- Yahoo Finance
DOJ widens antitrust crackdown as it seeks a breakup of Live Nation
Prosecutors argue Live Nation used its Ticketmaster ticketing monopoly to suppress competition, the latest in several actions to rein in the power of big corporations across America.
- Reuters
Analysis-As questions grow for Germany, investors warm to France
Cuts to French business tax rates, help from local officials ready to go out of their way to identify sites for business expansion and even new wiggle room in notoriously rigid labour rules are making France a proposition hard to turn down, group chairman Daniel Hager told Reuters. Seven years of pro-business reforms under President Emmanuel Macron have helped rebalance economic relations between the euro zone's two biggest economies. Gone are the days when foreign investors would baulk at France's high taxes and 35-hour work week, compared with Germany's 40 hours, and France is also seeing record levels of foreign direct investment.
- Associated Press
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is betting that calmer economic conditions will get him re-elected
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has portrayed himself as thorough and evidence-led. The main opposition Labour Party is widely seen to be ahead of the Conservatives, who have been in power since 2010. Sunak became prime minister in October 2022, when he replaced his predecessor Truss and pitched himself as a stable pair of hands after Truss roiled financial markets with a botched plan of unfunded tax cuts.
