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U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersNATO will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on defense in the coming years, its Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged thousands of new troops to its eastern flank. Speaking to reporters ahead of a NATO meeting in Helsingborg, Sweden, on Friday, Rutte said “the money is really coming in,” with allies “committing more and more.”Last year, NATO member states agreed to raise…

An Estee Lauder Cos. concession in the beauty department inside the John Lewis Partnership Plc department store on Oxford Street in London, UK, on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEstée Lauder’s shares were up almost 10% in premarket trading after talks over a potential merger with Spanish beauty group Puig were “terminated.”The British beauty giant, which owns the Clinique and Tom Ford Beauty brands and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, said in March that it was in discussions with Puig, the owner of Charlotte Tilbury and Jean Paul Gaultier, to combine the companies.But…

A view of the Syncrude refinery at its Mildred Lake facility, which has a capacity of bitumen conversion to synthetic crude oil of 350,000 barrels per day, in the Wood Buffalo municipality of Alberta, Canada, on May 5, 2026.Daphne Lemelin | Afp | Getty ImagesAlberta Premier Danielle Smith has announced plans for the oil-rich province to hold a non-binding vote in the fall on whether its residents wish to remain a part of Canada — or move ahead with a second binding vote on separation. The move marks the first time in Canadian history that a province other than Quebec…

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Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Thursday’s key moments. 1. Stocks fell Thursday as U.S. oil prices climbed back above $100 a barrel. Optimism faded on an Iran peace deal after reports that Iran’s supreme leader would not allow the country’s enriched uranium to be shipped abroad . Treasury yields moved higher as investors worried that elevated energy prices could reignite inflation. Jim Cramer said, “Everything was looking real good, and then suddenly what happens? Oil goes up.” On Nvidia , Jim said he…

The Green Party had announced Chris Kennedy withdrew as candidate for “personal and family reasons”. Source link

The European Central Bank would be making “a big mistake” by hiking interest rates in a bid to combat inflation, according to one senior economist, who warns that such a move risks tipping the continent into recession.Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg, said Europe’s key “big three” economies — Germany, France and Italy — have been weakened by the recent spike in energy costs, leading to a stagflationary environment on the continent. Butm with new PMI data indicating weakening employment and demand drivers, Schmieding said that demand destruction should “take care” of the inflation part of the stagflation picture, as…

SUZHOU, China — Li Chenggang, China’s international trade representative, opened the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministers’ meeting on Friday with a call for regional economies to “send a strong message to the world” in support of cooperation. Li said he was chairing the opening meeting in place of China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, who had “urgent official business,” according to a CNBC translation of his remarks in Chinese.China’s Commerce Ministry and APEC did not immediately respond to CNBC requests for comment.Li is a full minister in his role as the trade representative, and also serves as China’s vice commerce minister.The…

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NASA confirmed Thursday that the Russian segment of the International Space Station has begun leaking atmosphere into space again. It’s an old problem that NASA recently hoped was resolved. For more than half a decade, engineers from Roscosmos and NASA have been tracking the leak rate from a small Russian module attached to the space station that leads to a docking port. The source of these leaks, microscopic structural cracks, have been difficult to find and address. In January, NASA said that after multiple inspections and sealant applications, the pressure inside this segment, known as the PrK module, had reached…