(Reuters) -The European Union said on Saturday it was ready to retaliate to defend its interests if the United States pressed ahead with imposing a 30% tariff on European goods from August 1. U.S. President Donald Trump latest salvo surprised the bloc, the United States’ largest trading partner, which had hoped to avoid an escalating...

Chances are you have donated to a friend or relative’s GoFundMe campaign. The crowdfunding platform lets people raise money through fundraisers for personal financial needs like medical bills, or to help give a child who has lost a parent with an education fund. Last week, the platform rolled out a more formalized way to be...

(Reuters) -Google has agreed to pay about $2.4 billion in a deal to license the technology of artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool Windsurf, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Earlier on Friday, a Google spokesperson told Reuters that the company has hired...

(Reuters) -Alphabet’s Google has hired several key staff members from AI code generation startup Windsurf, a Google spokesperson said on Friday, in a surprise move following an attempt by its rival OpenAI to acquire the startup. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and select members of the coding tool’s research and development team will...

(Reuters) -U.S. equity funds saw a significant drop in net investments in the week through July 9 on caution over President Donald Trump’s threats of fresh tariffs on trading partners, even though stocks surged to new records on rising demand in the artificial intelligence sector. Investors acquired just $2.1 billion worth of U.S. equity funds...

(Reuters) -Global equity funds drew inflows for a second consecutive week in the seven days to July 9, boosted by a rally in AI-linked stocks and expectations that pushing the U.S. tariff rollout to August could positively affect ongoing trade talks. Investors purchased a net $10.21 billion in global equity funds during the week to...

(Reuters) -U.S.-listed cryptocurrency stocks rose in premarket trading on Friday as bitcoin surged to a record high on growing optimism that regulatory hurdles would soon begin to ease. The upbeat sentiment is a result of court rulings and policy signals suggesting a shift toward clearer oversight instead of outright crackdowns, which had led to years-long...

By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets Although markets are trying to shrug off the week’s U.S. tariff threats as yet another negotiation tactic, there’s growing unease at the daily barrage, the latest being a 35% tariff on Canadian goods and...

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese stocks jumped on Friday, supported by the dollar’s surge against the yen, after a U.S. trade deal with Britain fuelled hopes of progress in tariff talks with other countries. Bitcoin soared to the highest since January and U.S. crude ticked up after a more than 3% surge on...