Dis-Chem doubled its spending on X, bigly labs, its in-house technology and innovation unit, in the six months to August. The pharmacy group’s earnings fell again, even though revenue grew 8%. Headline earnings per share dropped 12.8% to 64.3c, Dis-Chem said in its interim results published after markets closed on Thursday. Revenue rose 8% to…
Smoke rises above the city following an air attack on the oil terminal in Saint Petersburg on October 18, 2026, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Stringer | Afp | Getty Images Crude oil prices fell Monday as traders weighed possibly higher Russian supplies hitting the market after U.S. sanctions relief on Friday. Brent crude futures,…
Military personnel accidentally triggered an inflatable slide attached to President Donald Trump’s Qatari-donated Air Force One plane Wednesday, a person briefed on the matter told NBC News. The slide inflated just before Trump was set to board the plane and head to Dallas for the GOP midterm convention. Instead of immediately exiting Marine One to…
SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas. Gabriel V Cardenas/Reuters SpaceX shares dropped below their initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday before closing just above that level, just over a month after the rockets-to-AI firm completed the biggest IPO ever and made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The shares slid 0.6% to…
Trump said on Saturday that an agreement would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, without giving further details.
Gold pure gold bar models captured in Shanghai, China on March 15, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images India, the world’s second-largest gold consumer, has raised import duties on gold and silver to 15% from 6%, just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to curb bullion purchases for a year as overseas…
The specific fruits of Disney’s $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games are finally coming into focus. According to Bloomberg, Epic is set to release a Disney-themed extraction shooter this November, marking the first major milestone in a partnership that has previously been limited to Fortnite character skins. The project is being positioned as a critical…
The price of oil surged Sunday after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, which killed its supreme leader. U.S. crude oil soared 12%, while Brent, the international oil benchmark, surged 14% after trading began at 6 p.m. ET. Sunday. Even before the weekend’s escalation, oil prices had risen 17% this year off President Donald Trump’s…
French pay-television giant and new MultiChoice Group owner, Groupe Canal+, plans to focus aggressively on subscriber growth to take advantage of what it has described as the “underpenetrated African pay-TV market”. The move, outlined in an investor presentation by Canal+ earlier this month, aims to offset MultiChoice’s sinking subscriber numbers, which declined by 1.2 million…
Rachel Reeves, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, delivers a speech in London, UK, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images British government bond yields rose sharply on Friday following reports Finance Minister Rachel Reeves is no longer planning to raise income tax rates in the Autumn Budget later this month. The yield…
