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Getlink reported lower shuttle traffic through the Channel Tunnel in February 2026, with LeShuttle Freight moving 94,332 trucks - down 1% from February 2025 - and LeShuttle transporting 114,467 passenger vehicles, a 6% decline versus the same month a year earlier. The company linked the drop primarily to a calendar effect related to British winter …
Seisaku Kameda, the Bank of Japan's former chief economist, said the central bank is likely to postpone further tightening until around June or July because sustained conflict in the Middle East is keeping markets volatile. While April had been a plausible timing for a lift from 0.75% to 1.0% if hostilities eased, persistent instability increases t…
Senior U.S. officials have decided not to deploy the Treasury Department to execute oil futures trades at this time, according to a report citing an informed source. While the Treasury’s involvement was considered amid surging crude prices after the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East, officials judged the department’s ability to move markets t…
European Central Bank policymaker and Dutch central bank head reflects on market moves after the recent conflict in the Middle East, saying the earlier description of a central banker’s 'nirvana' no longer fits but that his assessment of the economy has not fundamentally changed. He emphasises data-dependence, the role of sensitivity analysis in pr…
Maersk announced a temporary suspension of two shipping services - the FM 1 route between the Far East and the Middle East, and the ME11 service linking the Middle East to Europe. The company said the decision is a precaution to safeguard personnel and vessels and to reduce potential operational impacts across its wider network.
Techtronic Industries underperformed in FY2025, but the company's portfolio - anchored by professional power tools, cordless consumer brands and floorcare - still benefits from secular cordless conversion and replacement cycles. This trade idea lays out a long entry, clear stop and a multi-month target that pays for a patient recovery while limitin…
Dutch central bank governor Olaf Sleijpen said a sharp rise in energy prices this week does not yet require a shift in European Central Bank policy. He stressed the bank can accept a small, temporary overshoot of its 2% inflation target and cautioned against drawing direct parallels to the 2021-22 inflation episode, while urging contingency analysi…
Tokyo's equity market closed higher on Friday with the Nikkei 225 up 0.63%, buoyed by advances in the Real Estate, Banking and Textile sectors. Tech-related Rohm Ltd led the index with a sizable gain and reached a 52-week high. Market breadth favoured advancers while implied volatility on Nikkei options fell sharply. Oil prices eased and gold futur…
Japanese authorities said they are prepared to act with international partners to counter market volatility and economic damage stemming from the conflict in Iran. Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama flagged the possibility of measures including an extra budget, while Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino warned that yen moves can feed through t…
Avio SpA has won a $65 million agreement with Defense Systems and Solutions to develop and begin producing solid propellant engines in the United States. The three-year contract covers engineering and initial production runs, with potential serial manufacturing at Avio’s U.S. facility in 2029. The work will supply defense systems destined for U.S. …
Israeli forces launched sustained airstrikes on Hezbollah-controlled neighborhoods in southern Beirut after directing residents to evacuate. Hezbollah in turn warned Israelis living near the Lebanon border to withdraw, and Lebanese authorities reported dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries from the recent strikes.
The U.S. Justice Department on March 5 posted FBI records that summarize interviews with an unidentified woman who made allegations about both Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump. The records show the woman was interviewed four times in 2019 as part of the Epstein probe and include claims that Trump attempted to force her to perform oral sex…
Australia’s sharemarket lost roughly A$130 billion ($91.4 billion) in market value over the week as a widening Middle East conflict and a turbulent corporate reporting period unsettled investors. The S&P/ASX 200 fell 3.8% since the weekend when strikes involving the United States and Israel against Iran began, and slid 1% on Friday. Record levels o…
Bitcoin fell in Asian trading, easing to $70,182.6 as investors digested an escalation of conflict in the Middle East that has pushed oil sharply higher. The drop, a 3.1% decline measured at 00:56 ET (05:56 GMT), comes after the token briefly traded above $74,000 earlier in the week and leaves it positioned for a roughly 7% gain on the week. Broade…
Moscow, Russia's wealthiest federal unit, will trim its 2026 investment programme and cut municipal staff after revenue growth slowed sharply in early 2026. The move highlights mounting regional fiscal pressure, with consolidated deficits rising, regions shifting toward costlier commercial borrowing, and social and military-related payments adding …
Lufthansa reported an adjusted operating profit of 2.0 billion euros for 2025, beating a Lufthansa-compiled analyst consensus of 1.9 billion euros and improving on 2024's 1.6 billion euros. The carrier also raised its operating margin to 4.9% from 4.4% a year earlier but said the 2026 outlook is opaque amid geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.…
Taiwan's main index ended the trading day lower on Friday, with the Taiwan Weighted down 4.35% at the close. Gains in a handful of small-cap natural gas and innovation names contrasted with steep losses in several other stocks, while energy and metals commodity prices and currency moves were mixed in overseas markets.
Fuel oil supplies bound for Asia have been severely disrupted after shipments through the Strait of Hormuz declined sharply due to the Iran war. Traders are scrambling for replacement cargoes from the West and regional refiners, but high tanker rates, sanctions, and constrained volumes are limiting options. The shortfall is driving up bunker fuel p…
UK ministers have decided to postpone planned modifications to copyright rules that would have made it easier for artificial intelligence companies to access and process protected media content. Officials told people briefed on the matter that responses to a two-month consultation failed to endorse any of the proposed frameworks, prompting a decisi…
Chinese regulators have approved Pfizer’s GLP-1 therapy Xianweiying, also known as ecnoglutide, for chronic weight management in overweight and obese adults. The approval adds a new competitor to a rapidly expanding class of GLP-1 receptor agonists sold in China and follows a licensing deal between Pfizer and Sciwind Biosciences for mainland commer…
Carlyle and CVC have struck arrangements to share portions of performance fees with UBS in return for the bank distributing their private capital products to affluent clients. Carlyle’s deal involves carried interest from an evergreen secondaries fund, while CVC agreed to allow UBS to share performance fees in an evergreen fund. At least two other …
Global markets traded unevenly on Friday as the Middle East conflict intensified, sending energy prices sharply higher and unsettling shipping and air travel. U.S. and European futures gained while Asian equities pared losses. Concerns about renewed inflation pushed yields up and prompted investors to price in more hawkish central bank stances. Att…
Most Asian currencies firmed slightly on Friday as the U.S. dollar eased modestly after a prior run-up, yet the region remains poised for weekly losses. Escalating hostilities involving Iran, Israel and the United States have pushed oil prices sharply higher this week, heightening concerns over energy supply disruptions and reigniting inflation and…
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 closed down 1.00% on Friday, pushed lower by losses in the Gold, Metals & Mining and Materials sectors. Market breadth favored decliners, the benchmark's implied-volatility gauge rose, and key commodity and currency contracts moved unevenly. The session saw several individual large movers on both the upside and downside…
A U.S. Court of International Trade judge will meet in a closed-door settlement conference with government attorneys to determine how to refund as much as $175 billion in tariffs the Supreme Court recently invalidated. The meeting centers on creating a practical mechanism for reimbursing more than 300,000 importers, a task the government says may r…
