Alpheus Mangale, group CEO of Seacom. Pan-African submarine internet cable operator Seacom has launched a new subsea cable system across the Indian Ocean Basin, Middle East, Mediterranean and Southern Europe. Unveiled at Submarine Networks World 2025, in Singapore, Seacom says the project marks a leap toward securing Africa’s role in the global digital economy, while…
A Qantas Airways Boeing 737 aircraft takes off from Sydney International Airport in Sydney on August 18, 2025. David Gray | Afp | Getty Images Shares of Australian flag carrier Qantas rose to a record high Thursday after its full-year earnings results beat estimates, buoyed by resilient demand across its domestic and international networks. Qantas…
Visitors visit the “the monsters Convenience Store” themed exhibition created by POP MART with IP LABUBU as the selling point, Shanghai, China, July 23, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Shares in Chinese toymaker Pop Mart fell Wednesday, a day after the company posted a near-400% surge in net profit, driven by booming…
A sign marks the location of a Honda dealership in Libertyville, Illinois, on Dec. 18, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images Japanese auto giant Honda‘s first-quarter operating profits fell 50% year over year on Wednesday, missing estimates due to U.S. auto tariffs and a stronger yen. Here are Honda’s results compared with the mean estimates…
Trowbridge in Somerset, England, on March 15, 2025. Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images Britain’s BP on Tuesday posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter profit, following a period of heightened volatility for global oil and gas prices. The struggling energy major reported underlying replacement cost profit, used as a proxy for net profit, of $2.35…
Sign at the entrance to the Puma store in Midtown Manhattan. Erik Mcgregor | Lightrocket | Getty Images Puma shares plummeted as much as 18% Friday after the German sportwear brand posted worse-than-expected second-quarter sales and cut its full-year guidance, flagging the impact of U.S. trade tariffs. In a preliminary updated after markets closed on…
A visitor takes a picture of a model of SK hynix’s high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology during the 2025 World IT Show in Seoul on April 24, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea’s SK Hynix on Thursday posted record operating profit and revenue in the second quarter, driven by sustained demand for…
The Commerzbank AG headquarters, in the financial district of Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. Emanuele Cremaschi | Getty Images News | Getty Images UniCredit on Wednesday posted a sharp second-quarter profit hike and lifted its full-year guidance, a day after withdrawing its takeover bid for Italian peer Banco BPM amid opposition from Rome….
A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Daniel Ceng | Anadolu | Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday reported a near 61% year-on-year rise in second-quarter profit, hitting…
Shares of Bytes Technology Group, which is listed in London and Johannesburg, plunged more 27% on Wednesday after the IT firm said its operating profit for the first half of fiscal 2026 would be marginally lower due to delayed customer payments and longer-than-expected readjustments from internal restructuring. Trading in the first few months of the…
