Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election — the country’s second vote in just over a month — giving the former prime minister a comfortable majority in parliament to allow him to form a single-party government.
A group of lenders led by Apollo Global Management Inc. is providing as much as $2 billion to Wolfspeed Inc. to support the semiconductor maker’s expansion in the US, according to a statement seen by Bloomberg.
Guatemalans angry about inflation and rising crime look set to reject the ruling party candidate in elections on Sunday.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russia’s private militia the Wagner Group, called off his mutiny after his forces advanced to within a few hundred miles of Moscow, defusing the biggest threat to Vladimir Putin’s grip on Russia in his almost quarter-century rule.
When Anselm Schmucki took over a tiny UK payments firm in 2019 and relinquished control in March this year, few paid much attention. But the little-known Swiss financier is now under intense scrutiny.
Stock market predictions are hard to make and so it has proved in the first half of the year: Almost no one foresaw an artificial intelligence-fueled $5 trillion bounce in tech, nor a banking crisis.
South Korea is considering lowering its 2023 economic growth forecast to reflect sluggish performance by the semiconductor industry, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Japan’s Self-Defence Forces are considering using Starlink, the satellite communications network of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the Yomiuri newspaper reported.
Elon Musk said that SpaceX has made well over 1,000 changes to Starship following the vehicle’s first test launch in April, which failed to reach orbit.
Elon Musk, in brief remarks via Twitter Spaces, said that a proposed cage match with Mark Zuckerberg “might actually happen.”
