Mohammed Badaru and four other ministers and appointees of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu have resigned. The full list of exits from his administration has emerged.
The chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, has clarified the government's position on TINs on bank accounts.
Argentine President Javier Milei blamed "political panic" for rattling markets Friday in the run-up to crucial midterm elections, sending the peso into a tailspin and hurting the country's sovereign risk.
German sports car maker Porsche said Friday that it would dramatically slow its shift to electric vehicles amid weak demand, prompting parent company Volkswagen to warn of a multibillion-euro hit. The maker of the 911 sports car cited the "significant slower growth of the demand for exclusive battery-electric vehicles" as a reason for making the changes.
For months, US President Donald Trump has been piling pressure on the Federal Reserve over delayed cuts to interest rates, casting the institution's independence into doubt. Cutting interest rates helps households borrow for consumption and businesses for investment, promoting growth but at the risk of spurring inflation.
Donald Trump's pick to join the US Federal Reserve said Friday that he did not speak to the president about how to vote on interest rates ahead of the central bank's meeting this week. Miran was the sole dissenter to the Fed's decision this week to cut interest rates by a quarter point, instead favoring a bigger half-point reduction -- more in line with Trump's frequent demands for slashing rates.
Sweden's government said Friday it was ready to offer up to 220 billion kronor ($23.3 billion) in loans to utilities for the construction of new nuclear reactors as the Nordic country commits to developing more nuclear power. "The framework is based on expected lending for the construction of new reactors totalling 220 billion kronor over 12 years," the government said in a statement.
At the opening of Ukraine's biggest defence tech fair, arms executives and government officials were welcomed by a giant movie screen blaring an action-style trailer with heavy base undertones. "It's like watching the sequel of 'Don't Look Up'," he said, referring to the dystopian movie where scientists try to alert oblivious and disinterested officials about an imminent catastrophe.
Tariff fears are hurting World Cup merchandise orders at Shang Yabing's Chinese knitwear factory, where racks of scarves bear the logos of national teams from Ireland to Tanzania. "We've been in this industry for over 10 years, and we've produced World Cup-related merchandise for nearly every tournament in that time," Shang said.
Chinese consumer tech giant Xiaomi will remotely fix a flaw in the assisted driving system on over 110,000 of its popular SU7 electric cars, the firm and regulators said Friday, months after a deadly crash involving the model.
Asian markets swung Friday at the end of a strong week for investors following the US interest rate cut, with attention now turning to a call between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. With that in mind, even figures showing a sharp drop in initial jobless claims for last week did little to dampen expectations that rates will continue to be cut.
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