Rio Tinto and Glencore held talks last year about combining part or all of their businesses, in an indication of how the push by mining companies to secure metals needed for the energy transition has ...

Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, launched his campaign to become Canada’s prime minister by touting his financial expertise in a country where voters remain angry over outgoing ...

Scott Bessent also tells US senators in heated confirmation hearing that he backs tougher sanctions on Russian oil ...

Also in today’s newsletter, US blacklists China’s answer to OpenAI, and Israeli cabinet to discuss approval of Gaza ceasefire ...

This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘Will US inflation ever go below 3%?’ ...

Reports of the demise of US inflation have been greatly exaggerated. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Aiden Reiter ...

American Express will pay about $230mn to resolve a US federal investigation into allegations that it deceptively marketed ...

Most of the world’s more than 11,000 registered data centres are not yet involved in any kind of AI-related activity. Combined, their consumption of electricity (excluding cryptocurrencies) is about 1 ...

Doug Burgum, a billionaire businessman and former governor of North Dakota, told senators at his confirmation hearing on Thursday that the US had an “electricity crisis” due to weaknesses in the ...

Nate Anderson, founder of the activist short seller Hindenberg Research, said yesterday he was closing the firm. Its hit list includes Adani, Nikola, CloverHealth, DraftKings, Block, Icahn Enterprises ...

Waymo’s acceleration was all the more striking in a year that saw General Motors shut its Cruise robotaxi unit after pouring ...

The star reunites with Robert Zemeckis and Robin Wright but this epoch-spanning saga of a living room is less fleet-footed ...