TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks edged higher on Monday as Chinese shares reversed early losses due to hopes for progress in resolving the U.S.-China trade ...
Facebook is willing to reverse course on its plans to tie its digital currency project to a synthetic currency tied to a basket of global currencies. Reuters is reporting ...
Facebook Inc , facing growing skepticism about its digital currency project Libra, on Sunday said the initiative could use cryptocurrencies based on national ...
To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of the nation-state's demise are greatly exaggerated. The exits of Mastercard, Visa, Paypal and four other firms from the Libra ...
It is a good thing Libra is unravelling, along with Mark Zuckerberg's dream of a private global payments monopoly. But we should not throw the technological ...
The head of Facebook Inc.'s Libra project said that it could use cryptocurrencies based on national currencies like the dollar, rather than the synthetic one it ...
SYDNEY >> Australia's Qantas today completed the first non-stop commercial flight from New York to Sydney, which was used to run a series of tests to assess ...
Qantas has completed a test of the longest non-stop commercial passenger flight as part of research on how the journey could affect pilots, crew, and ...
Qantas boss Alan Joyce says he is optimistic he will green-light the airline's so-called “Project Sunrise” and start flying non-stop services from New York and ...
Officials with the United States Department of Agriculture announced a recall of 6444 pounds of Great Value brand ready-to-eat pork sausage patty and turkey ...
CARYVILLE, Tenn. — Over 6000 pounds of ready-to-eat meat products have been recalled due to possible salmonella contamination. According to the USDA, ...
Members of the United Automobile Workers continued to strike against General Motors Co. Sunday, now the 35th day of a national strike against the automaker.
With the GM strike stretching into a second month, the impact is intensifying across the Midwest economy, hitting more businesses and auto-parts suppliers ...
A Chick-fil-A restaurant that opened in the United Kingdom amid protests against the company's opposition to same-sex marriage will close in the next six ...
The first Chick-fil-A in the UK announced it would be shutting down in six months, just days after the popular American fast-food chain made its debut in the ...
Chick-fil-A opened the doors of its first United Kingdom restaurant Oct. 10, marking the popular but controversial chicken chain's second location outside the ...
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Sunday a mix of monetary easing, flexible fiscal spending and structural reforms to raise the country's ...
Netflix does not take Halloween lightly. Advertisement. Though we will be without the streaming *service's* spookiest shows – Stranger Things and Chilling ...
Netflix gained 517,000 U.S. subscribers during the company's third fiscal quarter, though the streaming *service's* subscriber gains were slightly below ...
The Lufthansa Group is a European airline group consisting of a conglomerate of airlines and segments. Recently, it has hinted at a structural shift, but let's take ...
(WXYZ/AP) — Local UAW meetings begin on Sunday as rank-and-file members begin voting on the tentative agreement reached earlier this week between the ...
Current union workers at General Motors got a win. As the more than five-week UAW strike of the Detroit automaker comes to a close, assembly workers walk ...
In an apparent pandering competition to win the favor of union voters, Democratic presidential candidates used the Ohio debate stage to blast General Motors ...
Kellogg has teamed up with GLAAD to create breakfast alchemy with a new “All Together” flavor cereal, formulated to support anti-bullying and LGBTQ advocacy ...
Business Insider asked each Democratic presidential hopeful how they would approach the trade war with China, which has become one of the most importa...
Hong Kong (CNN Business) China's growth dropped last quarter to its lowest level in nearly three decades, as the world's second largest economy continues to ...
Traders continue to surprisingly laugh in the face of China's economic slowdown, which is in large part being fueled by the trade war with the U.S.. And as long ...
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are urging distributors and consumers to check their freezers after a Florida company recalled nearly 65,000 pounds of ...
If you're making this mistake as well, you're essentially losing money. Credit cards tend to get a bad rap, since they can easily lead to overspending. And the ...
A recent Wall Street Journal article on the evolving credit card market sent me checking to see which card I actually carried. Credit cards are so boring I had no ...
MNStudio/Shutterstock.comAfter my husband lost his job, I became the family's only source of income. When we decided that he would stay home with the kids.
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told reporters at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington that Facebook's digital currency libra needs to be ...
Jamie Dimon doesn't think Libra, Facebook's embattled cryptocurrency project, will ever get off the ground. "It was a neat idea that will never happen," the.
Brilliant ideas that would be catastrophic in the hands of buccaneering privateers should be pressed into public *service*. That way, we can benefit from their ...
China on Monday unexpectedly kept unchanged its new benchmark lending rate, for the first time since its debut in August, suggesting Beijing is keen to avoid ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China on Monday unexpectedly kept unchanged its new benchmark lending rate, for the first time since its debut in August, suggesting ...
China's base rate for new corporate loans stayed unchanged in October, defying expectations of a reduction as the economy sees its slowest pace of growth ...
China on Monday unexpectedly kept unchanged its new benchmark lending rate, for the first time since its debut in August, suggesting Beijing is keen to avoid ...
