After a spectacular year, precious metals are set for further gains in 2021, with silver tipped to outperform, but analysts are growing more cautious about the prospects for gold as the global economy recovers from the impact of the coronavirus.
A Delaware judge ruled this week that former Viacom shareholders may pursue a lawsuit accusing Shari Redstone of engineering a "patently unfair" merger that created ViacomCBS Inc so she could become a media magnate like her late father, Sumner Redstone.
Big pharmaceutical companies have played a huge role in rolling out one of the fastest vaccines to be developed in human history. Their highly publicised role belies the other important factors making that impossible task a reality, says Yale-NUS College’s Professor John Driffill.
The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft and access some of the company's source code, the firm said on Thursday.
The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft and access some of the company's source code, the firm said on Thursday.
Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, but the modest drop did little to dispel concerns that the U.S. job market and wider economy face an arduous recovery from the devastation inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Airline group IAG revamped its board to ensure a majority of independent non-executive directors are from the European Union and rolled out plans to comply with ownership rules of the economic bloc following Brexit, the company said on Thursday.
NEW YORK: Amazon is jumping into the podcast business. The online shopping giant is buying Wondery, a four-year-old producer of popular true crime podcasts such as Dr Death and Dirty John, which was later turned into a TV series. An explosion of new podcasts has led to a number of acquisitions as...
BRUSSELS: The European Union will seek a swift resolution of a 16-year battle over aircraft subsidies with incoming US president Joe Biden, saying that new US tariffs have damaged talks with the Trump administration. The Commission, which coordinates trade policy for the 27-nation European Union ...
BEIJING: China has made major progress in developing its economy and eradicating rural poverty over the past year despite the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a New Year address on Thursday (Dec 31). China was the first major economy to register positive economic growth ...
