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Wizz Air will be hit hardest by the jet fuel crisis impacting Europe’s airline industry, according to analysts at Morningstar — but Ryanair and British Airways owner International Consolidated Airlines Group could be best placed to weather the supply squeeze that threatens to upend the continent’s summer travel plans. Airlines with stronger margin buffers, better fuel hedging, and lower direct operational exposure to the Middle East are among those expected to best weather the looming travel turmoil, Loredana Muharremi, equity analyst at Morningstar, wrote in a note on Wednesday. “In Europe, that points to Ryanair among low-cost carriers and IAG…

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Boeing reported a smaller than expected loss for the first quarter, with improvements across its businesses, including its key commercial aircraft unit, as the manufacturer tries to stem years of losses.Here’s how Boeing performed in the first quarter, compared with analysts’ estimates compiled by LSEG:Loss per share: 20 cents adjusted vs. a loss of 83 cents expectedRevenue: $22.22 billion vs. $21.78 billion expectedSales rose 14% to $22.22 billion in the first three months of the year. The company narrowed its net loss in the first three months of the year to $7 million, or 11 cents a share, down from a loss of $31…

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For DBS CEO Tan Su Shan, the biggest risk keeping her up at night is not just market volatility or geopolitical shocks, but cyberattacks.”Cyber security. I think the new war is cyber. So what keeps me awake at night is cyber. It’s who’s going to attack who, and how it’s going to happen, how people will get affected,” the chief executive of DBS told CNBC on the sidelines of its annual CONVERGE LIVE event in Singapore. Her warning underscores a broader shift in how financial institutions are thinking about risk, as cyber threats become increasingly intertwined with geopolitics and rapid advances…

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Bond investors are exacting a heavy price from three of Europe’s largest economies, which are struggling with a credibility crisis as the Iran conflict thrusts government borrowing back into the spotlight.”Britain, Italy and France have now become nations where spreads to what we’d call core nations — such as the U.S. and German government bonds — have been widening where there’s been concerns about inflation and how effectively these sovereigns play their way out of it,” said Craig Inches, head of rates and cash at Royal London Asset Management.Collectively dubbed the ‘BIFs’ — a throwback nod to the so-called ‘PIIGS’…

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Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., arrives for the House Energy and Commerce markup of the FY2025 budget resolution in Rayburn building on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesTwo data privacy bills set to be introduced Wednesday and shared first with CNBC would preempt nearly two dozen state laws to create a national standard limiting how tech and finance companies handle user data. The bills — the SECURE Data Act, which focuses on technology companies and the GUARD Financial Data Act that focuses on financial services businesses – are designed to work together to form a…

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the carriers’ lawyer, “Your argument is that you don’t have the right to invoke a jury trial unless the government comes after you in terms of the enforcement proceeding, and I’m really struggling with why you aren’t happy that the government is not coming after you. If the government is abandoning its claim by not seeking enforcement of it, I don’t know why you would need the right to a jury trial, and why isn’t that a good thing for you?” Wall argued that when a company’s primary regulator “tells us we owe $100 million……

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USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) conducts U.S. blockade operations related to the Strait of Hormuz on April 16, 2026 in the Arabian Sea.Handout | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesTwo cargo ships were attacked in the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, authorities said Wednesday, after the U.S. extended the ceasefire and as diplomats seek to bring the U.S. and Iran together for peace talks.A vessel reported being fired upon about eight nautical miles off the coast of Iran, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, or UKMTO, center said at 8:38 London time (3:38 a.m. ET), which also warned of “high…

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