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Business / World Business

Rich families pour wealth into $31 trillion ESG opportunity 16 Sep 2019 - 08:14 pm
Those born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s are set to take possession of as much as $30 trillion, according to research firm CB Insights. (Reuters/Eddie Keogh)
World must transform food production or face unrest, scientists warn 16 Sep 2019 - 07:47 pm
A farmer tends to a wheat farm in the El-Dakahlia governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt, February 16, 2016. Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany
After bankruptcy filing, Purdue Pharma may not be off hook 16 Sep 2019 - 06:36 pm

In this file photo taken on April 2, 2019 Purdue Pharma headquarters stands in downtown Stamford, Connecticut. AFP / Getty Images North America / Drew Angerer 

 
Biggest US steelmaker's profit wanes as auto demand weakens 16 Sep 2019 - 05:30 pm
In this file photo taken on April 12, 2006 an iron and steel worker makes a test on a casting at Ascometal factory in Fos-sur-Mer. AFP/Boris Horvat
Apple takes on EU’s Vestager in record $14 billion tax fight 16 Sep 2019 - 05:05 pm
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager
BNP Paribas apologizes for employee's post on Hong Kong protests 16 Sep 2019 - 05:05 pm
An employee walks behind the logo of BNP Paribas in a company's building in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, June 2, 2014. Reuters/Charles Platiau
Big global climate protests on Friday get union support 16 Sep 2019 - 05:05 pm
Demonstrators from the action group Sand im Getriebe (grit in the gears) calling for radical change in transport policy and in the motor industry have fixed a hammock and a banner reading
Blame game as wheels come off India's auto sector 15 Sep 2019 - 11:52 pm
In this photograph taken on September 11, 2019, a security guard patrols a holding area for new vehicles near a godown on the outskirts of Hyderabad. AFP / Noah Seelam
Growing up in a trade war: China is off limits for this startup 15 Sep 2019 - 07:26 pm
Ripcord Inc founder Alex Fielding
In aging Singapore, 65-year-olds learn how to program software 15 Sep 2019 - 07:26 pm
A man reads a newspaper as others play checkers in Singapore, January 16, 2018. Reuters/Calvin Wong
Idle mines portend dark days for top US coal region 15 Sep 2019 - 06:51 pm
Train cars loaded with coal pass California Zephyr as it rolls along the tracks during its daily 2438-mile trip to Emeryville, San Francisco from Chicago. Joe Raedle / Getty Images / AFP
Victoria Beckham sees ‘women in motion’ for next spring at London Fashion 15 Sep 2019 - 06:50 pm
Models present creations from designer Victoria Beckham during a catwalk show for the Spring/Summer 2020 collection on the third day of London Fashion Week in London on September 15, 2019. AFP / Niklas Halle'n
Britain won't run out of toilet paper but fruit could be in short supply after Brexit 15 Sep 2019 - 05:40 pm
An employee stocks toilet paper along an aisle of an Asda store in Kendal, northwest England, Britain August 30, 2015. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett
As trade war deepens, a state-owned insurer in China helps soften the blow 15 Sep 2019 - 05:40 pm
Men sit at a booth of China Export and Credit Insurance Corp, known as Sinosure, at the regional trade fair East China Fair in Shanghai, March 1, 2013. Reuters
Gabon's sole train a lifeline for its people and economy 15 Sep 2019 - 04:54 pm
Then French President Francois Mitterrand (L) with Gabon President Omar Bongo inaugurates the second section of the Trans-Gabon Railway (Transgabonais) in Franceville on January 18, 1983. AFP / Daniel Janin
India’s $1.4 billion housing fund seen not enough to spur sector 15 Sep 2019 - 04:54 pm
Indian commuters pass a poster advertising ‘Facebook Live What You Love’ campaign in Bangalore on March 22, 2018. AFP/Manjunath Kiran
EMs volatile amid sharp sentiment swings: QNB 15 Sep 2019 - 07:55 am
Peninsula
Disney chief exits Apple board as firms become streaming rivals 14 Sep 2019 - 01:31 am
Bob Iger