United States – Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s $40.4 billion personal equity guarantee for his son David’s bid to merge Paramount’s Skydance with Warner Bros. Discovery is under acute pressure as regulators and markets turn against the proposed $110 billion deal. A coalition of 12 U.S. state attorneys general has filed...
A coalition of U.S. small business owners and commercial import associations has filed multiple federal lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s new sweeping tariff framework. The complaints, lodged in several federal district courts, contest broad-based import duties applied to merchandise from dozens of trading partners. Plaintiffs argue that the rapidly implemented...
Oklahoma City, USA – The Oklahoma City Thunder have reportedly tendered a two-year, $12 million offer sheet to Denver Nuggets restricted free agent Spencer Jones, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania on Saturday. The contract is described as fully guaranteed, giving Jones short-term security while providing the Thunder with a defined...
United States – Surging demand for high-protein foods is fundamentally reshaping the U.S. dairy industry, as prices for high-grade whey protein concentrate and isolate have risen by as much as 250%. Fitness culture, the popularity of high-protein diets, and the spread of GLP-1 weight-loss medications have intensified consumer demand for...
UNITED STATES – Consumers across the country are reshaping their grocery shopping routines as they face the biggest jump in food prices in about 50 years. Many shoppers now plan their trips around discounts, checking supermarket apps, scanning weekly circulars and clipping coupons before they leave home and again once...
South Korea – Nvidia and South Korea’s SK Group, which includes SK Hynix and SK Telecom, have signed a strategic artificial intelligence infrastructure partnership worth more than $500 billion, marking one of the largest hardware commitments in semiconductor history. The long-term agreement focuses on securing and co-developing next-generation high-bandwidth memory...
Kuwait has agreed a $16 billion, 20.5-year lease-and-leaseback transaction for its national crude oil pipeline network with a consortium led by U.S. private equity firms Blackstone and KKR, alongside Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management. The deal, known as Project Peregrine, grants the investor group a 49% equity stake in a joint...
United States–based smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm has notified customers that it will impose double‑digit price increases on its products, citing accelerating supplier and supply chain costs. In a formal letter circulated to clients, the company said the higher prices will apply to all products shipped from September 1. Qualcomm explained it...
The United States announced it will immediately begin a formal Section 301 trade investigation into the European Union after the European Commission imposed a major antitrust fine on Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. On Thursday, regulators in Brussels concluded a lengthy competition probe, ruling that Google abused its market...
United States-based SLB, formerly known as Schlumberger, reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of 55 cents a share on revenue of $8.97 billion, beating Wall Street forecasts and lifting its stock about 10% for its strongest one-day gain in six months. Chief Executive Olivier Le Peuch said that increased offshore activity in...
