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Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest garment producer, fears pain from Trump tariffs: ‘We were not ready for this’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday slapped punishing new tariffs of 37% on Bangladesh.

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Trump tariffs leave Northern Ireland, and its whiskey and plane makers, at the whim of the EU

Northern Ireland's special relationship with the U.K. and EU could make or break the country after Trump's tariff rollout.

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The Czech Republic, and its quiet automotive giant Skoda, are bucking an economic downturn unfolding in its crucial ally Germany

Volkswagen-owned Skoda is defying a broader downturn for the German carmaker.

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Donald Trump’s strategy to weaken the dollar could already be a success—in making it too expensive for Americans to travel to Europe

Virgin Atlantic, which made $1.3 billion from the U.S. last year, is seeing a decline in demand from Americans.

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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet asks new hires what they’ve learned in the last 6 months: ‘If they can’t answer that question, we know they’re not a learner’

Julie Sweet wants workers to be ready to adapt amid AI’s radical impact on the way we work.

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Sir Richard Branson says history will remember this time as when the West’s trust in America ‘ended’

Branson lambasted the new Donald Trump administration, comparing current actions to Roosevelt hypothetically siding with Hitler in World War II.

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Ferrari’s U.S. customers may be forced to pay $50,000 more for their 12Cilindri as carmaker hikes prices over Trump tariffs

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna warned in March the carmaker was ready with countermeasures in the event of tariffs.

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Sanofi’s chief digital officer says remote work means employees lose the ‘serendipity’ needed to innovate

"I think we were contrarians,” Sanofi's chief digital officer Emmanuel Frenehard told Fortune. “I think the contrarians are becoming the norm.”

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Rolls-Royce CEO fired managers and held staff brainstorms as part of a ‘4 pillar’ turnaround plan that led to 500% share price jump

Tufan Erginbilgiç's four pillars involved showing employees the extent of Rolls-Royce's issues, then giving them a say in fixing them.

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‘I’m not trying to turn GSK into Google’: How GSK’s Silicon Valley veteran has transformed the pharma giant into a tech powerhouse

Shobie Ramakrishnan has helped transform GSK into a data-led company, helping speed up drug discovery.

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The billionaire pipeline: How a 2000s startup boom fueled Europe’s tech renaissance

Why did it take Europe so long to kick-start its entrepreneurial streak? And what changed to allow the continent’s founder factories to flourish?

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Why a partner at early Facebook backer Accel grills jobhunters about the biggest risk they’ve ever taken

Harry Nelis doesn't just want his future staffers to have an appetite for risk, but the right appetite.

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Klarna CEO defends DoorDash ‘eat now, pay later’ deal as critics slam ‘Collateralized Doordash Obligations’

Sebastian Siemiatkowski said U.S. customers would discover the many ways to use Klarna, as DoorDash deal inspires "The Big Short" memes.

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Russia’s fallen giant Gazprom selling off luxury properties as group swings to reported $12.9 billion loss

Gazprom is struggling with collapsed demand in the West, leading it to trim the fat.

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Newly minted millennials and Gen Z now make up 40% of new Ferrari buyers

Most of Ferrari's clients are existing customers, but new buyers are increasingly coming from younger generations.

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UBS follows Deutsche Bank by banning staff from working remotely on both Friday and Monday

UBS staff will have to come into the office on either a Monday or a Friday as the bank tries to better manage its space.

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Volkswagen’s own-brand currywurst sausage proves almost as popular as its cars amid automotive sales decline

Volkswagen sold 8.55 million currywursts last year, almost equalling the 9 million cars sold across the group.

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Germany’s biggest weapons contractor—now worth more than Volkswagen—could literally be moving onto carmaker’s turf

Rheinmetall is open to the prospect of buying up an unwanted Volkswagen site, the latest sign of a shift in Germany's industrial backbone.

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Bank CEO running 4-day work week says cutting working hours isn’t ‘progressive’, and AI will make it ‘bloody logical’

Atom Bank CEO Mark Mullen doesn't expect to see most his employees at the company's new HQ in Newcastle.

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A Barcelona restaurant-NGO hybrid could offer a solution to the city’s over-tourism problem

Global Humanitaria's restaurant is revered by tourists, who leave with more than a full stomach.

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European markets hold steady as U.S. trade tensions and recession fears rattle global markets

London's stock market dipped in morning deals Tuesday, while Paris and Frankfurt edged higher, helped by gains for infrastructure and defense stocks.

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Europe’s airlines are plunging in value as Trump recession warnings threaten Americans’ ‘unbelievable’ spending power abroad

Shares in IAG and Air France-KLM fell as fears of a U.S. recession weigh on holiday spending hopes.

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Billionaire Sir Richard Branson plans to take on Eurostar’s 30-year train monopoly with $900 million Virgin Group fundraise

Branson's Virgin Group confirmed a mammoth fundraising plan that could see Virgin operate a Eurostar alternative by the end of the decade.

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Europe announces unprecedented $840 billion rearmament plan to tackle ‘grave’ threats, sending defense giants BAE and Thales soaring

“We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times. I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face,” said Ursula...

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Elon Musk labels Geoffrey Hinton ‘carelessly ignorant, cruel’ after ‘godfather of AI’ calls for him to be banished from Royal Society

Geoffrey Hinton wants Musk to be banished form the Royal Society, but note for alleged "Nazi salutes".

