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Pan-European stock operator Euronext is negotiating the acquisition of the Athens Stock Exchange, in a share transaction worth 399 million euros ($470 million), Reuters reports. Euronext operates markets in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the...

Pan-European stock operator Euronext is negotiating the acquisition of the Athens Stock Exchange, in a share transaction worth 399 million euros ($470 million), Reuters reports. Euronext operates markets in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the...

The world is witnessing an unprecedented scandal at the highest political and economic level, between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. At the center of attention, as he wants, is the US president himself, whose mother claimed, in an interview in 1997,...

At a time of global instability, NATO leaders gathered yesterday at the Hague summit took a historic decision: all member states will allocate a minimum of 5% of GDP for defense and security by 2035, as stated in the final declaration of the NATO...

Over the past five years, the world's top 300 private equity firms have raised $3.3 trillion, up just 0.4% from last year's total.

Bitcoin, the world's most popular cryptocurrency, has seen rapid growth in the last two months, reaching a new all-time high of around $111,950 in May, amid a combination of factors such as the suspension of trade tariffs announced by the...

Despite the essential role that pension systems play in social protection and in strengthening capital markets in the European Union, the European Commission's efforts to support the development of supplementary pensions (those incomes that...

As the world evolves, new industries are emerging as key drivers of future economic growth. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, there are 18 fast-growing areas-including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, biotechnology, and air...

Investments considered ethical or socially responsible, promoted by many European pension funds, could indirectly support serious human rights abuses in Gaza and the West Bank, according to an investigation by the journalistic platform Follow the...

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly becomes part of our daily lives, concerns about its impact are growing, but not everyone sees the same risks, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis.

Even before the massive stock sales that took place on world stock exchanges last Thursday, following US President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day", 2025 was not a good year for US tech giants and their shareholders.

The United States risks running out of cash to pay its obligations by mid-July unless Congress adopts a resolution to raise or suspend the maximum national debt ceiling, according to an analysis published by the Bipartisan Policy Center think...

Ursula von der Leyen took the first step on Wednesday towards mobilizing European citizens' savings from bank deposits to finance European industry and the defense industry. The 800 billion euros needed annually to implement Draghi's plan...

Former Prime Minister Theodor Stolojan claims that the strategy presented by the European Commission is a step in the right direction and that the starting point was Marios Draghi's report on competitiveness and Enrico Letta's report on...

The United States owes foreign investors $8.5 trillion in national debt - nearly a quarter of the total debt, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis that highlights the largest foreign holders of U.S. government securities.

Lin Jian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, expressed China's willingness to work with the European Union to address global challenges, in a swift response to US President Donald Trump's aggressive trade policy in his speech...

Europe has entered a new era of rearmament and is ready to massively increase its defense spending, by 1.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of each member state of the European Union, said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European...

The anticipated agreement between the Ukrainian government and the US administration on the exploitation of the European country's mineral resources at odds with Russia was not signed as expected on February 28, as a White House meeting...

The European banking sector is facing a wave of consolidation, as institutions seek to strengthen their market position, expand their asset base and improve returns, Global Finance Magazine reports. The cited source shows that, with interest...

The strategy of political decision-makers in Brussels regarding the financing of the measures in the Draghi plan, although it also refers to public sources, is based exclusively on private sources, civil society representatives say according to...

Trade with Mexico, China and Canada accounted for about 43% of all US goods imports in 2023 by value, according to a Statista analysis, noting that, according to UN Comtrade data, the United States imported $3.2 trillion in goods and exported $2...

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Landscape Was Shaken This Week When a Chinese Start-up, DeepSeek, Unveiled a New Model in the Field That Seems to Rival the Capabilities of US Giants OpenAI and Google, But Doesn't Have as Powerful Hardware....

The Bank of Russia proposes to increase transparency of public stock offerings, and to make this possible, it is necessary to change the content of information disclosed by issuers and adapt it to the needs of retail investors, whose role has...

The European economy suffers from capital market fragmentation and bureaucracy, which hinders adequate financing for innovation and start-ups, said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, yesterday in her speech at the World...

Donald Trump was inaugurated yesterday for his second term in the White House, following a lavish ceremony that was the most expensive inauguration ceremony of an American president.

Gold has gained about 26% so far this year, on track for its best annual performance since 2010, largely driven by the U.S. central bank's interest rate cut and heightened geopolitical tensions that have driven investors to the traditional...

Trouble never comes alone, not even in climate issues. The ways in which people consume and feed themselves are causing "interconnected" crises that affect biodiversity, climate and health, threatening the survival of essential ecosystems...

The wealth of the world's billionaires has increased in the last ten years, according to data from a study published yesterday by the Swiss banking group UBS AG, according to DPA.

Environmentalists are outraged by the conclusions reached after COP29. The environmental organization Greenpeace criticized the new agreement signed in Baku at the UN Climate Change Conference, saying that negotiators gave in to the interests of...

Cybercriminals are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to amplify their attacks, concluded cybersecurity experts attending the DevCon 2024 event in Bucharest. In the view of Ignat Korchagin, engineering manager (Linux team) at Cloudflare, not...

At a time when our planet is undergoing irreversible transformations, experts warn that it is vital that humanity takes concrete measures to protect biodiversity. Reports from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services...

The BRICS summit that is taking place these days in Kazan, Russia, also has on its agenda the request made by Turkey to acquire the status of a full member of that economic organization, after until now it had observer status. Turkish President...

Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire by 2027, according to a recent report by Informa Connect Academy, cited by visualcapitalist.com. The report shows the projected path for the Tesla CEO and other billionaires to surpass the...

The sovereign investment fund should focus on supporting the Romanian capital, emphasized the MEP and university professor Dr. Gheorghe Piperea.

The US economy is facing an "enormous amount of debt", so the challenge for the Federal Reserve is to keep interest rates high enough to benefit lenders, but not so high as to cause problems debtors, said the famous billionaire investor...

The global revenue of the pharmaceutical industry was about 1.6 trillion dollars, according to data published in the American and European media. This significant growth has been driven by factors such as advances in personalized medicine, cancer...

The pharma industry has been in a real economic and financial boom for 20 years, which is supported by recent technical developments, biotechnological research-innovation and deepening research on DNA and every microcell in the human body. An...

The US has not abandoned any military equipment in the hands of the Taliban during the withdrawal of US military forces from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, said Reserve Admiral John Kirby, national security and communications adviser to...

Donald Trump's possible return to the White House has helped spur a wave of investment in defense technology startups across Europe, eight top industry investors and executives say, according to a Reuters story last week.

The share of financial assets invested by Americans (households and non-profit entities) in listed stocks is approaching record levels, just above the peak recorded in 2021, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis, which points out that...