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Hapag-Lloyd reported sharply lower underlying earnings and an operating loss for the fourth quarter after revenue more than halved, hit by a steep drop in freight rates.

Diageo said profit for the first half of fiscal 2024 fell, dragged by sharply lower revenue in Latin America and the Caribbean, while organic net sales dropped 0.6%, missing its expectations of flat growth.

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Aramco said it has been ordered by the Saudi government to keep its oil production capacity at 12 million barrels a day.

An Australian news network has apologised after a picture of a female MP was allegedly modified to appear more revealing ahead of her appearance on a programme.

Spain’s BBVA said it would buy back €781 million of shares after its fourth-quarter net profit climbed, taking its full-year result to a new record and despite a drop in net interest income.

Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C., gave data to The New York Times and ProPublica between 2018 and 2020 in leaks that appeared to be “unparalleled in the IRS’s history,” prosecutors said. (Image credit: Susan Walsh/AP)