Washington: US worker productivity rose more than expected in the second quarter as hours increased at their fastest pace in 1-1/2 years, keeping...
Washington: US worker productivity rose more than expected in the second quarter as hours increased at their fastest pace in 1-1/2 years, keeping...
Russian Internet company Yandex and the country’s biggest consumer bank Sberbank said yesterday they were teaming up to create a new major player...
Indian carmaker Tata Motors yesterday reported a 42 percent rise in quarterly profits, buoyed by a one-time gain from changes it made to...
Mexico City: A US proposal for Mexico and Canada to vastly raise the value of online purchases that can be imported duty-free from...
Frankfurt: German energy giant EON confirmed its full-year forecast for 2017 yesterday, after a strong performance in the second quarter helped make up...
London: UK consumers cut back on spending for a third month in July as house-price growth slowed sharply, dealing yet another blow to...
Gold prices settled in the early trading on Monday near its lowest level in two weeks. Spot gold was steady at $1,257.51 per...
Berlin: Germany should consider introducing binding quotas for electric cars for an automobile sector seeking to recover from a diesel emissions scandal and...
Washington: Netflix yesterday announced it was acquiring comic book publisher Millarworld, creator of popular series including “Kick-Ass” and “Kingsman.” The first-ever acquisition by...
Athens: Greece’s statistics agency yesterday said it would no longer publish flash estimates of its growth figures after wide divergences in data called...
Ghana is considering passing a law that will restrict government’s fiscal deficit to not more than 5 percent of GDP, the country’s Senior...
HONG KONG: Short sellers are increasingly targeting Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies they allege have committed accounting tricks, market manipulation and fraud. And that’s...
London: The UK government will review ways to bring down electricity prices for households and businesses to levels lower than the rest of...
San Francisco: Toshiba Corp took another stab at its US joint venture partner, Western Digital Corp, saying it has no rights to new...
Battered more than most by the 2008 crisis and restrained by trade spats with neighboring Russia, the three Baltic economies maybe aren’t Europe’s...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is finding it hard to grind out higher profits this year, in large part because of slumping results...
Houston: Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co., the two largest US chemical makers, have received all the regulatory approvals needed to close their...
Boston: Vanguard Group has a message for competitors trying to undercut its prices: Game on. In recent years, rival asset managers such as...
