Peabody Energy (US:BTU) has abandoned its $3.8bn (£2.8bn) acquisition of Anglo American’s (AAL) coal assets in Australia, a move which will send the two miners into a potentially lengthy arbitration ...

Rachel Reeves boasted that the figures “beat expectations”, while the Conservative shadow chancellor saw them as evidence of the chancellor’s “economic vandalism”. You might expect this from ...

This decision went terribly. Few wanted to wear heavy headsets, and when that became obvious, and TikTok started to threaten Meta’s social media business, its shares crashed. Zuckerberg then decided ...

BHP’s full-year profits slid on weaker iron ore and coal prices, but the world’s largest miner’s shift into copper kept it in line with forecasts.

Markets are catching up with our way of thinking when it comes to interest rates, with expectations for rate cuts starting to fall and yields rising in the US and the UK. The Ukraine-Russia-Europe-US ...

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Traders are being pulled in different directions as we start the week, leading to a fairly muddled outcome for European bourses. The FTSE 100 is slightly in the red as miners give up some of Friday’s ...

We all know the benefits of a diversified portfolio – but constructing one is easier said than done. Take the MSCI World Index; it has 1,300 constituents, but a handful of US companies (no prizes for ...

Technology group BATM Advanced Communications (BVC:14.25p) continues to make progress with exiting non-core activities in line with its strategy to prioritise the group’s focus on cyber security, ...

Diversified real estate investment trust (Reit) Landsec (LAND) has sold the Ministry of Justice headquarters for £245mn to Arora Group.

Our reader has substantial savings but wonders if focusing on income is holding him back. Dave Baxter finds out ...

So far this year, investment in artificial intelligence (AI) data centres has contributed more to US economic growth than all consumer spending combined. Even if there is still some scepticism about ...