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Prediction markets tout themselves as “truth machines,” but trading data shows a lot of casino-like bets.

Canada's Weston family to purchase UK's Boots in $8.9B deal with Sycamore Partners

Accelerates Intermap’s technology roadmap into distributed edge processing and microservices, extending proven and secure AI/ML analytics across thousands of autonomous geospatial workflows

Braskem’s creditors shunned another restructuring proposal made by the company and its shareholders ahead of a key Oct. 9 deadline for a deal to rework some $11 billion of debt, people familiar with the matter said.

Plague is one of history’s most feared diseases, responsible for pandemics that killed tens of millions of people. Today, human cases are rare and can usually be treated with antibiotics. A suspected case of pneumonic plague in Siberia has renewed attention on the disease after a young worker at a R

Slowdown comes as higher borrowing costs and economic uncertainty are damping buyer demand, survey finds

Peru unexpectedly left borrowing costs unchanged for a 13th straight month as policymakers expect a recent acceleration in inflation to prove temporary.

Gold traded near a nine-week low as fresh tensions in the Strait of Hormuz heightened war-driven inflation concerns and investors weighed prospects for at least one more US rate hike this year.

LG Energy Solution Ltd. reported preliminary third-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates by more than double as the South Korean battery maker benefited from US manufacturing incentives and surging demand for energy-storage systems.

Philippine bonds, the worst-performing in emerging markets since the Iran war began, are set for further losses as faster inflation, a sliding peso and softer auction demand weigh on sentiment, strategists say.