The European Central Bank president told finance ministers and central bankers gathered in Bangkok that sound public finances are an anchor for stability, and that any energy relief should be short-lived and narrowly aimed, as the ECB keeps a measured line against rising inflation.
Trudy intensified into a Category 3 hurricane overnight and is forecast to track close to the coasts of Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco this weekend, putting a region hit by two of the Pacific's most violent storms in the past decade back on red alert.
US stock indexes closed higher Thursday after a two-day slide in technology shares, even as hot inflation data and doubts about debt-financed data centers kept chipmakers under pressure.
The Group of Seven has earmarked €2.5 billion to ship fertilizer and shore up food supplies in vulnerable countries, mostly in Africa, as the Gulf conflict continues to disrupt a trade route that carries a large share of the world's nitrogen fertilizer.
The IMF says Saudi Arabia is riding out the Iran war in better shape than most of the Gulf, crediting the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea and the kingdom's reserves. It still expects Saudi output to fall this year before recovering in 2027.
A Homeland Security order requires civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek's AI tools and stop buying them, warning that sensitive data could reach the Chinese government. The move extends Washington's technology standoff with Beijing to the government's own systems.
Eight months into the conflict, higher energy prices are filtering into gasoline, airfares and groceries at different speeds, and a sharp September rise in consumer prices has landed weeks before the midterm elections.
A group of nine people dismissed from the FBI in February, all of whom had been assigned to the Plasmic Echo inquiry into classified records kept at Mar-a-Lago, is asking a Washington federal court to order their reinstatement. Their complaint frames the firings as punishment for the assignment itself and says the abrupt exits left live counterintelligence work unattended.
Salesforce has agreed to buy New York-based Braze in an all-cash deal valued at about $5.7 billion, extending a run of acquisitions aimed at giving its marketing software faster, AI-driven ways to reach consumers.
Micron is paying to expand Indium Corporation's refinery in Rome, New York, reviving domestic processing of minerals used in memory chips and reducing reliance on refining concentrated overseas.
Israel's Elbit Systems has secured a three-year contract to supply PULS launchers and medium-range precision rockets to an unnamed European government, extending a run of rocket artillery orders from a continent rebuilding its land forces.
KKR has agreed to sell Infinity Transportation, a railcar lessor it has owned for about five years, to Ares Management, moving one of North America's largest railcar fleets from one private investment firm to another.
The automated broker reported higher third-quarter profit on swelling customer balances and raised its quarterly payout, even as its clients traded fewer stocks than a year earlier.
Nvidia said its researchers used Europe's first exascale supercomputer to model a fault-tolerant quantum processor in fuller detail than any prior simulation, giving chip designers a way to test error-correction schemes before building hardware.
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is making available computer codes that predict how loud an aircraft engine will be, letting designers weigh quieter propulsion concepts before any hardware is built.
The federal government ended fiscal 2026 with its third-largest shortfall on record, as record interest payments, tariff refunds and higher spending outran a rise in tax receipts, complicating the Trump administration's cost-cutting agenda.
A sharper-than-forecast rise in September consumer prices pushed Wall Street to its worst session in months and raised the odds of another Federal Reserve rate increase, with the selling set to spread to Asia.
A surge in fuel costs drove U.S. producer prices sharply higher in September, lifting the annual rate to a level not seen in almost four years and adding to pressure on the Federal Reserve before its next meeting.
Researchers in Boston and France have developed E(3)-Pose, a deep learning model that reads a fetus's head position before each MRI slice so the scanner can adjust in real time. Clearer fetal brain images could mean fewer exams have to be redone because the fetus moved.
Researchers have identified a previously unknown growth response, which they call saprotropism, in which roots sense the acidity produced by microbes breaking down dead plant tissue and steer away from it, a finding with implications for how farmers handle crop residues.
Two spacewalks set for Oct. 29 and Nov. 5 are to add the last two roll-out solar arrays to the International Space Station, wrapping up a power upgrade that began in 2021 and giving the outpost added capacity for its remaining years in orbit and its eventual controlled deorbit.
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