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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    European banks
    European banks promise €120bn of shareholder returns on interest rate gains

    Returns via buybacks and dividends higher than any year since before the financial crisis

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    European Central Bank
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Israel-Hamas war boosts German investor interest in defence sector, says Renk chief

    Capital markets adjusting to ‘new world order, not just a single event of Russian aggression against Ukraine’

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    Staff check a Marder tank gear transmission in Renk’s factory in Augsburg, Germany in May 2023
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Football
    European football needs innovation and drama, says Real Madrid and FC Barcelona investor

    Alan Waxman, head of US investment group Sixth Street, foresees ‘more structural change’ in sport to excite fans and attract new audiences

    Vitor Roque of FC Barcelona is challenged by Diego Rico of Getafe CF during a La Liga match on Saturday in Barcelona
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Jim Ratcliffe
    Jim Ratcliffe warns EU bureaucracy will drive away industry’s investments

    Petrochemicals billionaire says he would have passed on $4bn Belgium investment if he had known of regulatory hurdles

    Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, chairman and founder of Ineos Group Holdings
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Germany’s steelmakers plan to go green

    Europe’s biggest producer is moving away from carbon-intensive blast furnaces and towards hydrogen-powered processing

    An employee in fireproof protective clothing is silhouetted against the fire of the blast furnace
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    News in-depthFood & Beverage
    How the 92-year-old snackmaker behind Biscoff captivated Gen Z

    Belgian company Lotus Bakeries has profited as social media fuels appetite for its spreads and biscuits

    Lotus Biscoff logo
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    European equities
    Europe’s ‘Granolas’ fuel record stock market surge

    Group of 11 pharma, tech and luxury shares echoes US dominance of ‘Magnificent Seven’

    A montage showing a Wegovy injection dose, the ASML logo and luxury products, including nail polish and a handbag, against two chart lines
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    CMA CGM SA
    Red Sea crisis causes surge in container ship costs, warns CMA CGM

    French group suffers Q4 losses as weak demand and lower freight rates last year bite

    A CMA CGM container vessel in South Africa
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    LexBe Semiconductor Industries NV
    Meet Besi — the European AI champion riding Nvidia’s coattails Premium content

    The Netherlands-based assembly equipment maker has all the characteristics that growth investors adore

    Demonstration video at BE Semiconductor’s booth at the Semicon Taiwan exhibition show in Taipei, Taiwan in September 2022
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Stellantis
    Stellantis gives 56% pay rise to chief Carlos Tavares

    Remuneration of €36.5mn in 2023 makes him one of the auto industry’s highest paid bosses

    Carlos Tavares smiles and waves to the camera as he gets into a vehicle
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    BASF SE
    BASF extends cost cuts by €1bn as demand for chemicals falls

    Chemicals maker intensifies downsizing at home site as it battles high energy prices and sinking demand

    The BASF plant at Ludwigshafen
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Abu Dhabi National Oil Co
    Adnoc’s $30bn chemicals deal with Austria’s OMV stalls

    Talks cool to allow both sides to navigate differences over merger of cross-held Borealis and Borouge arms

    An OMV platform in the Black Sea
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    LexElectric vehicles
    Why an ‘Airbus of autos’ would not halt Europe’s EV collision Premium content

    It isn’t hard to see why carmakers might be keen to collaborate

    A selection of electric vehicles on a background featuring electric car batteries
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depthEU defence
    The companies benefiting from Europe’s defence revival

    Weapons makers are boosting production after decades of under-investment

    Graph of missiles, shells and aircraft
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Booking Holdings
    Booking faces almost €500mn fine in Spain over competition practices

    Regulators seek to clamp down on world’s biggest online travel group as part of efforts to control tech dominance

    Tourists on Las Ramblas, Barcelona
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    LVMH
    LVMH goes to Hollywood to get brands on screen

    Luxury group launches venture for product placement and co-developing and co-financing own entertainment projects

    Antoine Arnault
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Russian business & finance
    UK imposes sanctions on Dutch oil trader over Russia links

    Treasury alleges Niels Troost benefited from ‘supporting the government of Russia’ via Paramount SA

    Niels Troost
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    EU energy
    EU quartet warns German gas transit costs will fuel need for Russian imports

    Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia say Berlin levy could increase ‘geopolitical dependency’ on Moscow

    Uniper natural gas storage facility in Germany
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Glencore
    Glencore slashes dividend in effort to shrink debt

    Earnings at mining and trading group halve as commodity prices soften

    The logo of commodities trader Glencore
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    International Airlines Group
    IAG takeover of Air Europa faces fresh challenges in Brussels

    European Commission prepares to voice competition objections to Iberia owner’s purchase of Spanish rival

    An Air Europa plane at the tarmac
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    AXA SA
    Axa extends focus on smaller businesses to increase sales

    French insurer sets out three-year strategy and plans to lift payouts to shareholders

    Axa logo
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Nestlé S.A.
    Nestlé sales miss forecasts as higher prices hit demand

    World’s largest food company blames continued squeeze on household budgets

    Nestlé headquarters in Switzerland
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Danone SA
    Danone lifts dividend as turnaround starts to pay off

    French food group’s sales return to higher volume in fourth quarter

    Danone products on a shelf in a shop
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Executive Pay
    LSE Group turns to US data rivals to benchmark CEO’s pay rise

    LSEG is consulting on raising David Schwimmer’s pay to about £11mn from £6.25mn

    David Schwimmer
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Mondelez International Inc
    Mondelez chief says investors do not ‘morally care’ if groups stay in Russia

    Dirk Van de Put says confectionery group has faced no pressure to leave country completely

    Mondelez Milka bars
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