Vehicle and equipment maker CNH Industrial said on Tuesday it planned to return progressively to full operations at most of its facilities around the world by the end of May, in line with the easing of coronavirus lockdowns.
MADRID: Unemployment in Spain rose again in April, pushing the number of people depending on benefits to a record 5.2 million as one of the world's strictest coronavirus lockdowns brought the economy to a halt. The number of people in Spain registering as jobless rose by 7.97 per cent in...
STOCKHOLM: Swedish cloud computing services provider Sinch AB said on Tuesday it would acquire SAP Digital Interconnect, a unit of SAP SE, for 225 million euros (US$245 million) in a deal that will boost its presence in the United States. Sinch, which has a scalable platform for messaging, voice...
France is hoping to deploy its state-supported "StopCOVID" contact-tracing app by June 2, the Minister for Digital Affairs, Cedric O, said on Tuesday.
French carrier Air France is to require all passengers on board its flights to wear masks from May 11 to comply with French government guidelines on COVID-19 protection measures.
SINGAPORE: Retails sales across almost all categories plunged in March but a few sectors were unscathed, most notably supermarkets and hypermarkets. Figures released by the Department of Statistics (SingStat) on Tuesday (May 5) showed that overall retail sales in March declined 13.3 per cent ...
German fashion house Hugo Boss said it expected the impact of the coronavirus pandemic to be worse in the second quarter after it reported that sales fell a currency-adjusted 17per cent in the first, but added that it was seeing signs of a rebound in China and online.
JAKARTA: Indonesia's economy grew at its weakest pace since 2001 in the first quarter, slower than expected, as the coronavirus pandemic halted business activity in Southeast Asia's largest economy. The coronavirus crisis has taken a toll on consumption - the main driver of the economy ...
LONDON: A substantial majority of people around the world want their governments to prioritise saving lives over moves to restart economies being hammered by measures aimed at halting the spread of COVID-19, a global survey has found. The latest findings of the Edelman Trust Barometer, which for ...
Australia's economy is losing Aus$4 billion (US$2.5 billion) every week its virus shutdown continues, while a million workers have already lost their jobs in the crisis, according to figures announced Tuesday.
