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New York (AFP) - US consumer pricing and sentiment reports released Friday pointed to lingering questions about affordability as the...

Stocks consolidate as US inflation worries undermine Fed rate hopes

London (AFP) - World stock markets gave a mixed picture Friday, with sentiment underpinned by hopes for sustained US central...

Stocks rise as investors look to more Fed rate cuts

London (AFP) - World stock markets mostly rose Friday as investors speculated that the US central bank will cut rates...

Netflix to buy Warner Bros. in deal of the decade

by Andrew Murphy

December 6, 2025

New York (AFP) - Streaming giant Netflix said Friday it will buy film and television studio Warner Bros. Discovery for...

Softbank’s Son says super AI could make humans like fish, win Nobel Prize

Seoul (AFP) - SoftBank CEO and AI investor Masayoshi Son said Friday that advanced artificial intelligence could surpass humans to...

Mixed day for US equities as Japan’s Nikkei rallies

by Andrew Murphy

New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks finished mixed at the end of a choppy session Thursday as markets digested...

Facebook ‘supreme court’ admits ‘frustrations’ in 5 years of work

by Emma Reilly

Paris (France) (AFP) - An oversight board created by Facebook to review content-moderation decisions trumpeted improved transparency and respect for...

South Africa says wants equal treatment, after US G20 exclusion

by Emma Reilly

Johannesburg (AFP) - South Africa responded Thursday to a US bar on its participation in G20 events under Washington's presidency...

Assumed likelihood of US rate cuts lifts global markets

by Natalie Fisher

London (AFP) - World stock markets mostly rose Thursday after the latest batch of US data reinforced expectations that the...

Stocks rise eyeing series of US rate cuts