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The Labour and Conservative parties are making a final push on key issues — border security and rail fares — as the election campaign nears the home stretch. Brexit concerns are also bubbling again.

Tokyo’s Topix dropped 2.5% at the open, taking the benchmark index down more than 30% for the year. The move followed S&P 500 index's collapse of 12 per cent on Monday, marking the biggest one-day fall since the crash of October 1987.

With its candidate favourite to win, Law and Justice party was insisting poll should go ahead on May 10

ECJ issues rare warning over EU legal order after German judges question its superiority

Stimulant given as ‘likely’ reason for lower infections but authorities stress health risks

US-run trial of Gilead coronavirus therapy demonstrates ‘significant positive effect’

California utility discloses $5bn pre-tax charge tied to claims

Policy reversal follows Cameron vow to rid UK of ‘unsightly’ structures

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Country’s finance minister seeks to reassure investors on impact of Covid-19

Airline’s biggest shareholder calls for CFO’s exit over failure to scrap £4.5bn Airbus order 

European aerospace group confirms it will slash output of popular A320 single-aisle jet

‘We will be a smaller company for a while,’ says chief David Calhoun

US benchmark S&P 500 can drop a maximum 7 per cent before first protection kicks in

Frantic trading across financial markets pushes revenues up at the exchange and financial data group

Charity Commission intervened over £350,000 of payments to Duke of York’s private secretary

Move illustrates how coronavirus impact is rippling through manufacturing supply chains

Prices rebound from March lows after miner Kazatomprom slashes production

US oil producer pledges to reduce output by more than a third in June

Biggest US oil company takes $2.9bn charge to account for crude’s plunge

Shares rally this week on hopes that spread of pandemic may be easing

Mortgage products tracking base rate vanish as ‘the numbers no longer stack up’ 

Coronavirus lockdown hits lenders’ ability to offer mortgages and evaluate properties

My love affair with the Tesla chief can’t survive the pandemic

Sportswear maker apologises but warns it cannot bear virus lockdown for long   

Billionaire investor hits winning bets in global macro after closing to external money

‘We are ready to go further,’ says French minister after issuing temporary prohibitions

FTSE 250 housebuilder also takes charge for fire safety review after Grenfell tragedy

Strategists expect concerns about eurozone stability to dent the currency

IEA expects global consumption will decline 8% this year in largest drop since second world war

More than £1bn ploughed into equity vehicles after decisive Conservative victory

Withdrawal fees soar to £104m and banks save £120m in ATM shake-up

Today Microsoft reported its third-quarter, fiscal 2020 quarter earnings, the period of time corresponding to Q1 2020 on the regular calendar. The technology giant generated $35 billion in revenue, up 15% from the year-ago period. That top line led to $13 billion in operating income (+25% YoY), and $10.8 billion in net income (+22% YoY). […]

Renewed friction between Washington and Beijing adds to coronavirus concerns

Profit forecasts ditched as coronavirus disrupts operations

Investors anticipate boost in energy demand as economies start to reopen

Tinder will add a video dating feature in the second quarter of this year, parent company Match announced on Tuesday as part of its Q1 2020 earnings report. The company also detailed the coronavirus impact, which slowed Tinder user growth in the quarter, as social distancing requirements and government lockdowns went into effect. Match didn’t […]

Post-lockdown, technology could help us contain Covid-19. But why stop there?

Commercial real estate owners, brokers and landlords have collectively made many hundreds of billions of dollars a year in recent years as the economy zipped along. Now, they’re getting clobbered by the pandemic-fueled economic crisis. Worse, their industry may be forever changed by it. To state the obvious, extracting rent from nearly anyone right now […]

The UK is entering a new world, going its own way while superpowers dominate

Amazon is in hot water with a powerful congressional committee interested in the company’s potentially anticompetitive business practices. In a bipartisan letter sent Friday to Jeff Bezos, the House Judiciary committee demanded that the Amazon CEO explain discrepancies between his own prior statements and recent reporting from The Wall Street Journal. Specifically, the letter addressed […]

Pillar of country’s economy resumes operations despite concerns over workers’ health

Charles Li will not seek reappointment when contract expires in October 2021

US asset manager apologises following comments by company’s president over debt rules

One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities. Hoodline, a San Francisco-based startup, is trying to tackle this with a unique focus on news about neighborhood retail corridors. The startup has built up a network of news on about two-dozen neighborhoods across San Francisco as a sort of Trojan horse into a larger platform of hyperlocal listings and markets.

US carmaker raises spending on EV and autonomous vehicles to $20bn by 2025

FTSE 100 plumbing supplier runs into opposition from shareholders over switch to US

Commercial aviation isn’t typically the place to look if you’re after carbon-light initiatives. Jet fuel isn’t generally very green, and airplanes burn a lot of it when traversing the skies. But supersonic flight startup Boom wants to change the perception of commercial aviation as an emissions-costly prospect, starting with their testing development program for the […]