By Elizabeth Piper LONDON – A rebellion against Prime Minister Boris Johnson by some of his Conservative Party’s newest members of parliament (MPs) quickly collapsed this week – but might…
LONDON -Stay-at-home market darling Netflix slumped on Friday, joining a broad decline in shares of other pandemic favourites this week as investors priced in expectations for a return to normal…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -Volkswagen AG agreed to a $3.5 million settlement with Ohio over claims the German automaker violated state laws by manipulating vehicle computer software in its vehicles…
-Louie Anderson, a three-time Emmy Award winner, comedian and game show host, died on Friday morning after a battle with cancer, his publicist told Deadline. He was 68. The star…
By Benjamin Mallet and Florence Tan PARIS -Oil majors TotalEnergies and Chevron Corp, partners in a major gas project in Myanmar, said on Friday they were withdrawing from the country,…
By Nadine Schimroszik and Supantha Mukherjee BERLIN/STOCKHOLM -Intel still intends to develop European chip manufacturing capacity despite the delayed plans being overshadowed by its announcement on Friday of a more…
By Mrinalika Roy and Manojna Maddipatla -The World Health Organization on Friday recommended extending the use of a reduced dosage of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 5 to 11…
– Twitter Inc said on Friday its head of security is no longer at the company and its chief information security officer will depart in the coming weeks. The shakeup…
By Fabian Cambero and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO -Chile’s leftist President-elect Gabriel Boric unveiled his Cabinet on Friday, throwing markets and investors a bone by picking current central bank…
BERLIN – The German government expects inflation to reach 3.3% on average this year, after skyrocketing to 3.1% in 2021, according to a draft of the annual economic report seen…
By Uday Sampath Kumar and Praveen Paramasivam – Executives at U.S. companies including Monster Beverage and American Airlines have stressed on higher costs for everything from labor to raw materials…
By Jonathan Landay and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK -Four Belarusian government officials have been charged in the United States with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last May to…
By Deena Beasley – Alzheimer’s patient groups, disappointed by Medicare’s plan to sharply limit coverage of new drugs for the brain-wasting disease, are planning publicity and lobbying campaigns to protest…
SYDNEY -Britain warned Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that its allies would stand together to fight for democracy against dictatorships that it said were…
WASHINGTON – A gauge of future U.S. economic activity increased solidly in December, suggesting the expansion would continue despite challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and anticipated interest rate increases from…
By Balazs Koranyi, Leika Kihara and David Lawder – The world’s biggest central banks, moving in tandem at the height of the pandemic, are set to tighten policy at vastly…
By Medha Singh – Single stock options totaling about $1.28 trillion were set to expire on Friday, potentially driving sharp market movements as Wall Street rounds out a turbulent week,…
By Iain Withers and Lawrence White LONDON -JPMorgan, Barclays and Deutsche Bank have told staff they can return to the office in England, joining a growing number of banks reopening…
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA – Canadian retail sales most likely fell by 2.1% in December as authorities imposed restrictions to fight the Omicron variant of the coronavirus and retailers faced…
By Shrutee Sarkar and Sarupya Ganguly BENGALURU – The Bank of Canada will raise interest rates earlier than was thought a month ago, with only a slim majority of economists…
ZURICH – The World Economic Forum will hold its 2022 annual meeting in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos from May 22-26, the Geneva-based group said on Friday. The WEF…
– U.S. equity funds faced outflows in the week to Jan. 19 on concerns over a rise in U.S. Treasury yields and a feeble start to the fourth-quarter earnings season.…
By Gaurav Dogra – Global exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew record inflows last year as investors plowed their growing cash balances into the low-cost, transparent investment products. According to Refinitiv Lipper…
-U.S. federal agencies have been directed to raise the minimum wage for government employees to $15 an hour, according to a new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).…
-More than 8,000 workers at nearly 80 Kroger Co-owned King Soopers stores called off their strike on Friday after reaching a tentative deal with the U.S. retail giant, the United…