DETROIT, Michigan: General Motors on Thursday (Mar 25) said it is expanding its board of directors to 13 persons, with women holding seven of the seats. GM named two new directors, Meg Whitman and Mark Tatum. Whitman, 64, is a longtime tech executive and former Republican candidate for governor...
WASHINGTON: The number of people seeking unemployment benefits in the United States fell sharply last week to 684,000, the fewest since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted a year ago and a sign that the economy is improving. The Labor Department on Thursday (Mar 25) showed that jobless claims fell from...
U.S. vaccine developer Vaxcyte Inc on Thursday asked board chairman Moncef Slaoui to step down, a day after GlaxoSmithKline dismissed him as an independent probe found he had sexually harassed a GSK employee several years ago.
Major miners need to increase spending to secure fresh copper supply, analysts say, amid worries that availability of the red metal, crucial for the shift to a low carbon world, will slide just as demand surges.
Nike and Adidas came under fire on Chinese social media on Thursday after Beijing's propaganda offensive against Swedish fashion brand H&M sparked by the company's expression of concern about labour conditions in Xinjiang.
Amazon asked the Indian government on Thursday not to change e-commerce foreign investment rules until investigations into its business practices had been concluded, two sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters.
Cboe Global Markets Inc said on Thursday it was expanding into Asia by acquiring share trading platforms in Australia and Japan to broaden its footprint in the increasingly competitive sector of financial market data.
OCBC's outgoing group chief executive officer (CEO) Samuel Tsien will step down from his role as executive director on his last day on April 15.
Two-thirds of senior company executives believe it is not currently commercially viable to operate as a net-zero emissions business, a global survey commissioned by British lender Standard Chartered showed.
U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday ahead of data that is likely to show a drop in weekly jobless claims, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq looked set to rebound after a 2per cent drop in the previous session.
