Bank of Italy crackdown aimed to hobble public sector debt collector
Regulatory pressure on BFF weighed on share price and has left bank vulnerable to opportunistic investors
U.S. Commerce Dept. Inquiry Into Megaspeed Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
An investigation into Megaspeed, a Singapore company that was buying advanced Nvidia A.I. chips, was transferred to the Justice Department after a top Nvidia executive reached out to Commerce Department officials.
Could the Voter Backlash Against A.I. Actually Help the Economy?
Voter backlash could threaten the data center boom. Some economists think that could be a good thing.
Big Tech's Political Headache and the Fight for America's Future
The midterms exposed a growing disenchantment with Silicon Valley's vision of the future. Will Democrats challenge the industry, or just offer it a more politically palatable way forward?
Apparently, American voters aren’t swallowing Silicon Valley’s promises or fancying the idea of a giant, electricity-hogging server farm in their backyard.
As election day approached, many candidates were tripping over themselves to show who could take the hardest line against Big Tech’s AI ambitions, and voters appear to have paid attention.
How the world became too reliant on Jensen Huang
The chief executive’s travails are a reminder that a single point of failure is never a good thing for a big company
Whitbread investors slap down activist Corvex’s bid for board seat
Shareholders in Premier Inn owner vote against resolution to hand board seat to US hedge fund
UniCredit set to seal Commerzbank takeover this month
Italian lender plans to launch restructuring of German target in first quarter of 2027
Paraguay’s bank collapse brought down a president – and exposed as myth the nation’s status as a ‘Dubai of South America’
Protesters on Nov. 5 burn a effigy depicting now ex-President Santiago Pena outside Congress in Asuncion, Paraguay, days after the beginning of a banking crisis to which he was linked.
Voters rejected data centers in dozens of communities, fueling the narrative that opposition to the AI infrastructure contributed to the 2026 blue wave
A woman in New Port Richey, Fla., voices her opposition to the construction of AI data centers on July 18, 2026. Thomas Simonetti/AFP via Getty ImagesData centers were on the ballot, both directly and indirectly, in the 2026 midterm elections.
Extreme summer weather: what does it mean for euro area construction output?
Summer 2026 brought repeated episodes of extreme heat to large parts of the euro area. This box assesses the implications for euro area construction output. Survey data from the European Commission show that the share of construction firms citing weather as a factor limiting their activity was exceptionally high, reaching a record level in August and remaining elevated in September. Estimates based on country and sector data suggest that such disruption lowers construction output temporarily, with losses in a given month typically made up in the following month.
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