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  Bloomberg Britain’s soaring wage inflation is likely to push the Bank of England (BOE) to another sharp increase in interest rates this week. Investors and economists expect the UK central bank to raise its key rate a half point to 4% on February 2. That would mark the highest since 2008 and the quickest string of hikes in three ...

  Bloomberg Colombia’s central bank slowed the pace of monetary tightening and signalled that interest rate rises are nearing an end as the economy’s growth outlook dims. The bank lifted its benchmark rate by three quarters of a percentage point to 12.75%, governor Leonardo Villar told reporters after the meeting. Five of the seven-member board voted for the move, while ...

Bloomberg American Express Co. (AmEx) jumped the most in more than two years after the credit-card giant predicted that revenue and earnings for this year will surge well above what analysts estimated. While total volume on AmEx’s network increased less than expected in the final three months of last year, the record number of new cardholders AmEx added in 2022 should ...

  Bloomberg As layoffs at technology and finance firms in the US have piled up, their executives have talked at length about the need to cut costs in a challenging economic environment. At some of the biggest firms, the same austerity measures are also being applied in the C-suite. David Solomon, the chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., ...

  Bloomberg Having zipped from six-figure sedans to Costco-crushing SUVs, electrification is finally zeroing in on the auto industry’s most esoteric form: the tiny pickup truck. At least two major carmakers are considering adding small, battery-powered pickups to their growing parade of EVs. At General Motors Co., spokesman Stuart Fowle says a pint-sized pickup is one of several electric options ...

  Bloomberg Global smartphone shipments suffered their worst quarterly drop on record in a clear sign of cooling consumer demand that signals more pain for manufacturing hubs like South Korea and Vietnam. Shipments declined 18.3% in the December 2022 quarter compared to a year earlier, to a little over 300 million units, Needham, Massachusetts-based IDC said. For the year, shipments ...

  Bloomberg Hyundai Motor Co. will invest 10.5 trillion won ($8.5 billion) over the course of 2023, according to an exchange filing, as it moves to electrify more of its fleet to sate rising consumer demand for cleaner cars. The money will be spent primarily on research and development and on building a new plant in Georgia, the Seoul-based automaker ...

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp is investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI), but don’t expect the magic of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to show up in its signature Word program quite yet. The software giant announced a $10 billion investment in OpenAI, whose AI tool ChatGPT is trained on troves of data to generate human-like responses to prompts in seconds. Microsoft plans to ...

Bloomberg Oil rose along with many other commodities as optimism over Chinese demand countered concerns over a global economic slowdown. West Texas Intermediate increased as much as 1.5% on Friday, and were heading for a third straight weekly gain. Trafigura group sees “a lot of upside” for oil markets as pent-up demand is unleashed, esp cially as Chinese consumption rebounds. ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM “Extreme Weekends” has started at the Sheikh Zayed Festival in Al Wathba area. Attended by an intense crowd, the annual event is set to become another hit for visitors this year. The first day of the show welcomed motor cross and car drifting sports fans with impressive stunts and routines performed by international motorcyclists and ...