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GSK could double CEO Emma Walmsley’s pay to $27 million in bid to bring U.K. exec salaries in line with the U.S.

The British pharma giant said Emma Walmsley's current pay could put off candidates for her eventual successor.

28.02.2025 8

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As Stellantis posts 70% profit plunge, fresh inventory data suggests U.S. price cuts may be working

Data from AI agent CoPilot shows inventory has fallen faster than prices in the last year for Jeep, Ram, and Chrysler cars.

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Barcelona legend Gerard Piqué thinks he’s created the perfect sport for Gen Z’s falling attention span

The Kings League, which Piqué calls “football with a video game,” is building a massive youth-based audience.

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It’s 5 minutes to midnight for Germany’s economy, Bundesbank chief warns after central bank’s first loss in 45 years

The Bundesbank racked up its first loss since 1979, as president Joachim Nagel called on Germany's incoming government to save the economy.

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London firms are overcorrecting on office space amid RTO push, adding to a $43 billion upgrade bill across the capital, JLL estimates

The cost of retrofitting London's offices is growing, adding to a crunch as firms order employees back to the office.

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German bosses are blaming the country’s economic woes on ‘work-shy’ Gen Z calling in sick nearly 20 times a year

Germany’s economy would have grown by 0.5% instead of contracting in 2023 if illness wasn’t so high, researchers say.

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Germany’s economy shrinks again as manufacturing and exports falter

A manufacturing slump and export decline are among the major challenges awaiting Friedrich Merz, who won Germany's national election at the weekend...

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‘Enough is enough’: Europe’s leaders are piling pressure on the EU to release $200 billion of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine

A rift is emerging between the east and west of the EU over what to do with Russia's seized central bank reserves.

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Wealthy millennials are spending thousands on Jaguar Land Rover monthly subscriptions as flexibility becomes the newest form of luxury

Jaguar Land Rover's investment vehicle has created two startups that are attracting young, wealthy drivers.

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Geopolitical disruptions aren’t putting businesses off international trade, HSBC says

The world's fastest growing companies expect most of their sales to come from overseas, even as uncertainty grows.

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Chinese retailers are offloading polished diamonds as demand tanks, adding to a $2 billion inventory headache for De Beers

Anglo American's CEO says the headwinds from lab-grown diamonds were surmountable as owner writes down $2.9 billion of De Beers value.

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ECB extends hybrid policy that allows staff to work anywhere in the EU for 90 days a year after rave reviews

Nearly nine in 10 workers reported an improved work-life balance, giving central bank an edge in recruitment ahead of the private sector.

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Weight-loss drug Zepbound helped drive Ireland to $76 billion in goods exports to the U.S. last year—a bittersweet reminder of the challenges ahead

Ireland's pharmaceutical industry shipped billions' worth of goods to the U.S., but face threats from Trump 2.0.

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Elon Musk faces exile from 365-year-old Royal Society scientific institution over his political behavior

More than 2,700 scientists sign open letter calling for Musk's removal after being described as a "Bond villain" by a former member.

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ASML boss says young people are always asking him how to become CEO. He calls it an ‘absurd’ question

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says young workers should focus on what they're going to do tomorrow.

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Ineos in legal scrap with New Zealand Rugby team as Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s group blames high energy costs for trying to ‘adjust’ multimillion-dollar sponsorship

Ineos says it tried to adjust its agreement with New Zealand Rugby, citing the effect of high energy costs and carbon taxes on its business.

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Nokia picks Intel exec as first U.S.-born CEO as group pivots to AI boom

Nokia has appointed Intel's AI exec Justin Hogard as it seeks to arrest stagnant revenues.

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Ferrari reportedly threatens to blacklist super-rich buyers who customize their cars with ‘strange’ designs

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna is trying to find way for buyers to not make their cars quite so personal.

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Monzo founder says the American dream is ‘antithetical’ to British culture, where a ‘know your place’ attitude kills innovation

University undergrads in the U.S. are pitching Tom Blomfield startup ideas, while he says British PhDs are just going to McKinsey.

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Novo Nordisk missed its diversity targets last year, and its CEO paid a financial price

Novo Nordisk's CEO took a $1.5 million pay cut in 2024 as the pharma giant's share price tanked and it missed profit and DEI targets.

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As growth slows, CFO says Novo Nordisk is prepping for the next generation of weight loss drugs

Novo Nordisk's Karsten Munk Knudsen is targeting 800 million obese people globally.

05.02.2025 10

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Daniel Ek says Spotify’s new CFO, a former defense exec, is ditching his suits for t-shirts as streaming giant breaks fresh records

Christian Luiga has dressed down since moving over from arms manufacturer Saab AB.

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Investors are growing anxious about Novo Nordisk’s silence since disappointing CagriSema weight loss drug results

Investors are upset at a lack of clarity over the results of Wegovy successor CagriSema after trials published in December.

04.02.2025 10

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Mistral boss says tech CEOs’ obsession with AI outsmarting humans is a ‘very religious’ fascination

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch thinks the clamor from people like Elon Musk to declare AI as smarter than humans is driven by an apparent God complex.

04.02.2025 10

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Traders are moving so much gold from the Bank of England to the U.S. to avoid Trump tariffs that the waiting time has reportedly octupled

Investors are reportedly waiting up to eight weeks to unlock their gold and ship it to the U.S.

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