The Greater Clark County Schools board voted Tuesday to rename Jeffersonville High School's baseball facility the John H. Schnatter Stadium after the Papa ...
Alphabet (Google) subsidiary Wing has become the first company in the United States to deliver packages by drone. In Christiansburg, the small Virginia town ...
Christine Lagarde, former head of the International Monetary Fund, says President Donald Trump is responsible for many of the risks facing the global...
With the global economy at risk of recession, the man for the job is a woman. Since 2011, Christine Lagarde has been managing emergencies as head of the ...
Christine Lagarde, who is set to take over as president of the European Central Bank, said in an interview that the U.S. risks diminishing its role as a global ...
Incoming European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said President Donald Trump's trade war with China has dented global economic growth, and he ...
President Trump's unpredictability is "hurting" trade and his trade war with China is "going to give a big haircut" to the world economy, incoming European ...
Matthieu Pigasse, the longstanding head of France for Lazard and co-owner of Le Monde newspaper, has resigned from the financial advisory and asset ...
PARIS (Reuters) - French banker Matthieu Pigasse is to leave Lazard after 17 years to pursue a new entrepreneurial project, an exit that will see the firm lose ...
Lazard Ltd. said Matthieu Pigasse will step down as chairman and chief executive officer of its operations in France at the end of the year to pursue an ...
A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker in New York was arrested over allegations of insider trading in the U.S., according to court records unsealed on ...
SAVANNAH, NY -- Dale Weed jumped at the opportunity to grow industrial hemp on his upstate New York farm, but he didn't think the demand for his crop would ...
A project that started as a way for one transgender person to pay for gender-confirmation surgery has grown into a Utah-based nonprofit helping others who ...
Provo • A project that started as a way for one transgender person to pay for gender-confirmation surgery has grown into a Utah-based nonprofit helping others ...
The CEO of Apple has met with the top market regulator in China, a statement said Friday, a week after the tech giant faced heavy criticism over an app Beijing ...
Previously, a similar group of American legislators lashed out at the video game company Activision Blizzard over punishing one of its e-sports athletes for ...
Key point: Nationalism is a double-edged sword for the Communist Party. Chinese nationalism is once again on the rise. From the public military spectacle of the ...
Marcus Kolga: For the sake of democracy, voters in the Markham-Unionville riding should ask their local candidates about their positions on human rights in ...
Key point: Nationalism is a double-edged sword for the Communist Party. Chinese nationalism is once again on the rise. From the public military spectacle of the ...
Members of the millennial and Gen Z generations care more than past generations about climate change, but younger Americans have been slow to show that ...
According to Leasing.com, personal car leasing in general and electrified car leasing, in particular, becomes a new trend. The Tesla Model 3 is very popular.
October 19th, 2019 by Paul Fosse. Here at CleanTechnica, we have been following Norway closely, since this is the first country to hit the tipping point where ...
For almost three years, "Welcome To Video" was a covert den for people who traded in clips of children being sexually assaulted. There, on the darknet's ...
For almost three years, "Welcome To Video" was a covert den for people who traded in clips of children being sexually assaulted. Then it all began to unravel.
On Wednesday, the United States' Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed how it had followed a trail of bitcoin transactions to find the suspected administrator of ...
October 21st, 2019 by Zachary Shahan. There are a handful of hilarious and informative pro-Tesla Twitter accounts. Elon Musk's may be the most famous (either ...
ATLANTA - Six months after Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law allowing companies to grow and sell medical marijuana in Georgia for the first time, the program ...
Sure, Aurora Cannabis (NYSE:ACB) shares are down around 25% so far this year. And, yes, the stock is more than 60% off its highs set in the first quarter.
Six months after Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law allowing companies to grow and sell medical marijuana in Georgia for the first time, the program remains stalled ...
Barrick is poised to restart gold mining in Tanzania after the company agreed to pay $300 million to the African country and share ownership and other benefits ...
Barrick Gold Corp said it had reached a deal to settle a long-running tax dispute between Tanzania and mining group Acacia, which Barrick bought in a $1.2 ...
Barrick Gold Corp. agreed to pay $300 million to the Tanzanian government to end a long-running dispute that it says destroyed the value of its subsidiary ...
Canadian mining company Barrick Gold said it had reached a deal to settle a long-running tax dispute between Tanzania and mining group Acacia, which ...
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania government and Barrick Gold announced on Sunday October 20, 2019 that they formed a joint-venture that will operate three mines as ...
GREEN BROOK, N.J. -- A couple from New Jersey is suing Taco Bell for what they consider deceptive advertising. According to FOX, they said the restaurant ...
Huawei is banned from selling its 5G technology in the US, but that isn't stopping it from trying an end run around that hurdle. Senior VP Vincent Pang told Re...
Chinese telecom giant Huawei has reportedly held early-stage discussions in recent weeks with unnamed U.S. telecoms companies on "licensing its 5G network ...
