US stock-index futures fell before the bell on Thursday as traders awaited developments in the Middle East and pored over corporate earnings. https://t.co/Llcerxemhv ...

President Donald Trump ordered the US Navy to shoot any boat putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz and vowed to step up efforts to clear the critical energy waterway. https://t.co/zkCCvaKcRE ...

EU leaders are meeting in Cyprus for a two-day summit, but while Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy will join them, Hungary’s outgoing prime minister Viktor Orban has decided to skip his final EU gathering https://t.co/UyOHT8x9eK ...

Kenya’s leader is banking on a sweeping infrastructure investment program to help him win a second term next year. https://t.co/WSN0ps46d3 ...

Infosys expects sales growth for this year below analysts’ estimates https://t.co/hOnCFIcLF3 ...

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains largely frozen, with only occasional movements of Iran-linked vessels breaking the lull. https://t.co/RrktWpURiR ...

Barclays said cash looks to have been “fraudulently circulated” around Market Financial Solutions' network of companies “on a massive scale,” as creditors to the collapsed mortgage firm try to track down missing funds. https://t.co/sSrbXg5SKr ...

The US Justice Department reclassified state-regulated marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a major shift that could help dramatically increase legal cannabis sales in the coming years. https://t.co/QygN1XqilI ...

After years weighing how to dive deeper into private credit, JPMorgan's $4.3 trillion asset manager is committing to a strategy that will plow tens of billions of dollars into loans sourced by the firm’s commercial bankers. https://t.co/sbQUUpZlk2 ...

Polluted rain fell on Russia’s Black Sea city of Tuapse as authorities struggle to extinguish a blaze at local oil facilities following a drone attack, highlighting the environmental effects from the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/UATUcWqHbq ...