent weeks, and one sector has been doing a lot of the work.

Arm shares tumbled on Thursday after the company warned of smartphone market softness and challenges in securing supply for its ‌new artificial intelligence chip to meet growing demand. The stock fell 5% ‌to $225.43, with the drop set to erase more than $12 billion from the company's market valuation of $252 ​billion. The British chip designer's shares have more than doubled in value this year, outperforming other chip majors.

Oil prices fell further, extending a sharp decline from a day earlier on investor optimism about diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran. Brent crude, the global benchmark, was more than 2% lower at around $99 a barrel.

While overall layoffs dropped in the first four months of 2026, AI helped drive more than 85,000 job cuts at technology companies.

While investors obsess over uptake of GLP-1 pills in the U.S., international sales are just as important.

Shale companies are cautiously dialing up output and hinting at a prolonged period of high oil prices.

Shell reported surging earnings as the Iran war brought a trading windfall. Shell’s first-quarter adjusted earnings rose to $6.92 billion from the $3.26 billion it reported in the prior quarter. Shell’s American depositary receipts were down 1.9% in premarket trading.

(Bloomberg) -- In some circles on Wall Street, the hottest debate isn’t about a tech-stock bubble or $100 oil as the new norm. It’s whether 30-year Treasury yields will mount a sustained push over 5%.Most Read from BloombergUS Has Opened a Passage Through Hormuz, Central Command SaysDOJ Plans Intervention in Trump Supreme Court Carroll AppealUS Says Offensive Phase of Iran War Over as Ship Hit in StraitSony to Pay Almost $4 Billion for Bieber, Neil Young CatalogUS, Iran Weigh Potential Deal as T

(Bloomberg) -- Just months into China’s housing downturn, the nation’s second-biggest developer declared the worst is over. A year later, its chairman backtracked on the call, and by 2025, it was teetering on the brink of a default.Most Read from BloombergUS Has Opened a Passage Through Hormuz, Central Command SaysDOJ Plans Intervention in Trump Supreme Court Carroll AppealUS Says Offensive Phase of Iran War Over as Ship Hit in StraitSony to Pay Almost $4 Billion for Bieber, Neil Young CatalogUS

The lead of one of the most profitable hedge funds on Wall Street leveled with investors about rising prices.

The FCA’s move comes amid rising digital wallet usage in the UK.

Coca-Cola HBC (LON:CCH) reported “a strong quarter of high-quality organic revenue growth” in its first-quarter 2026 trading update, with management reiterating full-year guidance despite what CEO Zoran Bogdanovic described as a “challenging and unpredictable external environment.” Q1 growth driven

GameStop is looking to acquire a much larger company than itself.

Shares in tech investor SoftBank Group jumped 18.4% in Tokyo today, marking their biggest gain since the pandemic. The move helped drive the Nikkei 225 5.6% higher to close at a record level. It came on the heels of a surge in optimism in chip stocks in the U.S., after shares in AMD and other chip makers rose following results late Tuesday.

Just as the world's AI bulls looked to be running out of puff, a fresh investor frenzy has hit Asia's tech names, making Seoul's stock market the world's hottest and delivering bonuses of half a million dollars to workers at one Korean chipmaker. Asia's three most valuable companies are chipmakers - ‌Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix - and their recent record earnings have put the spotlight on their critical role in the global AI supply chain. Chip revenues leapt nearly ‌50 times at Samsung last quarter and South Korea's benchmark KOSPI has doubled in little more than six months.

(Bloomberg) -- Shell Plc reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter earnings as the Iran war boosted trading profits and drove up energy prices, helping it to overcome a drop in oil and gas production from the conflict. Most Read from BloombergUS Has Opened a Passage Through Hormuz, Central Command SaysDOJ Plans Intervention in Trump Supreme Court Carroll AppealUS Says Offensive Phase of Iran War Over as Ship Hit in StraitSony to Pay Almost $4 Billion for Bieber, Neil Young CatalogUS, Iran We

Investors seem to be overlooking serious threats to the U.S. economy related to the Iran war and tariffs.

<p>A new era of child savings has arrived. Trump Accounts—formally known as Section 530A accounts—are tax-advantaged investment vehicles created under the One Big Beautiful Bill, mandating that contributions flow into low-cost S&P 500 ETFs or similar index funds. With billionaires, states, and the federal government all piling in, these accounts could become one of the most significant new sources of ETF demand in decades.</p>

Quantum Motion on Thursday said it raised $160 million to fund its effort to build a quantum computer that is ‌smaller, cheaper and more energy efficient than rivals using standard silicon chipmaking techniques. Quantum ‌computers hold the promise of solving problems that regular computing machines cannot. Unlike the transistors in an everyday computer that can only represent a zero or a one at any given time, a qubit can represent both at once.

Earnings season marches on as investors will hear from big companies including McDonald's and CoreWeave. Data on the U.S. jobs market will also be watched closely, culminating in April nonfarm payroll numbers Friday.

Wall Street analysts project first-quarter sales growth of 139% from last year to almost $2 billion.