The Latest Breaking News from Western Europe

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's (NYSE:BABA) hunt for overseas growth is critical to offset sluggish demand at home by expanding in Europe through its Southeast Asian offshoot, Lazada, Reuters reports. Lazada plans to target local European vendors, while Alibaba's existing global platform, AliExpress, will continue to focus mainly on cross-border sales from China. However, the…

Interactive Brokers Group Inc (NASDAQ: IBKR) announced the launch of Carbon Offsets to its clients in Western Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Twenty-five years ago, Joe Biden visited Warsaw, Poland, with a warning: Even though the Soviet Union had collapsed, some of NATO’s original members weren’t doing enough to ensure the alliance’s collective defense. “Now it is time for the people of Western Europe to invest in the security of their continent…

Million-plus containers set to ride railway linking Western Europe to Eastern China via Russia now have to find new routes by sea, adding to costs and threatening to worsen the global supply chain chaos, 

Ukrainian refugees fleeing bombs and bullets at home are fanning out across Western Europe

BofA analyst Justin Post lowered Meta Platforms Inc's (NASDAQ:FB) price target to $290, down from $330, but reiterated a Buy. The price target implies an upside of 54%. Post noted that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would have a "modest impact" on advertising sales of the Facebook parent. Also Read: Deutsche Bank Still Finds Big Tech…

BMO Capital analyst Peter Sklar downgraded Magna International Inc (NYSE:MGA) to Market Perform from Outperform with a price target of $63, down from $89, implying an 11% upside. The analyst stated that he had previously seen a possibility of a timely resolution of the Ukraine/Russia conflict, but recent developments instead point to a protracted…

Several hundred Hungarians rallied in central Budapest on Tuesday to protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has sent tens of thousands of refugees across the border, with most of them fleeing towards Western Europe.

Crews cleared fallen trees and worked to restore power to about 400,000 people in Britain as Western Europe cleaned up Saturday after one of the most damaging storms for years. At least nine people were killed, many by falling trees, in Ireland, Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands.