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The Direct Line Insurance Group Plc app and the Aviva Plc app displayed on a mobile phone arranged in London, UK, on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. Aviva Plc reached a preliminary agreement to buy Direct Line Insurance Group Plc for £3.6 billion ($4.6 billion) in a deal that would create the UK’s largest motor insurer. Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Aviva agrees to buy U.K. insurer Direct Line for £3.7 billion

By Aaron Kirchfeld and Bloomberg

Ida Lerner, chief financial officer of DNB Bank ASA, during an interview in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2023. Norway’s largest lender is sticking with its clients in the fossil-fuel industry, even as global pressure to move away from carbon-dioxide emitting energy sources intensifies. Photographer: Fredrik Solstad/Bloomberg via Getty Images

In Norway companies rush to put women on boards before deadline

By Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth and Bloomberg

PRODUCTION – 06 December 2024, Berlin: A BYD Seal U car drives along Kurfürstenstrasse. The name BYD comes from the abbreviation of the Latinized Chinese company name Biyadí. BYD now also stands for the company slogan Build Your Dreams. Photo: Jens Kalaene/dpa (Photo by Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Chinese EV makers hit EU wall as tariffs inflate cost of imports

By Anthony Palazzo and Bloomberg

Signage displayed at the Honda Motor Co. headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. Nissan Motor Co. is in talks with fellow Japanese carmaker Honda Motor Co. to merge, in a deal that would help the ailing company survive, while also creating the world’s third-largest automaker with a better chance of withstanding the industry’s ructions. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Dire situation in China is one reason for Honda, Nissan merger

TOPSHOT – Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) speaks on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5, 2024. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump says talk that he’s ceded presidency to Musk is a ‘hoax’

17 December 2024, Estonia, Tapa: British soldiers from the NATO combat unit in Estonia stand in a military hangar Photo: Alexander Welscher/dpa (Photo by Alexander Welscher/picture alliance via Getty Images)

EU leaders see NATO defense spending goal rising from 2%

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 16: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on December 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. In a news conference that went over an hour, Trump announced that SoftBank will invest over $100 billion in projects in the United States including 100,000 artificial intelligence related jobs and then took questions on Syria, Israel, Ukraine, the economy, cabinet picks, and many other topics. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

‘God Bless America’ fund beats political rivals with 33% gain

A tanker ship enters the Panama Canal from the Pacific side on October 25, 2024. The Panama Canal earned record revenues of just under $5 billion last year despite a reduction in ship traffic due to a drought, the waterway announced October 25. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump demands Panama lower transit fees or return canal

Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, during an interview in the spin room ahead of the second presidential debate at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris enter Tuesday’s debate in search of the same goal, a moment that will help them gain the edge in a race polls show is essentially tied. Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Trump’s daughter-in-law says she won’t seek US Senate seat

Delivery trucks parked at an Amazon warehouse in the Staten Island borough of New York, US, on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Amazon Inc. on Friday lost its bid to challenge a representation election at a New York warehouse, cementing it as the company’s first unionized facility. Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Amazon NYC warehouse targeted by Teamsters as strike expands

A general view of cocoa pods at a cocoa farm in Ebebda, on November 30, 2024. Cocoa is one of Cameroon’s key export products. A significant rise in cocoa bean prices has been reported in recent weeks by Cameroon’s Supply Chain Information System (SIF). On November 25, 2024, the reported price range per kilogram at the Douala port has been set between CFA4,000 (USD 6.39) and CFA4,200 (USD 6.71) per kilogram. (Photo by Daniel BELOUMOU OLOMO / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO/AFP via Getty Images)

Cocoa caps 2024 as biggest commodity winner. It’s not over yet

BOCA CHICA, TEXAS – NOVEMBER 19: SpaceXs Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster rocket lift off during a test flight Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, at Starbase in Boca Chica. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Why companies like OpenAI and SpaceX are staying private longer

CFPB sues JPMorgan, Bank of America over alleged Zelle fraud

An exterior view of Party City store

Party City to wind down operations, fire employees, CEO says

This illustration photo shows a person checking information online for the now permanently closed Paulsboro, New Jersey's Hometown Deli in front of a screen displaying the facade of the restaurant.

Fraud case tied to $100 million NJ deli ends in guilty pleas