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Google sets out inviting stall for robot shoppers - tinyurl.com/3m6zub3k
Google sets out inviting stall for robot shoppers
The online advertising goliath unveiled an AI-native e-commerce system that caters to computers instead of humans. As machines make more purchases, competition will shift to a different set of data an...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Google sets out inviting stall for robot shoppers - tinyurl.com/3m6zub3k
Boston Scientific deal is too rich for its blood - tinyurl.com/59387u7e @robcyran.bsky.social
Boston Scientific deal is too rich for its blood
Near-term prospects don't justify the plan to buy clot-removing Penumbra for $15 bln. The implied return amounts to just 3% and a similar acquisition 20 years ago was disastrous. Bigger companies ofte...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Boston Scientific deal is too rich for its blood - tinyurl.com/59387u7e @robcyran.bsky.social
TV tie-up is more pleasing with Love Island sequel www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea... @jen-johnson.bsky.social
TV tie-up is more pleasing with Love Island sequel
With US streamers dominating, Europe’s studios need scale to survive. France’s Banijay knows this, which is why it's in talks with The Traitors’ creator All3Media. A combined group could be worth $5 b...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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Engine groups’ heyday can survive planemaker redux www.breakingviews.com/columns/big-...
Engine groups’ heyday can survive planemaker redux
Airbus and Boeing may finally top a 2018 delivery record this year. That’s a potential risk to maintenance specialists like $340 bln GE, who gain as older jets fly longer. But massive backlogs, resili...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Engine groups’ heyday can survive planemaker redux www.breakingviews.com/columns/big-...
US wrestles with hard realities of pressuring Iran www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea...
US wrestles with hard realities of pressuring Iran
Oil prices fell as Donald Trump seemed to ease his stance on US intervention. Economic heat, like 25% tariffs on Iran traders, may irk China but not deter a regime that’s killing its citizens. The exc...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
US wrestles with hard realities of pressuring Iran www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea...
Coke’s congealed coffee sale mars CEO departure - tinyurl.com/2k76r9ux
Coke’s congealed coffee sale mars CEO departure
The soda giant dropped plans to sell Costa Coffee after bids fell short of hopes for some 2 bln pounds, the FT reports. Outgoing CEO James Quincey paid almost twice that and has little to show for mov...
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January 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Coke’s congealed coffee sale mars CEO departure - tinyurl.com/2k76r9ux
Lending boom raises economic hopes and bank fears - tinyurl.com/ycyesmt2
Lending boom raises economic hopes and bank fears
The four largest US lenders grew their loan books by $385 bln, or nearly 10%, in 2025. The biggest jump in years, it defies worries over a flagging economy or rising rivals. Yet signs of increasing fi...
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January 14, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Lending boom raises economic hopes and bank fears - tinyurl.com/ycyesmt2
Toyota ups buyout bid from derisory to just mean - www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea... @hudsonlockett.bsky.social
Toyota ups buyout bid from derisory to just mean
Group insiders have increased their $33 bln offer for Toyota Industries by 15%. It’s a fig leaf, merely reflecting the rally in the stocks the target owns and returning to some 40% how much the consor...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Toyota ups buyout bid from derisory to just mean - www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea... @hudsonlockett.bsky.social
Rio Tinto and Glencore can meet each other halfway - www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea... @karenkkwok.bsky.social
Rio Tinto and Glencore can meet each other halfway
The $140 bln Aussie miner will want a nil-premium merger; its Swiss peer a normal 30% takeover premium. But 15% should be enough for both sets of shareholders to live with. Especially when the deal ma...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Hong Kong’s top corporate gadfly leaves huge void - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/4p3sstwx
Hong Kong’s top corporate gadfly leaves huge void
David Webb, who has died age 60, was the city's patron saint of good governance. The banker-turned-activist-investor's keen analysis and scathing criticism led to real reforms. But the hub's lack of c...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Hong Kong’s top corporate gadfly leaves huge void - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/4p3sstwx
Iran upheaval will be messy for Beijing - tinyurl.com/mpcp8tj2
Breakingviews - Iran upheaval will be messy for Beijing
Donald Trump's threatened 25% tariff on Tehran's business partners complicates Sino-American trade ties and deals a fresh blow to China's strategy to diversify its energy supply. Yet Iran's control of...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Iran upheaval will be messy for Beijing - tinyurl.com/mpcp8tj2
Fed meddling shocks signs of life into Congress - tinyurl.com/3sp9bj4k @gaberubin.bsky.social
Fed meddling shocks signs of life into Congress
Outrage from pivotal legislators spurred furious Trump administration backpedaling from its probe of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Congress is slowly rising from supine submission to administra...
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January 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Fed meddling shocks signs of life into Congress - tinyurl.com/3sp9bj4k @gaberubin.bsky.social
Obesity pills are shaky Hail Mary for Novo Nordisk - www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons...
Obesity pills are shaky Hail Mary for Novo Nordisk
The $266 bln group has beaten arch-rival Eli Lilly in bringing an oral weight loss remedy to market. Tablets may appeal to patients wary of the traditional jabs where the US giant dominates. Success w...
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January 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Obesity pills are shaky Hail Mary for Novo Nordisk - www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons...
