Australia businesses suffer Omicron blues in Jan – survey
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY – A measure of Australian business conditions took a turn for the worse in January as a surge in coronavirus cases hit consumer spending, though firms…
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By Wayne Cole SYDNEY – A measure of Australian business conditions took a turn for the worse in January as a surge in coronavirus cases hit consumer spending, though firms…
By Elizabeth Culliford – The metaverse will open up more ways for businesses to make money, an executive from Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc told an advertising conference on Monday,…
By William Schomberg LONDON – British consumers slowed the pace of their spending last month as the Omicron COVID-19 wave hit fuel sales and kept people away from bars and…
By Sheila Dang – Bluesky, a Twitter Inc-funded project that is seeking to rebuild how social media companies operate, said on Monday Twitter co-founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey…
Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office sent a letter to crowdfunding site GoFundMe on Monday requesting the company preserve documents related to its deletion of a fundraiser supporting a…
-Take-Two Interactive Software Inc on Monday projected fourth-quarter revenue below market expectations, a sign that its thin lineup of new titles would overshadow the boost from the “Grand Theft Auto”…
By Emma Farge GENEVA – Britain will join the United States and Australia in backing a European Union trade case against China at the World Trade Organization over Beijing’s alleged…
By Allison Lampert MONTREAL – Environmentalists and some European nations are set to clash with the United States over a possible comeback of supersonic travel, saying efforts to set noise…
By Chris Prentice and Carolyn Cohn WASHINGTON/LONDON -Wall Street shares finished broadly lower on Monday, while European stocks rose following five straight weeks of declines and European bond yields soared…
– A subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc has secured a warrant to acquire 39.6 million shares in Velodyne Lidar Inc, the sensor maker said on Monday, more than doubling its share…
-Shares of Peloton Interactive Inc rose 22% on Monday after reports of takeover interest from Amazon.com Inc and Nike Inc in the exercise bike maker that recently lost a majority…
By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK – Banks in Latin America and emerging Europe are most exposed to dollarization among developing economies, making them vulnerable to weaker local currencies and increasing…
(Drops inaccurate reference to Crescent Point being an oil sands company in last paragraph) By Shariq Khan – Canadian oil and gas producer Crescent Point Energy Corp is looking to…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier said on Monday the country’s economy was likely to grow about 2.5% this year after being hit by the Omicron wave of…
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK -The dollar and the euro both eased on Monday after European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde calmed market expectations of a quick hike in interest…
By Subrat Patnaik and Akash Sriram -Tesla Inc said on Monday it received a subpoena from the U.S. securities regulator related to a settlement that required Chief Executive Elon Musk’s…
WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended Federal Reserve Board nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin on Monday as a qualified nominee amid criticism from conservatives that she is a…
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK -Bitcoin rose to a four-week high on Monday, climbing for a second consecutive session, driven in part by liquidation of some short positions that have…
– Amazon.com Inc plans to more than double its base pay cap to $350,000, from its previous maximum salary of $160,000 for U.S. employees, according to a company memo. The…
By Manas Mishra – Investors on Tuesday hope to learn Pfizer Inc’s plans for what could be a once-in-a-generation cash infusion from COVID-19 treatments and vaccines in 2022, with some…
(This February 4 story corrects milestone date in paragraph 13 to January 2020, from December 2019) By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON – Stock indexes around the globe traded mixed on Friday…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday it was issuing draft guidance seeking to protect aviation employees who perform government certification duties from interference by airplane…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON – Frontier Airlines on Monday temporarily halted all flights after a technology issue, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the airline. A Frontier spokeswoman…
By Tom Polansek and Ananya Mariam Rajesh -Tyson Foods Inc shares climbed more than 11% to an all-time high on Monday after the company reported that first-quarter profits nearly doubled…
By Shariq Khan and Rod Nickel – Spanish oil major Repsol SA is considering putting some of its Canadian assets for sale later this year as it looks to reap…