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The tech rout was sparked by disappointing quarterly results from Intel and Amazon released late on Thursday. Chip stocks veered sharply lower, dragging the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index to a monthly loss. All…
In total, the decline has knocked nearly $1tn in value off the tech-heavy Nasdaq exchange in one week and erased about $2tn in a month. The S&P 500, the index of the 500 most valuable companies in the US, fell by more…
The 57-year old is the first Black person to oversee the Square Mile's governing body in its more than 900-year history. The City of London Corporation is an administrative body with responsibility for London's central…
Experts, such as TRM Labs, quickly attributed the extraordinary $6.3bn (£4.7bn) Binance cryptocurrency theft to TraderTraitor, an elite North Korean hacking unit that has also been known as the Lazarus Group. Though the…
The energy company hailed a "banner quarter" on Friday, with its underlying replacement cost profit – a key measure of its income – almost quadrupling in the three months to the end of September, from $2.2bn in the…
Binance said it would cover all customer losses as it froze $3bn of the affected assets. Analysts said the exchange had been subjected to an unprecedented attack with "never-seen-before" laundering patterns as the…
With every product in the shop sold at £1, and the price in its name, its proposition to shoppers was the clearest of any UK high street chain. Now the UK's first and biggest nationwide single-price retailer could…
But a City AM analysis has found homes worth millions are in line for a handout, while others in poorer areas will get nothing. John Healey’s maiden fiscal event was nothing if not targeted. Painful tax rises – be they…
In a statement on Friday, Shaw said it had been a "privilege" to lead the company but that it was the "right time" to leave her post. Shaw has faced criticism in recent years, including for taking £1.9m in undisclosed…
They are a comprehensive dataset covering the UK's trade in goods at country and product level. They provide both aggregated and detailed data for over 9,000 commodities and more than 200 partner countries. These…