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Bumper Christmas for air travel as 300mn take to the skies

Airlines on track for the biggest holiday season getaway in history as industry braces for record demand

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WH Smith Faces FCA Probe Over Accounting Error That Hit Shares

WH Smith Plc is under investigation by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority over the accounting error in its North American business that triggered a stock slump and the resignation of its chief executive officer.

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Coty Is Said to Sell Remaining 25.8% Stake in Wella to KKR

Coty Inc. is selling the remainder of its stake in Wella to KKR & Co. for $750 million and the right to a share of future proceeds from a sale or initial public offering of the haircare brand.

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Gulfstream LNG CEO Says Carbon Offsets, Cleaner LNG Are ‘Bullshit’

Several Gulf Coast LNG and utility executives dismissed the importance of sustainability for LNG projects at the Reuters Energy LIVE 2025 conference in Houston, Texas, last week. “So, at the end of the day, all the sustainability stuff, I’m not going to belittle it too much,” Vivek Chandra, CEO of G…

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WPP’s Cindy Rose prepares radical reset in turnaround ‘mission’

Advertising group’s new CEO plans restructuring and says traditional agency model is from a ‘bygone era’

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India’s Big-Bang Financial Reforms Target Wave of Foreign Money

India’s long-awaited package of financial services reforms is setting the stage for a surge of foreign capital into the world’s fastest-growing major economy.

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India’s parliament clears full foreign ownership in insurance

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Here's every AI subscription I paid for in 2025 - and which ones I'm taking into 2026

Are AI tools worth the money? After reviewing my 2025 spending, I've made one big change.

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Goldman, JPMorgan See India’s Record IPO Boom Extending to 2026

India’s proceeds from initial public offerings in 2026 may hit a record for a third year, with a strong pipeline and buoyant investor demand supporting momentum, according to top investment bankers.

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WhiteFiber signs 10-year, 40 MW colocation deal with Nscale valued at about $865 million

The firm's Enovum unit will deliver 40 megawatts of critical IT load in two phases at a campus in Madison, North Carolina, under a 10-year agreement.

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The Booming Business of Chinese Peptides

Everyone seems to be experimenting.

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TikTok Signs Agreement for New US Joint Venture | The China Show 12/19/2025

“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, Yvonne Man gives global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Sunway Healthcare Said to Gauge Interest for Malaysia IPO in January

Malaysia’s Sunway Healthcare Holdings Bhd. will start gauging investor interest as soon as January for an initial public offering that may raise around $700 million, according to people familiar with the matter.

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America Inc’s new boardroom trend: the chief exiting officer

CEO turnover at US public companies is running at its highest level since 2010

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Ford Cuts Its EV Losses, But Sets Its EV Transition Back

Ford is killing the F-150 Lightning and US E-Transit models. No mention was made of the Mustang Mach E, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up too much. The market responded by increasing its share price. While it is discouraging to those of us supporting clean technology, the move made ... [continued]
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Apple becomes a debt collector with its new developer agreement

Apple says it can now collect any money a developer owes the tech giant at any time.

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£100 contactless card limit to be lifted

Card providers can decide whether to offer unlimited payments on contactless cards.

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Agentic AI security focus of ServiceNow acquisition targets

ServiceNow attempts to build one (secure) platform to rule them all.

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After years of uncertainty, TikTok signs deal to sell its U.S. operations

TikTok’s long-running saga of a U.S. ban may be coming to an end after the company signed a deal to sell its American operations to a new joint venture.

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AtScale raises funding round led by Snowflake Ventures

Data management provider AtScale Inc. today announced that it has closed a funding round led by Snowflake Inc.’s venture capital arm. The company didn’t specify the size of the deal, saying only that it’s the largest equity investment it has received to date. That indicates the round is worth more t…