July 27, 2026

Singing sensation Cher will be forced to pay the $1 million in legal fees that she incurred during a bitter legal battle against the widow of her ex-husband Sonny Bono.

“Ransom Canyon” star Josh Duhamel has officially closed on the sale of his Los Angeles home, selling the picturesque property for more than his asking price.

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund will manage its assets solely in the long-term interest of its beneficiaries, its leader said Monday, an apparent pushback at suggestions from the prime minister and members of her cabinet that GPIF increase investments in domestic assets.

French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said wildfires in the southwest are a major economic setback for the region as businesses and tourists were forced to evacuate.

SoftBank Corp. is getting closer to acquiring SP.LINKS Inc. after securing preferred bidder status for Blackstone Inc.’s payments service provider, people familiar with the matter said.

The birth of national market liberalism.

It’s pretty obvious by now that globalization has fallen out of favor. And while many pundits have deemed economic globalism dead, we are still figuring out what to call this new era. Branko Milanovic’s chosen phrase is “national market liberalism,” a term that sums up how a world once defined by the free movement of capital has begun to contract as the most powerful governments have come to favor mercantilism and nationalism. In his new book, The Great Global Transformation: The United States,

AT&T Inc. has opened books on a at least €2 billion ($2.23 billion) euro and sterling bond offering, injecting a large corporate deal into what’s a traditionally subdued period for Europe’s primary market.