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PARIS – Carrefour shares opened 2.8% higher on Thursday as investors cheered record cash generation in 2021 and a confident outlook for 2022, reflected in a new share buyback plan …

BERLIN – New car registrations in the European Union reached a historic low of 682,596 units in January as semiconductor shortages continued to hurt car sales across the region, data …

Sports gambling during the 2022 Super Bowl surged to record highs as legal gambling became more accessible throughout 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported. GeoComply, a company that records gambling …

Philip Lenczycki on February 15, 2022 With the 2022 Winter Olympics held in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is receiving unprecedented scrutiny for its human rights record. As …

– Backers of the U.S. biofuel industry told lawmakers on Wednesday that the nation’s renewable fuel mandates are good for farmers, national security and the environment, defending the controversial program’s …

(Corrects day of the week in first paragraph) TOKYO – Japanese consumers’ one-year forward expected inflation rate rose to 2.43% in February, a Consumer Affairs Agency survey showed on Wednesday, …

By Fergal Smith TORONTO – Canada’s main stock index fell on Thursday but not nearly as much as Wall Street, as its heavy weighting in financial and energy shares helped …

A group of British researchers broke the previous record on sustained nuclear fusion using a machine that reached a temperature 10 times hotter than the sun’s core. The researchers, using …

By John McCrank NEW YORK – CME Group Inc on Wednesday reported a fourth-quarter profit that topped Wall Street expectations, helped by increased usage of the futures exchange operator’s interest …

The U.S. trade deficit continued to grow in December as the import-export gap widened to record highs in 2021, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The trade deficit grew by 1.8% …

BERLIN – Luxury carmaker Porsche AG expects another record year for sales despite the global semiconductor chip shortage, its sales chief was quoted as saying by industry magazine Automobilwoche. “When …

SEOUL -South Korea on Sunday surpassed one million cumulative COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, as health officials reported a daily record of 38,691 new infections driven by an Omicron …

– New Zealand reported a record 243 new COVID-19 community cases on Saturday, as officials warned more cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant are expected but urged people in …

– A record number of people, totaling more than 3.6 million, were unable to work due to illness during the week that officials gathered data for the benchmark U.S. monthly …

By Chibuike Oguh – Carlyle Group Inc said on Thursday its fourth-quarter distributable earnings increased almost fourfold thanks to a record level of asset sales from its private equity portfolio …

A lightning bolt spanning nearly 500 miles across three states captured a new world record holder for longest flash, multiple sources reported. A lightning bolt from April 2020 spanning 477.2 …

By Timothy Aeppel – More robots joined the U.S. workforce last year than ever before, taking on jobs from plucking bottles and cans off conveyor belts at trash recycling plants …

BALTIMORE, MD – The rate of shootings and murders is increasing in the city of Baltimore and 2022 is off to a worse start for the city than the record-breaking …

GENEVA – A single lightning bolt that leapt across three U.S. states has been identified as the longest ever, the U.N. weather agency said on Tuesday. Dubbed a megaflash, the …

By Patturaja Murugaboopathy – U.S. high yield bond exchange-traded funds saw record monthly outflows in January as investors ditched assets likely to be hit by an increase in market volatility …

By Nina Chestney LONDON – The value of traded global markets for carbon dioxide (CO2) permits grew by 164% to a record 760 billion euros ($851 billion) last year, analysts …

By Simon Jessop LONDON – NextEnergy Capital said on Monday it had raised a record $896 million for its NextPower III ESG fund, focused on solar infrastructure investments in OECD …

Gun sales surged to a record high in 2021, fueled by first-time gun owners, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). At least 5.4 million people purchased firearms for …

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the 14.5 million Americans signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act for 2022. “Health care should be a right, not a …