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Tata Sons chairman won't seek a third termN Chandrasekaran has told the board he will not pursue reappointment as Tata Sons chairman when his term ends in February 2027, ending a months-long deadlock in which four of six directors backed a…Home Depot CEO takes medical leaveHome Depot hasn't named an interim successor publicly, leaving investors to parse the retailer's leadership bench just as the housing-linked spending outlook stays fragile. The stock's reaction so …A US judge let Adani's case go, then torched the processJudge Nicholas Garaufis dismissed three of five counts against Gautam Adani but called the Justice Department's handling of it highly unusual and singled out Trent McCotter, a senior political appo…Phia's founders reportedly knew about the fake sales credit for monthsBloomberg reports Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed for the product features behind Phia's affiliate-attribution problem and knew about the practice since December, seven months before it becam…John Lewis loses its second boss in three yearsPeter Ruis is stepping down as managing director less than three years into the job, a tenure that included the department store's return to profit and a series of format experiments in beauty and …Thames Water paid its CFO £1m while asking lenders to keep it aliveChairman Sir Adrian Montague disclosed in a letter to MPs that finance chief Steve Buck received a £1 million signing-on fee last month, funded from emergency lender money, more than a year after h…ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance to retire, CFO takes overLance leaves after a decade running one of the largest independent US oil producers, handing the reins to his finance chief just as the sector rides a strong run on Middle East supply risk pricing.Anwar's daughter steps back from party leadershipNurul Izzah Anwar takes leave from her role amid political setbacks for Malaysia's ruling coalition, adding pressure on her father's government.X's product chief lasted one year. That's the actual newsNikita Bier joining X's product team in 2025 was framed as a coup, the app-building wunderkind behind Gas and tbh finally getting a platform with real scale. His exit after twelve months fits a pat…Starboard takes a bite of Shake ShackJeff Smith doesn't buy restaurant stocks for the fries, he buys them because activist playbooks work reliably on chains with real estate optionality and undisciplined capital allocation. Starboard …McDonald's swaps US boss after its slowest growth in a yearMcDonald's just replaced the head of its largest and most profitable market, which only happens when the board has stopped believing the strategy will recover on its own. US same-store sales growth…Mamdani keeps New York's business establishment at arm's lengthThe mayor is declining the usual courtship rituals with corporate leaders, a break from City Hall precedent that shows how he intends to govern relative to Wall Street's expectations.Aston Martin creditors threaten legal action over branding rights saleCreditors are pushing back on a plan to sell off Aston Martin branding rights, a sign the carmaker's balance sheet repair is running into resistance from the people it owes money to, not just the m…Thames Water's boss says leakage targets are fantasyA Thames Water chief executive publicly calling Ofwat's leakage targets unrealistic is a negotiating opener ahead of the next price review, not a technical admission of defeat. The utility is tryin…Musk just paid to make the advertiser boycott lawsuit disappearElon Musk settling with the advertising industry group he sued for orchestrating an X boycott closes one of the messier legal threads from Twitter's collapse in ad revenue after the 2022 takeover. …eBay pays $55.7m for sending cockroaches to its criticsThis is the final bill for one of the strangest corporate scandals of the last decade. EBay and several former executives will pay $55.7 million to settle claims they orchestrated a harassment camp…Ex-Goldman banker accused of paying a 'holy rain' of bribesUS prosecutors say a former Goldman Sachs banker funnelled what they've termed a 'holy rain' of bribes, the latest thread pulled from the 1MDB scandal that's already cost Goldman $2.9 billion in fi…Cracker Barrel's CEO didn't survive her own rebrandJulie Masino is stepping down roughly a year after the logo redesign that triggered a customer revolt loud enough to force the company back to its original branding within weeks. The reversal didn'…IBM's CEO admits the culture was too slow, right as Macquarie hands the reins to a fresh faceIBM's chief executive conceding publicly that company culture was too slow to change is a rare admission from a firm that's spent a decade insisting its transformation was on track. Macquarie, mean…Thames Water's creditors offer Labour a golden share to dodge the nationalisation billHanding the government a golden share costs lenders almost nothing and buys them the one thing they actually want: keeping £15 billion of debt off the taxpayer's balance sheet while retaining econo…FTSE bosses now earn 130 