Emma Powell
Acting Energy Editor at The Times
Acting energy editor at The Times [email protected]
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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | Emma Powell
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6 days ago |
thetimes.com | Emma Powell
America’s largest technology companies have been struck by two seismic developments in less than six months as the emergence of Deepseek, the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up, and tariff wars have sent tremors through markets. Yet Meta Platforms is seemingly unfazed. The owner of Facebook and Instagram last week reported first-quarter results that beat Wall Street expectations and outlined plans to boost its spending on building out its AI infrastructure.
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thetimes.com | Emma Powell
Vodafone’s finance chief has quit to lead Germany’s largest landlord, as the telecommunications giant prepares to finalise the merger of its domestic business with Three. Luka Mucic will step down by the end of this year at the earliest to become chief executive of Vonovia SE. The German executive was appointed as Vodafone’s finance chief in September 2023, as a permanent replacement for Margherita Della Valle, who became the FTSE 100 group’s first female chief executive.
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thetimes.com | Emma Powell
The world’s largest offshore wind farm developer has halted work on a major project in the North Sea less than a year after securing government support, blaming higher costs and potential delays. Orsted said that it had decided not to proceed with Hornsea 4, which the company said would be capable of powering 2.6 million homes, after a rise in supply chain costs, a sharp rise in interest rates and the risk that it would fail to complete the project on time.
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thetimes.com | Emma Powell |Helen Cahill
Investors in Britain dumped bonds at the second highest rate on record as tariff wars raised expectations of an emergency US interest rate cut and cash was raised to meet margin calls caused by market turmoil. Just over £1.2 billion was pulled from fixed income funds in April, according to data from Calastone, the global funds network, the fastest pace since the early days of the pandemic in April 2020.
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