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n a desperate move to rejuvenate public support and stimulate the economy amidst sluggish growth and mounting public debt, the British government has unveiled a series of tax cuts.

Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is facing a bleak outlook for 2024, as it struggles with the fallout of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, labor shortages and weak global demand.

Reddit, the popular online forum where millions of users post, comment and vote on a variety of topics, has signed a lucrative deal to sell its vast trove of user-generated content to an unnamed artificial intelligence company

The sale, which took place on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8, is part of a plan that Bezos announced last week to sell up to 50 million shares of Amazon over the next year, with an estimated market value of $8.4 billion.

PayPal Holdings, the digital payments giant, said on Tuesday that it would cut about 2,500 jobs, or 9 percent of its global workforce, this year, as it faces increasing pressure from competitors and rising costs.

Despite reporting strong earnings growth for the fourth quarter of 2023, Alphabet and Microsoft saw their share prices fall on Wednesday, as investors were not satisfied with some aspects of their performance.

The ruling, which sided with the Biden administration and six Democratic state attorneys general, marked a major setback for Spirit, which had hoped to join forces with JetBlue to create a national low-fare challenger to the dominant Big Four airlines: American, Delta, United and Southwest.

The software giant’s market capitalization rose to $2.89 trillion at the close of trading, edging out Apple’s $2.87 trillion valuation. The last time Microsoft was worth more than Apple was in November 2021, when both companies briefly crossed the $1 trillion mark.

Argentina and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached a staff-level agreement to revamp the country’s $44 billion loan program, unlocking about $4.7 billion in funding and paving the way for a new debt deal with the lender.

The Red Sea crisis, which began in October 2023 when Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a series of attacks on Israeli and international shipping vessels, has shown no signs of abating, despite mounting pressure from the United Nations and regional powers.