How EU is strengthening steel market protection and what Ukraine should do

On 7 October, the European Commission officially released a draft of a new regulation, COM(2025)726 (Proposal for a regulation of the European parliament and if the Council addressing the negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on...

The Nordics Have Low Inequality Mostly Because of Welfare

In one part of a rather ambitious article in the Journal of Economic Literature’s September issue, Norwegian economists Magne Mogstad, Kjell Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik attempt to identify the causes of the relative income equality enjoyed by...

Noble and Kongsberg set ‘transformative pilot’ in motion aboard 2014-built rig

Noble Corporation, a U.S.-based offshore drilling giant, has put into play a new pilot program aboard its 11-year-old drillship in collaboration with Kongsberg Maritime, a Norway-headquartered marine technology player. Noble Sam Croft drillship;...

Israeli army arrests 35 Palestinians across occupied West Bank, demolishes home

Israeli army forces detained 35 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank since last night, according to a rights group. The Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement that the army launched a mass arrest campaign across the West Bank,...

Norwegian self-adjusting mooring buoy set to ease solar-hydro integration

Oslo-headquartered Fred. Olsen 1848 has unveiled its Tension Buoy concept, designed to maintain stable mooring tension for floating solar installations in reservoirs and hydropower dams with large water-level variations. Tension Buoy installed in...

10 (More) Years of Shudder: What’s Next for the Scariest Brand in the Indie Film Business?

Sam Zimmerman is known for his impeccable and calculating taste. But as Shudder‘s senior vice president of programming and acquisitions, the 37-year-old horror movie devotee still takes care to hunt from the heart. An authentic genre film buff —...

How Norway’s 2026 budget could save (or cost) families money

Families with young children could make significant savings on their monthly costs under the proposed 2026 budget, but there may also be some added expenses. In the draft 2026 budget, which was presented on Wednesday, Norway’s government is...

It’s now or never for EU-wide company status

The final months of 2025 will be the “tipping point” that determines whether the European Commission’s plans for a new EU-wide company status are a success, according to one of the policy’s most prominent advocates. The Commission will present its...

Bank of Uganda unveils SupTech initiative to ‘modernise financial sector supervision’

The Bank of Uganda has launched a supervisory technology (‘SupTech’) initiative as the authority looks to ‘modernise financial sector supervision’. SupTech is the application of innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine...

World Bank pins hope on private sector as savage aid cuts bite

Low income countries and development finance organisations are scrambling to find ways to make up for devastating cuts to official development assistance by the world’s leading donors. For the first time for nearly 30 years, four of the biggest...

PIP claimants who go abroad for this amount of time could face a penalty

Kieran Isgin Money & Lifestyle writer 13:35, 02 Nov 2025 You could be penalised for going on holiday(Image: Getty Images) People claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP) could be at risk of facing a penalty if they decide to go abroad for an...

Futures Rise After Strong Earnings Ease Trade War Fears

US equity futures are again higher due a combination of softening trade rhetoric, a dovish Powell who reassured markets that another rate cut was coming, and solid results from BofA and Morgan Stanley. While cooking oil has become the latest...

Carbon Tracker Roundtable for Norwegian Pension Funds on the “The Under-pricing of Climate Damages in the Financial System – How can we Align Pension Fund Investment Decisions with Climate Science?”

Climate change is no longer a distant threat— it’s a present and intensifying risk to the global financial system. During a roundtable convened by Carbon Tracker and CICERO held on 3 June 2025, experts, scientists, and financial stakeholders...

Global Drone Market Expected Reach $95 Billion By 2034 As Drone Operations Across The World Take Flight - Financial News Media

(MENAFN- Financial News Media) data-id="165ecfe1" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content"> Palm Beach, FL – October 15, 2025 – The drone market encompasses the manufacturing and operations of drones across various sectors...

Absa Bank South Africa Partners With Ripple For Crypto Custody Solutions

(MENAFN- Crypto Breaking) Ripple , a leading provider of blockchain infrastructure solutions and a key developer of XRP , has announced a strategic partnership with South African banking giant Absa. The collaboration aims to introduce digital...

Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon marks 200 years of organized emigration to US

Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon is photographed outside of a NVIDIA office in Santa Clara, Calif on April 16, 2024. (AP) MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 7, (AP): Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon is marking the 200th anniversary of organized emigration from his...

Israeli army arrests 24 Palestinians across occupied West Bank, demolishes home

RAMALLAH, Palestine/ISTANBUL Israeli security forces detained on Thursday as many as 24 Palestinians, including a child and an official, in the occupied West Bank, witnesses and officials said. Witnesses told Anadolu that the Israeli army arrested...

2025 China-Nordic Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum held in Wuhan, C China's Hubei

The 2025 China-Nordic Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum was held from Oct. 14 to 16, 2025 in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. A highlight of the forum, an exhibition, displayed more than 300 premium products from over 20 well-known...

Tesla May Lose Key Norway Advantage As Government Proposes To Cut EV Tax Benefits

Authorities in Norway have proposed to revise incentives offered on EVs, in what could be a potential setback for Tesla Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TSLA) European goals as sales decline in the region. Check out the current price of TSLA here. ‘The Goal Has...

Partnership Studies 10: Partnership Systems, Caring Economics, and Human Rights

Riane Eisler, an Austrian-born American systems scientist, futurist, and human rights advocate, is renowned for her influential work on cultural transformation and gender equity. Best known for The Chalice and the Blade, she introduced the...