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States sue to kill the Paramount-Warner deal

Plus: VW's 100,000 job cuts, Shein's wobbly Hong Kong IPO, and $85 oil

US and Iran trade strikes, oil surges on Hormuz

Markets are pricing a shut Strait of Hormuz. That's the whole ballgame today.

Hormuz tanker strike lifts oil; Japan yields hit 30-year high

Two pressure points threatening the same thing: the cost of everything.

Microsoft kills 4,800 jobs and shrinks Xbox

SK Hynix wants a $29bn US valuation. Saudis are cutting oil prices to discounts.

EasyJet agrees £5.5bn Castlelake takeover

UK's FCA is watching AI like it's losing a foot race. It is.

US jobs wobble. Gold up. Private credit shakes.

Caution is winning. Here is who that hurts and who it doesn't.

Record $2.8tn M&A, Halifax dies, Sony kills discs

Deals are back. Two brands are not.

Q2 closes as best quarter since 2020

Markets shrugged off the tariff shock. Now comes the harder question.

Comcast splits Sky loose. The Fed stays intact.

Also: Strategy blinks on Bitcoin, and Seoul bets $880bn on chips.

Iran ceasefire holds, PBOC blinks, BIS warns on AI

Three signals this Monday that point in opposite directions.

Apple raises Mac and iPad prices by up to 20%

Chip shortages are now a consumer problem. Plus: Dimon, AI in law, and a $250m chip bet.

OpenAI builds its own chip. Nvidia notices.

Also: KNDS IPO, Rheinmetall hit, gold near $4,000, and a $25k electric truck.

Oracle cut 21,000 jobs. AI did it.

Alibaba sues the Pentagon. Oil slides. The City eyes a new PM.

Starmer resigns as UK Prime Minister

Plus: SpaceX sells its first investment-grade bonds, and Taiwan's debt-fuelled rally flashes red.

Iran talks, China rare earths, and sterling near 2026 lows

Three separate pressure points. One common thread: the cost of uncertainty is rising.

Oil's worst week in years. The Hormuz deal is real.

Goldman cuts Brent to $80. Sterling is apparently the most overvalued currency in the G10.

Warsh rocks bond markets: hike bets fully priced in

Half the FOMC wants to raise rates. Trump wants cuts. The bond market has chosen a side.

DOJ calls Musk's gas turbines a national security asset

Also: oil glut incoming, SpaceX goes public, and the IMF warns AI is the new globalisation.

The dollar is back, and the Fed isn't done

US exceptionalism trade returns. China's PBOC picks a new weapon. AI inequality lands at the IMF.

Iran deal sends oil down 11%, markets up

Pentagon missiles, Singapore gold clearing, and Korea's JoongAng hits the wall.

CLSA brand dies after 40 years as China takes control

Plus: Knicks make Finals history, China's coal pivot, and Healey quits over defence cuts.

SK Hynix ETFs now drive stock moves as Ryanair hits CMA probe

AI memory mania meets parental seating fury. Plus Travelodge cut deeper into junk.

SpaceX targets $75bn in world's largest IPO

Meanwhile, VodafoneThree bids for TalkTalk and gold tumbles on Iran strikes.

Israel-Iran halt sends oil down, Pentagon targets China's AI giants

Plus OpenAI files confidentially and Blackstone eyes $2bn fund stake sale.