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Heavy AI Investment Tests Investor Confidence as Microsoft Faces the Cost Curve

Microsoft’s latest earnings cycle has exposed a growing tension at the heart of the artificial-intelligence boom: the gap between unprecedented capital spending and the pace at which that spending converts into visible revenue growth. While the company continues to position itself as a long-term...

Automation-Driven Restructuring Marks Nike’s Shift Toward Leaner Growth

Nike’s decision to eliminate 775 jobs in the United States reflects a deliberate recalibration of how the company intends to operate in a slower, more competitive global sportswear market. Rather than treating the layoffs as a one-off response to weak sales, the move signals a deeper strategic...

U.S. Consumer Fatigue Weighs on Procter & Gamble as Domestic Growth Falters

Procter & Gamble’s latest quarterly performance underscores how shifts in U.S. consumer behavior can ripple through even the most resilient global companies. While the consumer goods giant continues to demonstrate pricing power and strength in premium categories, slower growth in its largest...

Streaming’s Strategic Pivot: How Netflix Is Rewriting Its Playbook to Justify a Warner Bros Bet

Netflix’s defence of its bid for Warner Bros Discovery has become a proxy for a much larger strategic debate unfolding inside the global media industry. The sharp drop in the company’s share price following an otherwise solid earnings report underscored investor unease, but the reasoning Netflix’s...

Heritage Meets Youth: How Burberry’s China Strategy Turned Gen Z Momentum into Holiday Sales Strength

Burberry’s stronger-than-expected holiday performance marks more than a seasonal rebound for a luxury house emerging from a prolonged industry slowdown. It reflects a strategic recalibration that has aligned heritage, product focus, and localised storytelling with the tastes and behaviours of...

Why Price Stability Has Become the Core Strategy for IKEA’s Largest Retailer in an Unsettled Consumer Economy

For the world’s largest IKEA retailer, the lesson of the past five years has been clear: shoppers are no longer simply hunting for the lowest possible price, but for reassurance that prices will not swing unpredictably from one season to the next. After a period marked by pandemic shocks, inflation...

From Obscurity to Strategic Prize: Why a Breakout Biotech Has Drawn Takeover Attention

A little-known European biotech’s meteoric rise has become a case study in how scientific validation, market timing, and industry pressure can rapidly transform a niche player into a strategic prize. After years of relative anonymity, Abivax vaulted into the spotlight following clinical results...

GM’s EV Reckoning: How Strategic Retrenchment and Market Shifts Are Driving a $6 Billion Writedown

General Motors’ decision to take a $6 billion writedown tied to its electric vehicle strategy marks a significant inflection point for one of the auto industry’s most ambitious EV adopters. Once positioned as a leader intent on rapidly transitioning away from internal combustion engines, the...

Mega-Merger Calculus: How Rio Tinto’s Renewed Push for Glencore Reflects a Changing Mining Industry

Early-stage talks between Rio Tinto and Glencore have reopened the possibility of one of the most consequential mergers the global mining industry has ever contemplated. A transaction combining the two would create the world’s largest miner by market value, reshaping competitive dynamics across...

AI-Driven Memory Shock Reshapes Samsung’s Earnings Trajectory

Samsung Electronics’ forecast of a threefold jump in quarterly operating profit marks more than a cyclical rebound. It signals a structural shift in the global semiconductor market, where artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed memory chips from a commoditized input into a strategic...

Tesla’s Loss of EV Leadership to Baidu Reflects a Market Shift, Not a Momentary Stumble

For much of the past decade, Tesla symbolised the global electric vehicle revolution, setting the pace on technology, scale, and brand power. Its displacement as the world’s top EV seller by BYD marks more than a symbolic change at the top of the leaderboard. It signals a structural shift in the...

Tesla’s Delivery Slump Exposes Demand Strains as Incentives Fade and Rivals Crowd the Market

Tesla is heading toward another weak quarter for vehicle deliveries, underscoring how quickly the electric vehicle pioneer’s growth narrative is being tested by policy shifts and intensifying competition. Once buoyed by generous tax incentives and first-mover advantage, the company is now...
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World

Burying the Future: Why Communities Are Being Asked to Shoulder Nuclear Waste Forever

Control, Law and Leverage: How the Panama Canal Ruling Strengthens Washington’s Hand Against Beijing

Nobel Rules Affirmed: Peace Prize Is Immutable, Non-Transferable, Nobel Institute Explains After Machado’s Trump Comments

Washington’s Transactional Turn Puts Greenland at the Center of a New Arctic Power Play

Diplomacy at a Delicate Juncture as Washington Pushes Ukraine Talks Toward Compromise