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Crédit Agricole a fait mieux que prévu au deuxième trimestre tout comme BNP Paribas et Société Générale. Crédit Agricole SA, l’entité cotée du géant mutualiste, a enregistré un résultat net part du groupe de 2,05 milliards d’euros en hausse de 1,4 % sur un an, surpassant les attentes des analystes interrogés par Bloomberg. Les revenus ont progressé de 7,7 %, pour atteindre 7,3 milliards, là aussi au-delà des anticipations. Pris dans son ensemble (en incluant Crédit Agricole SA et les Caisses régionales) le groupe a généré 2,77 milliards de profits (+22,4 %) d’avril à juin. L’action a gagné 2,61 % vendredi.« Ces bons résultats nous permettent de continuer…

Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man in Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.”SonySpider-Man is already webbing up a massive box-office haul.Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” secured $72 million in preview ticket sales, the highest collection for any domestic film in Hollywood history. The previous record holder was 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” which tallied $60 million ahead of its opening weekend.”The demand for ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ is nothing short of astonishing,” said Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Rentrak. “For a film to earn more than $70 million in pre-shows is unprecedented, and it reflects massive enthusiasm…

Brazil remains a good old-fashioned emerging market play, while volatile semiconductor manufacturers distort Asian stock indices. Financials make up 40% of the MSCI Brazil stock market index, with energy and materials combined accounting for nearly 30%. The Ibovespa index enjoyed a thrilling spring as global investors looked for a hedge against surging commodity prices.While Brazil does import some refined oil products, it is a net exporter of crude oil, say Alex Nae and Tae Yoon Kim for FTSE Russell Insights. The FTSE Brazil stock market index returned 47.2% last year. It rallied at the start of 2026, but remains attractively…

Pigeon CEO Ryo Yano poses holding one of the company’s baby bottles. Since entering China in 2002, its operating profit from the market has come to account for more than 60% of total earnings. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)Big in AsiaCEO seeks fresh growth engine as birth rate in biggest market hits record low

According to the Zillow lender marketplace, mortgage rates continue to have more room to fall following this week’s Fed meeting, which left the federal funds rate unchanged. The average 30-year fixed rate today, Friday, July 31, 2026, is 6.55%, down 10 basis points since yesterday. The 15-year fixed loan is currently at 6.03%, 4 basis points lower than yesterday. The 5/1 ARM is 6.42%, 16 basis points lower than on Thursday. Read more: Weekly survey of mortgage lenders with the lowest rates: Pushing higher Current mortgage rates Here are the current purchase rates, according to the latest Zillow data, for Friday,…

For months, Amazon would not say whether it planned to seek a refund on the tariffs President Donald Trump imposed under emergency powers. In May, that silence became a legal problem when consumers filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in Seattle, arguing they were owed refunds for paying tariff-inflated prices and alleging the company wasn’t seeking refunds in order to “curry favor” with Trump. On Thursday evening, CFO Brian Olsavsky disclosed the company received $600 million in tariff refunds during the second quarter and pledged to automatically issue reimbursements to consumers under a “limited set of circumstances.” “We are…

Anthropic has recruited Monzo cofounder and ex-CEO Tom Blomfield to join its AI compute team. The US-based tech giant, valued at $965bn in May, has been on a global hiring spree in recent months, opening new offices across Europe and offering bumper pay packages for engineering talent. Blomfield announced the move on X on Monday, saying he would take a leave of absence from startup accelerator Y Combinator, where he has been a group partner since 2021.”I’ll be working with [Anthropic cofounder] Tom Brown on the compute team,” Blomfield wrote on social media platform X. “Powerful AI has the potential to improve…

The second quarter of this year was the largest-ever monetisation quarter in KKR’s history with realised performance income of $848 million. Exits were diversified across strategies, regions and exit types with return multiples ranging from 2x to 20x invested capital, the firm reported in its latest quarterly results on Thursday.

Shares of industrial gas giant Linde dropped Friday despite reporting better-than-expected profits and sales. Linde remains a quiet beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom, but problems facing part of its healthcare business are drowning out those benefits in the final trading session of the week. Our faith in Linde is unshaken, so Friday’s pullback looks more like a buying opportunity than a reason to head for the exits. Revenue in the second quarter ended June 30 rose 9.3% to $9.29 billion, surpassing the $8.99 billion consensus, according to LSEG. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) totaled $4.50, beating the LSEG consensus…

There are layers to freedom, and most of us only ever peel back two. The first layer is breaking free from your parents. Some people manage it the summer after high school. Others are still depending on dad to pay their new credit card charges at 37. The second layer is breaking free from work. We call it FIRE, or traditional retirement. Once you generate enough passive income to cover your living expenses, you never have to answer to a bad boss again. My definition is stricter than most because I don’t want to touch principal until at least 60.…