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Gary Nagle, chief executive officer of Glencore Plc, during an interview at the company’s headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Nagle said his company is the cheapest way to buy exposure to a coming copper boom as he predicted a renewed spree of dealmaking in the mining industry. Photographer: Jose Cendon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Switzerland’s Glencore to cut down output and jobs. ‘These are necessary actions we have to take’ says CEO

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KLM Embraer landing next to a Lufthansa Airbus A321

Delayed and cancelled flights have cost airlines €8.1 billion so far this year—now the EU is planning to cut compensation for passengers

By Umberto Bacchi and AFP

Stellantis North America COO and Jeep CEO Antonio Filosa speaks during the Stellantis press conference at the Automobility LA 2024 car show at Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, November 21, 2024. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP) (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

Auto giant Stellantis appoints 25-year company veteran—Antonio Filosa—as new CEO to lead turnaround

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Rolex luxury watches are displayed in a store window on 5th Avenue in New York City, on April 8, 2025. Swiss watches could face some of the highest US tariffs at 31 percent. The United States is Switzerland’s largest export market for watches. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Swiss watch exports to the U.S. soar nearly 150%, even as Trump’s higher tariffs are delayed

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Volvo Cars’ CEO Hakan Samuelsson is pictured at the Volvo Showroom in Stockholm as the Volvo Cars was listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange in Stockholm on October 29, 2021. – Sweden OUT (Photo by Jonas EKSTROMER / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by JONAS EKSTROMER/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Volvo Cars to cut 3,000 jobs—mostly in Sweden—in $1.9 billion cost-cutting plan

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FILED – 23 April 2025, Qatar, Doha: The CEO of Thyssenkrupp, Miguel Angel Lopez Borrego, stands in Qatar’s Chamber of Commerce and exchanges business cards with local business representatives. He is part of the business delegation visiting Qatar and the United Arab Emirates alongside North Rhine-Westphalia’s Minister President Hendrik Wüst in search of new business partners. Photo: Wolf von Dewitz/dpa (Photo by Wolf von Dewitz/picture alliance via Getty Images)

German industrial titan, Thyssenkrupp, prepares for a major shake-up—raising concerns over job cuts and a looming break-up

By Sam Reeves and AFP

Defence lawyer Marc Langrock (L) attends the trial against four former Volkswagen executives, charged with misconduct over their role in the carmaker’s manipulation of diesel emissions testing, in Braunschweig, northern Germany, on April 16, 2025. The defendants stand accused of organised commercial fraud and tax evasion in relation to the “dieselgate” scandal which rocked the global car industry in September 2015, when Volkswagen admitted tampering with millions of diesel vehicles to dupe pollution tests. (Photo by Michael Matthey / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL MATTHEY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

4 former Volkswagen managers convicted in ‘dieselgate’ emissions-cheating scandal

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HEINUJARVI, FINLAND – NOVEMBER 19: A soldier wearing the Finnish flag on his sleeve speaks to the media, as members of the Finnish arctic expert Jaeger Brigade train British, Swiss and french troops in cold-weather logistics on November 19, 2024 near Heinujarvi, Finland. The exercises include service members from 28 Allied and partner nations, and are taking place between November 4-24, across locations in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Poland, and Romania. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Europe is on edge as Russia builds up forces on Finland’s border. Could this frontier be the next conflict zone?

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LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 20: In this photo illustration coverage of the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II is seen on the front page of Britain’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper on September 20, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Rob Pinney/Getty Images)

Britain’s 170-year-old newspaper—The Telegraph—is set to be sold to U.S. investment group for $670 million

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HAMBURG, GERMANY – APRIL 15: A cargo ship laden with shipping containers motors past dock cranes at Hamburg Port on April 15, 2025 in Hamburg, Germany. A 90-day pause by the European Union on reciprocal tariffs against the USA went into effect today. EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic was in Washington D.C. yesterday in an effort to negotiate with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over defusing the the threat of escalating tariffs. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

German growth hits 0.4% in Q1, double the forecast as pre-tariff exports surge

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Airbus A320-251N, from easyJet (NEO Livery) company, landing at Barcelona-El Prat airport, in Barcelona, Spain, on April 1 2025. (Photo by Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images) — (Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

EasyJet posts widening losses owing to weaker demand and high costs through slow winter season

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People watch excavators tearing down a bridge of the A100 motorway in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district on April 12, 2025. The closure will affect the northern direction of travel of Berlin’s A100 autoroute, a vital throughway for car traffic in the city’s western districts. (Photo by Tobias Schwarz / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Collapsing bridges and crumbling roads: Germany’s infrastructure time bomb needs more than money to fix

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Large scale Chanel No. 5 perfume advertising poster outside Boots on 4th December 2024 in London, United Kingdom. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Chanel’s profits plunge 28% as global turbulence threatens the luxury giant’s pricing power

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An M&S store in Victoria, London, after the retailer updated the stock market on its financial performance. Marks and Spencer has said disruption from a major cyber attack is expected to continue through to July and reduce operating profits by around £300 million before action to offset the hit. Picture date: Wednesday May 21, 2025. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)

The $404 million cyberattack: Britain’s M&S faces pay hit and expects disruption to last through to July

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A view of the Middelgrunden wind farm, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on September 11, 2024. -Middelgrunden, when it was built in 2000, was the world’s largest offshore farm. The wind farm is located 3.5km offshore of the Danish coast. The farm delivers about 4% of the power for Copenhagen. (Photo by Manuel Romano/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Denmark doubles down on offshore wind with $8.3 billion in state support

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