Grok no-brainer is make-or-break for EU tech rules www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea... @jen-johnson.bsky.social
Grok no-brainer is make-or-break for EU tech rules
European Union lawmakers agree that explicit images generated by Elon Musk’s chatbot are immoral and illegal. The EU Digital Services Act can ban miscreants or fine them up to 6% of sales. If its wiel...
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January 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Grok no-brainer is make-or-break for EU tech rules www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea... @jen-johnson.bsky.social
🎧 Markets absorbed many shocks in 2025. Will they show the same resilience in the year ahead?
In this episode of The Big View, Reuters Open Interest Editor in Charge Anna Szymanski joined @petertl.bsky.social to debate inflation, AI, and the buy-the-dip mindset.
Full episode here 👉 reut.rs/3ZfSTr7
In this episode of The Big View, Reuters Open Interest Editor in Charge Anna Szymanski joined @petertl.bsky.social to debate inflation, AI, and the buy-the-dip mindset.
Full episode here 👉 reut.rs/3ZfSTr7
January 13, 2026 at 7:52 AM
🎧 Markets absorbed many shocks in 2025. Will they show the same resilience in the year ahead?
In this episode of The Big View, Reuters Open Interest Editor in Charge Anna Szymanski joined @petertl.bsky.social to debate inflation, AI, and the buy-the-dip mindset.
Full episode here 👉 reut.rs/3ZfSTr7
In this episode of The Big View, Reuters Open Interest Editor in Charge Anna Szymanski joined @petertl.bsky.social to debate inflation, AI, and the buy-the-dip mindset.
Full episode here 👉 reut.rs/3ZfSTr7
Nestlé and Unilever’s India engine risks stalling - tinyurl.com/5scmpnkt
January 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Nestlé and Unilever’s India engine risks stalling - tinyurl.com/5scmpnkt
BHP can turn M&A exclusion to its advantage - @antonycurrie.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/mrywsrh8
BHP can turn M&A exclusion to its advantage
Two failed tilts at Anglo American show CEO Mike Henry wants a deal. Yet he won't fight Rio for Glencore, Reuters reports. That'll allow the $160 bln miner to develop its copper assets, let valuations...
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January 13, 2026 at 7:25 AM
BHP can turn M&A exclusion to its advantage - @antonycurrie.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/mrywsrh8
Airline deal flies smoother with fewer passengers - tinyurl.com/27vpyyz8
Airline deal flies smoother with fewer passengers
Messy entanglements among discount carriers Spirit, Frontier, JetBlue and Alaska Air have soured M&A prospects. Allegiant’s plan to buy Sun Country for $1.5 bln bears similar burdens. The saving grace...
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January 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Airline deal flies smoother with fewer passengers - tinyurl.com/27vpyyz8
White House whims create bank capital dilemma - tinyurl.com/4v98t6m6
White House whims create bank capital dilemma
Bank stocks rose on regulatory tweaks freeing up $140 bln in big lenders’ coffers. As they prepare to report earnings, the president’s call to cap credit card rates is a nasty jolt. What bankers say a...
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January 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
White House whims create bank capital dilemma - tinyurl.com/4v98t6m6
Tobacco giants get another reason to quit India - tinyurl.com/5dc4wx27
Tobacco giants get another reason to quit India
BAT has already slashed its stake in $47 bln ITC while PMI owns just 25% of Godfrey Phillips. Foreign investment caps and a vaping ban dent the country’s appeal. A surprise tax hike on smokes that wip...
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January 12, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Tobacco giants get another reason to quit India - tinyurl.com/5dc4wx27
Japan snap election would stoke fiscal, China risk - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/mvphu5nr
Breakingviews - Japan snap election would stoke fiscal, China risk
PM Sanae Takaichi may capitalise on high approval ratings and take the country to the polls in February, per local media. If the gambit paid off, she would have a stronger mandate for spending and agg...
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January 12, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Japan snap election would stoke fiscal, China risk - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/mvphu5nr
Copper crunch threatens a tech reckoning - tinyurl.com/4k7f8pze
Copper crunch threatens a tech reckoning
The red metal topped $13,000 per ton for the first time ever, with prices seen going higher. Even amid tepid traditional manufacturing activity, AI data centers and electric cars eat up ever more copp...
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January 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Copper crunch threatens a tech reckoning - tinyurl.com/4k7f8pze
Boaz Weinstein gives London funds necessary jolt - www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea...
Boaz Weinstein gives London funds necessary jolt
The hedge fund manager wants to replace the board of a $1 bln company run by Baillie Gifford. It's an odd target, and Weinstein's aims may not align with other shareholders'. But his pushy assault giv...
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January 9, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Boaz Weinstein gives London funds necessary jolt - www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea...
Rio-Glencore would be M&A gift that keeps giving - @antonycurrie.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/3czzzjs7
Breakingviews - Rio-Glencore would be M&A gift that keeps giving
The two miners are mulling a $207 bln merger again. A combination could then create some 50% more shareholder value by spinning off or selling iron ore and coal. That would make buybacks easier and un...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Rio-Glencore would be M&A gift that keeps giving - @antonycurrie.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/3czzzjs7
India sets the stage for US obesity price war -
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India sets the stage for US obesity price war
Ozempic’s near $100 launch price in India, far below Eli Lilly’s, reveals a stark pricing shift. The discount may be justified given the drug’s Indian patent expires this year. But it foreshadows a bi...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:14 AM
India sets the stage for US obesity price war -
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