Huawei which was earlier blacklisted in US, has commenced conversations with some U.S. telecom companies for licensing its 5G network technology to them.
Earlier this month, we told you that the Trump administration had painted itself into a corner by banning Huawei, the world's largest networking equipment ...
Blacklisted Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei is in early-stage talks with some US telecoms companies about licensing its 5G network technology to ...
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — They call it the Cosmic Crisp. It's not a video game, a superhero or the title of a Grateful Dead song. It's a new variety of apple, coming ...
In case you didn't hear the news, Social Security recipients aren't getting a very generous raise for 2020. The upcoming cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) ...
Ask Rusty – Income Tax On Social Security Versus The Earnings Test. Dear Rusty: I retired from work this year (age 62) and I will receive my first social security ...
It is time to repeal New Mexico's counterproductive tax on Social Security benefits. For more than half a century after Social Security was enacted in 1935, Social ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund is examining the impact of climate on the world's financial markets and whether it is priced into ...
Public health agencies are warning parents about using cannabis in the presence of their children. However, parents who use cannabis say that it makes them ...
British Columbia's solicitor general says the province wants to see as much small-scale production as possible for marijuana edibles to allow for regional ...
In June this year Colorado hit the magic number: $US1 billion in taxation revenues flowing from the sales of legal cannabis. Considering that this is a product ...
An Austin presence since 1939, Hut's originally operated on South Congress Avenue. It relocated to West Sixth Street in 1969. Buy Photo. [1/22]. People wait for ...
There was no shortage of hungry customers waiting in line to get one last bite of an iconic Hut's burger. Hut's Hamburgers closes its doors Sunday after 80 years ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has plenty of accomplishments and he's practically just getting started. So, what's it really like to work for and interact with the man?
Court filings from the defamation lawsuit between Elon Musk and the British diver whom he called a "pedo guy" last year during the Thai cave rescue have ...
Musk spoke at a business forum in Russia's Krasnodar on Friday, where he was lured by local entrepreneurs who put up a Russian-language billboard near his ...
San Francisco: Multi-billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk regularly switches to new smartphones and destroys old ones for security purposes, according to a court ...
Saudi Aramco said Sunday the timing of its long-awaited stock market debut "will depend on market conditions," after the latest delay in the blockbuster initial ...
It makes more profit than any other company in the world, but is it the most valuable? The answer is now unlikely to come before December, after Saudi Aramco ...
One reported rationale for the latest IPO delay is apparently so the bankers can incorporate third-quarter numbers into the valuation, writes Liam Denning.
Aramco's 91 grade - used for most modern cars - will be priced at 1.50 riyals per liter, down from 1.53 riyals per liter in the previous quarter. The 95 grade - used ...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - New large corporate planes that can fly farther and an industry push toward sustainable aviation fuels are seen as bright spots as the ...
General Motors (GM) plans to build a new family of premium electric pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant beginning in late 2021, ...
An exclusive report on the GM/UAW talks for the future of the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly brings the possibility of multiple electric trucks and SUVs, including ...
General Motors may build its rumored electric Hummer revival vehicle alongside its electric pickup truck at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant, according to a report.
GM's agreement and future plans with the United Auto Workers (UAW) includes several future electric SUV and pickup trucks. These vehicles are planned to be ...
UK house prices have registered their lowest October rise since the 2008 financial crisis as Brexit uncertainty continues to take its toll, according to the property ...
Asking prices for London homes rebounded in October amid a scarcity of new properties, with areas closest to the center of the U.K. capital seeing the biggest ...
Asking prices of homes in London have risen £14577 this month as sellers hold off from putting their homes on the market. The average price tag rose slightly by ...
A traditional autumn bounce in house prices has failed to materialise as thousands of potential property sellers sit on their hands because of concerns about the ...
In the latest legal salvo over the use of corn syrup in beer, Anheuser-Busch claims MillerCoors "misappropriated trade secrets" by obtaining full recipes and a ...
MILKWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) — Anheuser-Busch is suing MillerCoors over its confidential recipes for Bud Light and Michelob Ultra. In a heavily redacted court ...
There's a current battle between two brewery companies. Anheuser-Busch claims MillerCoors stole some of its corn syrup recipes along with other trade secrets.
Nobel-prize winning economist Robert Shiller believes a recession may be years away due to a bullish Trump effect in the market. According to the Yale ...
Nothing can keep Damon Parker from shopping at this city's newest Kroger, not even the awful memory of a fatal shooting he witnessed there 28 years ago.
As has been the case for almost five years now, Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) reported another impressive quarter Thursday night. The company's da Vinci ...
Shares of Intuitive Surgical (ISRG - Get Report) surged Friday as the fast-growing robotic surgery company rides a wave of investor enthusiasm following strong ...
Every investor in Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) should be aware of the most powerful shareholder groups. Institutions will often hold stock in bigger ...
With elevations at sea level and open fields stretching from small towns to shoreline, the Delmarva Peninsula is defined by its paced population and rural ...
Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. It echoes the ...
