Steel worker at the blast furnace tap of the at the Salzgitter AG steelworks on March 02, 2020 in Salzgitter, Germany. Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images The European Union’s decision to hike steel tariffs and sharply cut import quotas has provoked widespread concern in the U.K., as well as rumblings of…
In this photo illustration, gold coins are displayed at Witter Coins on Oct. 7, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images J.P Morgan famously said in his 1912 congressional testimony that “Gold is money, everything is credit.” It seems unsurprising then that many investors seem to be fleeing from credit and are…
Commuters on London Bridge. Shaun Curry | Afp | Getty Images This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The dispatch Despite the de-equitisation of the last decade, the U.K. stock market still offers plenty of choice for would-be investors in certain sectors, among them staffing,…
In an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discussed his company’s new deal with OpenAI, saying it’s the first “direct partnership” with the ChatGPT maker. “This is a partnership that, for the first time, OpenAI is going to buy directly from us,” Huang said. “Usually…a cloud service provider buys from us, and…
In this photo illustration, a one-ounce gold bar, a gold nugget, and gold coins are displayed at Witter Coins on Oct. 7, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images J.P Morgan famously said in his 1912 congressional testimony that “Gold is money, everything is credit.” It seems unsurprising then that many investors…
Mergers-and-acquisitions activity globally is roaring back to life, with several megadeals in the third quarter building on momentum from earlier this year. When Donald Trump returned to the White House, markets expected a deregulatory wave and tax-friendly environment to spark a dealmaking surge. However, recession fears, geopolitical flashpoints and tariffs concerns kept boardrooms a bit…
Lorado | E+ | Getty Images September, a key month for shipping ahead of the holiday season, is usually a boom one inside the freight business and supply chain, with products moving from warehouses to stores or consumers. Not this year. The latest Logistics Managers’ Index, which tracks inventory levels, warehouse costs, transportation capacity, and…
Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo said that valuations for artificial intelligence companies are “at a bubble,” comparing it to the dotcom era. But one key difference in the market now, he said, is that large companies with “healthy balance sheets” are financing AI businesses. Bravo’s private equity firm boasts more than $181 billion in assets…
Photos of (LtoR) British physicist John Clarke at the University of California, USA, French physicist Michel H Devoret (University of California and Yale) and US physicist John M Martinis (University of California) are seen on a screen during a press conference on the awarding of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish…
A cargo ship sits outside of the Port of Elizabeth marine terminal seen from Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S., April 9 2025. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters The World Trade Organization on Tuesday hiked its forecast for global trade growth in 2025 but warned that the outlook for 2026 had deteriorated. In its latest “Global Trade Outlook…
