(RTTNews) – European stocks were mostly higher on Thursday as bond market worries subsided, and investors awaited Eurozone retail sales data as well as debt auctions in France and the United Kingdom for direction.

The Australian sharemarket has clawed back some of Wednesday’s heavy losses after Wall Street steadied overnight. 

China has slapped American fibre-optic firms with anti-dumping tariffs – a move announced hours after the US Treasury imposed sanctions on a Guangzhou-based chemical firm, over fentanyl claims.
The duties, ranging from 33.3 to 78.2 per cent, went into immediate effect and are to remain in place until April 2028, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday in an online statement.
Specifically, OFS Fitel faces a 33.3 per cent tariff, Corning a 37.9 per cent levy, and Draka Communications Americas,…

A federal jury ruled Google must pay $425 million for invading users’ privacy by continuing to collect data for millions of users who had switched off a tracking feature in their Google accounts.

The number of new condo launches in the second quarter of 2025 dropped to the lowest level in 15 years, reflecting developers’ caution about fresh investments amid miserable market conditions pressured by multiple factors.

Controversial efforts to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in cattle are likely to fail unless there’s greater urgency and funding from the government, scientists have warned.

Rachel Reeves’ grip on her position as Chancellor of the Exchequer looks ever more tenuous thanks to the Prime Minister’s cackhanded economic reshuffle.

“I no longer want a life with a wife who is disabled”.

Mobile phones across the UK will be sent an emergency alert as the government tests the system nationwide.