Climate activists piled up giant cardboard delivery boxes outside the finance ministry in Paris on Friday, protesting against Amazon's expansion in France as the online retailer launched a delayed "Black Friday" sales drive.
NEW YORK: Investors are gauging how far a rally in beaten-down energy shares could run, as an expected recovery for the coronavirus-hit economy clashes with skepticism about the long-term prospects of fossil fuels. Energy shares overall soared nearly 27per cent in November, leading the charge ...
WURZBURG, Germany: At first sight, they look like regular containers. But the rectangular boxes made by German company Va-Q-Tec will in fact play a key role in keeping life-saving COVID-19 vaccines ultra cool as they are shipped across the world. After Britain this week became the first country to ......
Food delivery startup DoorDash Inc said on Friday it now expects to raise up to US$3.14 billion in its U.S. initial public offering (IPO).
BEIJING: China's central bank on Friday granted approval for the set up of a personal credit agency to be jointly held by an investment arm of the Beijing government, subsidiaries of e-commerce giant JD.com and Xiaomi Corp, and facial recognition start-up Megvii Technology. The agency, named ...
Alitalia will offer COVID-tested flights from Rome to New York starting from Dec. 8, the airline and the company running the Fiumicino airport, Aeroporti di Roma, said in a joint statement on Friday.
SINGAPORE: A scheme to encourage firms to hire local workers will be further enhanced to support ex-offenders, Minister for Manpower Josephine Teo said on Friday (Dec 4). Under the Jobs Growth Incentive (JGI), which was introduced in August, the Government will co-pay 25 per cent of the first S$5 ...
Sabadell is considering more job cuts and striking product distribution alliances with other European banks after merger talks with rival BBVA fell through last week, according to four sources with knowledge of the matter.
Investors stepped up their buying of riskier assets such as stocks last week while pulling money out of safe-haven gold, BofA said on Friday, as major vaccine breakthroughs extended hopes that economies could move closer to normality in 2021.
Brexit trade talks are in the difficult phase and a deal can only be struck if the European Union accepts that Britain is a sovereign nation, Business Secretary Alok Sharma said.