times the average workerThat ratio has widened even as real wage growth for most UK workers stays flat, keeping pay disclosure rules squarely in the FCA and government's sights for the next reporting season.PwC fined £3m again over Babcock audit failuresA second fine on the same audit relationship suggests the Financial Reporting Council doesn't think the first one changed PwC's behaviour. This £3m penalty relates to further failings in PwC's audi…Li Ka-shing's cash-out is Hong Kong's biggest succession story in a decadeThe nonagenarian tycoon monetising chunks of his empire isn't retirement planning, it's a deliberate handover mechanism designed to give his successors a cleaner balance sheet rather than a sprawli…Buffett cuts Gates Foundation from his $6bn stock giveawayRedirecting Berkshire shares away from the Gates Foundation, after years of it being his largest philanthropic partner, signals a real shift in Buffett's giving strategy as he approaches the final …Blackstone's QTS pulled the plug on a Virginia data centre. Community opposition just beat a multi-billion dollar infrastructure plan.Blackstone's QTS Data Centers has abandoned a planned facility in Virginia after sustained local opposition, and the lesson for data centre developers is not about public relations: it is about sit…A £600,000 fine for Forvis Mazars is a number so small it barely functions as a deterrentThe Financial Reporting Council has fined Forvis Mazars £600,000 for what it described as pervasive audit failings, and the word pervasive is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Audit firm fines …Dimon reshuffles the JPMorgan succession deck, againJamie Dimon has upended JPMorgan's succession race for at least the second time in two years, with internal candidates repositioned and timelines left deliberately unclear. This is a well-worn patt…Vale's shareholder vote on its chairman is a live test of activist governance in Brazil's resource sectorVale shareholders are heading to a vote to decide whether to remove the company's board chair after the board rejected an activist push to oust him, creating a rare confrontation between institutio…Pentwater is about to collect $650 million from Avis after a short squeeze. The hedge fund playbook just got a data point.Pentwater Capital is set to receive a $650 million payout from Avis Budget Group following a short squeeze that caught the market on the wrong side of a heavily shorted stock. The size of the payou…BHP takes a $2.3bn writedown on Jansen potash. The mine keeps getting more expensive.BHP's Jansen potash project is becoming the mining industry's most expensive lesson in greenfield cost discipline. The company has flagged a $2.3 billion impairment and simultaneously disclosed tha…SpaceX's $75bn IPO makes Musk the world's first trillionaire and hands him an acquisition war chestSpaceX opened on Nasdaq at $150 per share, roughly 11% above its IPO price, and closed day one near $161, generating approximately $75 billion in proceeds and pushing Musk's net worth past the tril…Elon Musk's Wall Street consolidation play is the business story hiding behind the headlinesThe emerging read on Musk's corporate strategy is not the personality spectacle but the financial architecture: using Tesla's balance sheet, xAI's compute narrative, and X's data assets as interlin…Kia Oval Test generates £80m for UK economyThe England-Zimbabwe Test match at the Kia Oval is estimated to contribute £80 million to the UK economy this week, a number that sits awkwardly alongside every conversation about whether Test cric…Moody's cuts Travelodge deeper into junk as UK budget hotels struggleMoody's has downgraded Travelodge deeper into speculative grade territory, citing weaker operating performance and deteriorating leverage that leaves the UK budget hotel chain with limited headroom…KMPG scraps summer Friday perk as Big Four tighten beltsKMPG UK has scrapped its summer early-finish policy that let nearly 17,000 staff leave 2.5 hours early on Fridays, citing "market conditions and business needs" in a signal that the Big Four are pr…Corporate Japan borrows again as deals pressure ratingsJapanese companies are abandoning their decades-long deleveraging mindset to fund aggressive M&A and higher shareholder returns, spooking credit rating agencies. The shift marks a reversal from the…Insurance fraud surgeAviva detected £233 million worth of bogus insurance claims in 2025.Broadcom loses $300bn as AI guidance disappointsThe semiconductor giant's shares fell 15 percent in after-hours trading despite reporting 48 percent revenue growth and AI chip revenue that more than doubled to $10.8 billion. The sell-off came af…Ousted BP chair clashed with company secretary over spendingAlbert Manifold's eight-month tenure as BP chair ended after clashing with company secretary Ben Mathews over private jets, limousines and board travel costs. The former CRH CEO pushed for tighter …Alibaba files conflict minerals disclosureAlibaba reported no indication that minerals in its servers and networking equipment financed armed groups, despite sourcing from the Democratic Republic of Congo region.