5 h. ago Child attempted murder rise partly due to 'SNP incompetence', claims Anas Sarwar

The number of children accused of attempted murder in Scotland has risen significantly according to new figures from a Scottish Police Authority report.

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9 h. ago JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon breaks ranks with fellow execs and says he will ‘offer to help’ Mamdani

Progressive Democrat appears to be on course to become New York City’s next mayor

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4 d. ago JP Morgan warned US of $1bn in Epstein transactions possibly related to human trafficking

Bank says it alerted US of ‘suspicious’ transactions just weeks after paedophile was found dead in New York jail cellJP Morgan warned the US government about more than $1bn in transactions linked to Jeffrey Epstein that were possibly related to reports of human trafficking, new documents confirm.The largest bank in the US filed a suspicious activity report (SAR) in 2019, just weeks after Epstein was found dead in a New York jail cell, about transactions linked to the paedophile financier and prominent business figures. It also flagged wire transfers made by Epstein to Russian banks. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago JPMorgan Chase alerted Trump admin to over $1B in ‘suspicious’ transactions involving Epstein and prominent Wall Street figures: report

Over 4,700 transactions, including wire transfers to Russian banks raised red flags in 2019, new documents reveal

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4 d. ago Amazon reports higher sales and earnings for 3Q, helped by its accelerating computing arm business

Amazon posted higher fiscal third quarter profit and sales compared with a year ago, as the online giant kept attracting shoppers looking for good prices while inflation resurges

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4 d. ago Amazon reports strongest cloud growth since 2022 after major outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) sees 20% increase in revenue year over year, topping Wall Street estimatesAmazon has made its first financial disclosures since the disastrous outage suffered by its cloud computing division that brought everything from smart beds to banks offline.In spite of the global outage, Amazon Web Services has continued to grow, and this quarter reported a 20% increase in revenue year over year. Wall Street estimated that AWS would bring in $32.42bn in net sales in the third quarter, with the company reporting actual revenue of $33bn. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Meta reports mixed financial results amid spree of AI hiring and spending

Tech company brings in record quarterly revenue but major tax bill dampens earnings per shareMeta reported mixed financial results for the third quarter of 2025. The company brought in record quarterly revenue but reported a major tax bill that dampened earnings per share, the company announced on Wednesday. The financial results come as Meta ends a multibillion-dollar hiring spree focused on artificial intelligence talent.The tech giant earned $51.24bn in quarterly revenue, beating Wall Street expectations and the company’s own projections for third-quarter sales. However, it reported earnings per share (EPS) of $1.05, far below Wall Street expectations of $6.70 in EPS. The major drop was due to a one-time non-cash income tax charge of $15.93bn. The EPS would have been $7.25 without this one-time charge, the company said. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Microsoft's quarterly sales and profit surge, beating Wall Street expectations

Microsoft has reported an 18% increase in quarterly sales, reaching $77.7 billion

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6 d. ago Nvidia beats Apple and Microsoft to hit major milestone as most of Wall Street soars

The largest company in America has reached a remarkable new milestone.

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7 d. ago $100bn stock swings expose ‘fragility’ beneath Wall Street rally

Options and ETF frenzy have helped make largest US stocks more volatile, raising stakes ahead of Big Tech earnings

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8 d. ago A new start after 60: I got divorced and spent a year trying 70 new things – from pole

After a lifetime of thinking about others, Alese Johnston decided to put herself first. Adventurous and irresponsible, she’s happier than she has ever beenAlese Johnston was sitting on the couch one Sunday morning, reading the Wall Street Journal, when she came across an article by a 60-year-old writer who felt he’d become boring – always telling his friends the same stories. “I do that,” Johnston thought. “So a couple of weeks later, when I turned 70, I committed to doing 70 new things over the course of the year.”Johnston set up a website, Fabulous70.com. She made a spreadsheet, and started filling it with ideas. The only rule was: “It had to be something I’d never done before.” Her first “first” was to eat a nem – a type of spring roll – at a supper club where she lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.Tell us: has your life taken a new direction after the age of 60? Continue reading...

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1 week ago Government shutdown likely means no inflation data next month for 1st time in decades

The government shutdown likely means there won’t be an inflation report next month for the first time in more than seven decades, the White House said Friday, leaving Wall Street and the Federal Reserve without crucial information about consumer prices

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1 week ago Wall Street hits record highs after US inflation report fuels interest rate cut hopes – business live

US consumer prices rose by less than expected last month, as markets digest breakdown of trade talks with CanadaUS prices rose at a 3% annual rate in September, slightly beating forecastsNewsflash: Conditions appear to be improving in the UK economy this month.The latest poll of purchasing managers at British firms has found that growth is picking up after the lull in September, partly helped by the resumption of manufacturing at Jaguar Land Rover after its recent cyber attack.“October’s flash UK PMI survey brings hope that September was a low point for the economy from which business conditions are starting to improve.Output has picked up, with a particularly welcome return to growth for manufacturing for the first time in over a year accompanied by an upturn in demand for services, notably among consumers. Business confidence has also brightened slightly, job losses have moderated, and inflationary pressures are coming back to levels consistent with the Bank of England’s 2% target...

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1 week ago Financial advisors flogged a £400 million Caribbean property scam to pensioners 'like The Wolf of Wall Street'

Alan, 82, invested £100,000 and received no compensation. He told the podcast how he now 'struggles to make ends meet'.

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1 week ago The £99million Queen of Wall Street: British banker Jane Fraser handed bumper bonus as she becomes chairman of Citigroup

A British banker dubbed the Queen of Wall Street has landed a near-£19million bonus after tightening her grip on Citigroup.

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1 week ago Tesla reports steep drop in profits despite US rush to buy electric vehicles

Carmaker exceeded Wall Street’s expectations with more than $26bn in revenue, but saw a 37% drop in profitsDespite record vehicle sales, Tesla saw a precipitous drop in profit in its most recent quarter.A rush to buy electric vehicles before a US tax credit for them disappears had boosted Tesla’s flagging sales, leading to the automaker exceeding some of Wall Street’s projections in its most recent financial quarter. Yet the company failed to meet earnings expectations and its stock fell in after hours trading. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago CNN halted for breaking alert featuring a devastating blow for Donald Trump

CNN's live coverage was briefly interrupted as the reporter delivered a devastating blow following Donald Trump's meeting with Ukrainian leader Zelensky

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2 w. ago Memoir by Prince Andrew's and Epstein's accuser reignites a scandal that long dogged UK royals

Britain’s royal family is once again under intense scrutiny as a memoir by one of Prince Andrew and Jeffery Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Giuffre, hits bookstores

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2 w. ago Wall Street inches higher in premarket as worries over the U.S.

Wall Street pointed toward gains before the open Monday, overcoming worries over bank lending and the trade war with China

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2 w. ago ‘Disorder, fright and confusion’: looking back at the devastating Wall Street crash of 1929

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book 1929 takes readers back to the crash that changed the US and looks at what we can learn from it todayAndrew Ross Sorkin’s first book, Too Big to Fail, was a bestseller about the financial crisis of 2008, published the following year. His second, 1929, out this week, takes readers “Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How it Shattered a Nation”.It’s been 16 years between books, but Sorkin hasn’t been idle. A columnist for the New York Times, he founded its DealBook newsletter and summit; he’s a Squawk Box co-anchor for CNBC; and after Too Big to Fail was filmed by HBO, he co-created Billions, a huge hit for Showtime starring Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti. Continue reading...

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