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Europe's junk-debt sales for bonds and loans surged as firms took advantage of easing geopolitical tensions after US President Donald Trump abandoned his Greenland-linked tariff threats....

Wizz Air Holdings Plc's UK subsidiary applied for permission to fly to the US, months after the budget carrier's plans to expand in the Middle East fell through....

Kenya, the world's largest exporter of black tea, is ramping up production of orthodox teas, which fetch higher prices and are seeing rising demand....

The dollar extends its selloff on Monday as speculation swirled that the US could coordinate intervention with Japanese authorities to support the yen. Traders are on heightened alert for authorities intervening in Japan as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says the government is ready to take action. Continued global uncertainty drives gold beyond $5,000-an-ounce. Natural Gas prices soar on both sides of the Atlantic with freezing weather sweeping across much of the US, boosting heating demand and disrupting supplies. The Opening Trade has everything you need to know as markets open across Europe. With analysis you won't find anywhere else, we break down the biggest stories of the day and speak to top guests who have skin in the game. Hosted by Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson and Tom Mackenzie. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s head of precious metals trading Benjamin Binet-Laisne is leaving the bank, according to people familiar with the matter....

Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence chips, invested an additional $2 billion in CoreWeave Inc. to help speed up an effort to add more than 5 gigawatts of AI computing capacity by 2030....

Kazakhstan's largest oil producer is preparing to resume output at the giant Tengiz field, a further step to normalize the nation's supply to global markets after a series of disruptions in recent months....

UniCredit SpA is planning to issue two significant risk transfers tied to around €5 billion ($6 billion) of loans, according to people familiar with the matter....

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. has brought in Jon Connor and Thibaud de Maria as part of a hiring wave of senior investment bankers, said people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because it wasn't public yet....

From Venezuela to Iran, an increasingly turbulent world is pushing up the costs of hauling crude....

Wells Fargo & Co. hired Faraz Shafiq from Amazon Web Services to oversee the bank's adoption of artificial intelligence products and help make operations more efficient....

Forgent Power Solutions Inc., a designer and manufacturer of electrical equipment used in data centers, is seeking to raise as much as $1.62 billion in its initial public offering....

Demand for exchange-traded products focused on European equities was so strong in 2025 that they attracted a “decade in a year” of inflows, according to BlackRock Inc.'s Ursula Marchioni....

USA Rare Earth Inc. signed a non-binding agreement with the Commerce Department to receive $1.6 billion in funding to accelerate US production of key rare-earth elements....

Oil traders seeking to plot the path for prices this year are juggling sharply different assessments of the supply-demand outlook, from a huge surplus to a broadly balanced market....

The dollar extends its selloff as the yen strengthens amid speculation of a coordinated US-Japan intervention. Precious metals miners gain as gold tops $5,000. A US government shutdown risk rises as Republican lawmakers dismiss Democrats' demands to split off funding for the Department of Homeland Security following a second killing of a US citizen during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Travel disruptions linger and power grids brace for unprecedented seasonal demand after the heaviest winter storm in the east coast in years. Sonja Marten of DZ Bank discusses the debasement trade. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Norway has indicted two people and a wholly-owned subsidiary of PetroNor E&P ASA for allegedly paying bribes in the Republic of Congo....

Not long ago, Nikshep Saravanan was deep in the crypto trenches — trading memecoins, reaching out to venture capitalists, and trying to launch a startup for digital creators. By January, he'd dropped it all. These days, he spends hours on prediction markets, tracking odds on everything from sports to politics....

Health care technology startup Tandem Technology Inc., which aims to smooth the process of writing and receiving medical prescriptions using artificial intelligence, has reached a valuation of $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter....

Debut funding for startups has exploded, spurring the need for a new label....