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As shoppers tuck their final Christmas presents under the tree, U.S. retailers are bracing for a record-setting flood of returns of online gifts bought during the deadly surge in coronavirus cases. To make the process more efficient, retailers including Walmart Inc and Target Corp let shoppers ...

TOKYO: Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in the next 15 years, the government said on Friday (Dec 25) in a plan to reach net zero carbon emissions and generate nearly US$2 trillion a year in green growth by 2050. The "green growth strategy", targeting the hydrogen and auto ......

US web company GoDaddy apologized Thursday after an email that promised employees a Christmas bonus in the midst of the economic crisis turned out to be a computer security test.

Worries over a resurgent coronavirus pandemic and upcoming U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia are clouding the outlook for what has historically been a seasonally strong period for equities.

LONDON: The Europe Union deal-making machine has churned out another deal. Even in a year of momentous negotiations — on the pandemic recovery fund and rule of law safeguards — it is a remarkable achievement. Four and a half years after the UK voted to leave the EU, London...

U.S. hedge fund Farallon Capital Management said on Friday it has asked Toshiba Corp to convene an extraordinary shareholders meeting over the Japanese industrial conglomerate's investment plans.

The completion of the long-awaited Brexit trade deal comes just as UK markets closed for the Christmas break, but things are set fair for next year when liquidity returns.

The arguments against poor presents are powerful. But has the pandemic changed all that? The Financial Times’ Tim Harford ponders.

Hong Kong has done well in its fight against COVID-19. The larger concern for the city may be getting caught in US-China tensions, says University of Hong Kong’s Vera Yuen

The suspected Russian hackers behind the worst U.S. cyber attack in years leveraged reseller access to Microsoft Corp services to penetrate targets that had no compromised network software from SolarWinds Corp, investigators said.