The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits inched down last week, consistent with a recent stalling in the labor market recovery.
BRUSSELS: Despite deep uncertainty over a surge in coronavirus cases and the impact of new variants of the disease, senior European Commission officials on Thursday (Feb 11) expressed cautious optimism that European economies will rebound later this year and in 2022. In its winter interim economic ...
SINGAPORE: Baking was her hobby for more than 10 years but Josephine Wee never thought that her homemade cookies were good enough to be sold. “My children love my cookies and always say why not sell them, but making for your family and selling to strangers are two...
Global shares rose for a ninth day running on Thursday, just off record highs, as investors digested recent gains, while bulls were sustained by the promise of more free money after a benign U.S. inflation report and a dovish Federal Reserve outlook.
The European Parliament on Thursday approved measures to suspend competitive access to airport slots throughout the summer as the coronavirus travel slump drags on.
Amazon.com Inc took its legal challenge against partner Future Group's US$3.4 billion retail assets sale to India's Supreme Court on Thursday, as the U.S. firm tries to stop a major rival buying the assets.
BEIJING: Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings said a company executive is being investigated by authorities over allegations of "personal corruption", after a media report said the move was linked to sharing of personal data from its popular WeChat app. The move comes amid Beijing's unprecedented ...
When Marie-Ines Romelle, a Black woman born on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, decided to join the exclusive world of France's champagne producers, she saw no one who looked like her.
PepsiCo Inc said on Thursday it expects organic revenue to grow in 2021 on hopes that consumers would return to pre-pandemic lifestyles as economies reopen and COVID-19 vaccinations roll out.
The Biden administration needs to develop an aggressive, coherent digital policy to counter China's growing technological power, industry groups and former U.S. officials say.
