Asian stock markets started Tuesday’s session mostly on the front foot, with Japanese equities notably rising as investors appeared to shrug off a weekend election setback for the country’s ruling coalition.The positive mood was also supported by record highs on Wall Street, though a long winning streak for Singapore’s benchmark…

The bruising electoral defeat suffered by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition has plunged the country into a state of political uncertainty, creating a significant new dilemma for the Bank of Japan (BOJ). The central bank now finds itself in a double bind, facing the prospect of increased government…

European stock markets are set for a lower open on Tuesday, with investors remaining on edge as the deadline for a potential 30% US tariff on European Union goods draws closer. While corporate news, including a major investment in the UK’s new Sizewell C nuclear project, provided some individual stock…

From the United Kingdom to the United Arab Emirates, and from India to the United States, governments are rapidly turning to artificial intelligence to modernise public service delivery.OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has emerged as a central player in this global trend. With new strategic partnerships, governments are using generative…

More than a decade after Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) troubled $11 billion acquisition of Autonomy, a London judge has ruled the company lost around £730 million in the deal.The court found that financial misstatements at Autonomy inflated the firm’s value ahead of the 2011 sale.The decision marks a major development…

The European Central Bank’s (ECB) bank lending survey reveals that elevated global uncertainty has had no material impact on loan demand or credit standards in the second quarter of the year, according to ING Group. This suggests that the outlook for investment is not currently deteriorating, although it continues to reflect…

For the past few years, we’ve been told that artificial intelligence would either save the world or destroy it. The AI economy would wipe out jobs, widen inequality, and destabilise entire industries. Others painted it as a productivity miracle waiting to happen.But what if both sides missed the mark? Based…