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"The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops. Today's guests: Vincent Mortier, Amundi Chief Investment Officer; Benedetta Berti Secretary General of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Katie Koch CEO & President, TCW; Richard Clarida, former Fed Vice-Chair & Global Economic Advisor to Pimco; Vanessa Holtz, Bank of America France Head & Bofa Securities Europe CEO. (Source: Bloomberg)...

US stock futures extended a decline Thursday after intensifying war in the Middle East and inflation risks leave investors jittery about what's to come....

Over the past three weeks, dozens of refineries, oil fields, gas plants, ports and other energy infrastructure have been damaged by missile and drone strikes in the Arabian Gulf....

S&P 500 Index futures are down 0.4% as of 7:45 a.m. in New York after the latest escalation in the Middle East, with Israel and Iran trading strikes on energy facilities....

India's maximum power demand is expected to reach 459 gigawatts by the end of the decade, accompanied by a dramatic growth in generation and storage capacity, according to the power ministry....

French top-tier football club Olympique Lyonnais is facing a $63 million legal claim to pay back debt linked to the transfer of Brazilian star Igor Jesus, putting yet more scrutiny on the team's finances and ownership structure....

A Polymarket contract on whether Iran would strike Israel on March 10 was designed to forecast the future. Instead, more than 90% of the betting volume on the prediction market came after the fact, as users attempted to profit from a dispute that hinged on the source of a single blast....

Saudi Aramco briefly halted crude loadings at the crucial Red Sea port of Yanbu on Thursday following an Iranian attack in the vicinity, according to people familiar with the matter....

Crypto exchange Crypto.com said it is axing around 12% of its workforce, citing a need to adapt its business to rising artificial intelligence capabilities....

The number of residential mortgage products available in the UK has dropped to the lowest in more than seven months....

The Swiss National Bank uses a whole range of indicators to judge whether the franc has strengthened too far, according to President Martin Schlegel....

Philippe Aghion, who jointly won the 2025 Nobel Prize for economics, says Europe must do more to foster innovation and stop leaning on other parts of the world for technological advancement. The continent has been a "Sleeping Beauty" over the past 30 or 40 years, the French economist told Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Nonexistent. Marginal. Not material. Almost zero. That's how many European bank chiefs reacted when pressed on their exposure to private credit, an industry grappling with concerns over loan quality and an investor exodus....

Europe is burning more coal as the surge in natural gas prices forces utilities to switch to cheaper fuels to keep the lights on....

The arid Persian Gulf is hardly the world's breadbasket. Yet the conflict in the region is sending shockwaves through the global food industry — from growers to packaging firms and distributors — with major implications for food security and living standards....

China's government spending got off to its fastest start to any year since 2022, likely an effort by authorities to fortify the economy in the face of rising external uncertainty....

FedEx Corp. opened 2026 on a tear, as the stock raced ahead on rosy views of the US economy. But with the war in Iran threatening to crimp growth, the delivery giant's earnings report after the bell on Thursday represents a test of Wall Street's faith in economic resilience....

One of Brazil's biggest brokerage firms is launching a fund to buy distressed assets as the nation's corporate defaults reach record levels....

One of the US stock market's biggest winners this year has turned into the worst-hit sector since the start of the Iran War as a spike in oil prices has boosted industrial production costs....