Markets

:Coffee chain Starbucks Corp on Wednesday named Vice Chair Mellody Hobson as head of its board, making her the only African American woman to chair a Fortune 500 company.

YouTube said on Wednesday it would start removing content that falsely allege widespread fraud changed the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, in a change to its more hands-off stance on videos making similar claims.

U.S. job openings increased modestly in October and layoffs rose, strengthening views that the labor recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic was slowing.

Alphabet Inc's Google will lift its ban on political advertisements beginning Dec. 10, it said on Wednesday.

LONDON: Europe's medicines regulator said on Wednesday it was the target of a cyberattack and it was investigating the incident with help from law enforcement. The European Medicines Agency - which is responsible for assessing and approving medicines, medical devices and vaccines for the ...

Procter and Gamble named Andre Schulten, currently senior vice president of its baby care unit in North America, as its new chief financial officer, replacing Jon Moeller.

WASHINGTON: New York Attorney General Letitia James will make a major "business related" announcement on Wednesday afternoon, her office said in a press release. The announcement came among widespread expectation that a group of state attorneys general will sue social media giant Facebook for ...

Dow futures rose and S&P 500 futures hit a record high on Wednesday as hopes for a vaccine-linked economic recovery and more domestic fiscal stimulus sparked demand for economically sensitive stocks such as banks and industrials.

Dow futures rose and S&P 500 futures hit a record high on Wednesday as hopes for a vaccine-linked economic recovery and more domestic fiscal stimulus sparked demand for economically sensitive stocks such as banks and industrials.

SINGAPORE: It was only 4pm on a Wednesday (Dec 9) but there was already a line of people waiting to get into Skinny's Lounge at Boat Quay - the first customers at the bar after a closure of about eight months due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Along with Bar...