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Mostly reassuring financial results from Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) included one concerning sign for social media companies: Its YouTube service posted its second difficult quarter in a row. Quarterly ad sales at the world’s biggest video sharing service grew at the Read more
Australian investment bank Macquarie Group (MQG.AX) flagged a higher quarterly profit on Thursday and said all its business units felt the headwinds of inflation and market volatility but its diversified structure would still bring opportunities. Macquarie did not give first-quarter Read more
Netflix Inc’s (NFLX.O) streaming services were back up after facing a brief disruption across all devices, the company said on Wednesday evening. At its peak, there were more than 1,300 incidents of people reporting issues with Netflix, according to outage-tracking Read more
Asia-focused lenders HSBC (HSBA.L), Standard Chartered (STAN.L) and their Southeast Asian peers such as DBS (DBSM.SI) are set to report an improvement in second-quarter net interest income, a key source of revenue, benefiting from higher interest rates. But analysts warn Read more
Spotify Technology SA’s (SPOT.N) Car Thing player is now a thing of the past. The world’s leading audio streaming service on Wednesday announced it would discontinue the device just five months after it became available to all users in the Read more
El Salvador will dedicate $560 million in funds to a surprise bond buyback plan, its finance minister said on Wednesday, as the impoverished country looks to ease worries about the state of its public finances. El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele Read more
Consumer-focused firms are seeing no shortage of demand despite the soaring cost-of-living, prompting several to upgrade sales forecasts for the current year, though questions remain about how long that will last. While some consumers are shielding themselves from price hikes Read more