By Gigi Zamora (Reuters) – Staff shortages, airport chaos and higher fuel costs have caused earnings at U.S. airlines like JetBlue Airways to land below analysts’ expectations while hotel chains…
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON – New Zealand video game developer PikPok found a solution to prolonged difficulty in finding experienced workers: Colombia. The company, which is behind such mobile game…
BAGHDAD – A power struggle in Iraq between the influential Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Sadr and Iran-backed Shi’ite rivals has escalated with his supporters breaking into parliament and beginning an open-ended…
MOSCOW – Russian divisions of foreign banks, such as Citi and Raiffeisen Bank International, have started looking for staff this month after Russian authorities moved to block them exiting the…
By Patturaja Murugaboopathy (Reuters) – Asian companies are likely to find it harder to refinance dollar-denominated debt, the decline in a key metric suggests, with the currency at a two-decade…
By Essi Lehto and Anne Kauranen HELSINKI – For foreign companies still working out what to do with their stranded Russian assets, President Vladimir Putin’s seizure of a major oil…
SYDNEY – Job vacancies in Australia surged to all-time highs in the May quarter as firms struggled to find staff amid a tightening labour market, another sign interest rates are…
By Gloria Dickie and Duncan Miriri NAIROBI – With only two days left to hash out a U.N. draft agreement to protect global biodiversity, organizers on Friday urged delegates in…
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON – Fed-up Democrats in San Francisco and Los Angeles, liberal-leaning California cities reeling from COVID-era spikes in homicides and gun violence, may punish their own party…
By Joanna Plucinska and Michael Kahn RZESZOW, Poland/PRAGUE – When Ukrainians started streaming across the border after Russia invaded their country on Feb. 24, residents in this Polish city —…
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON – U.S. coal producers are seeking to boost exports to cash in on soaring prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but face big headwinds including shipping…
Small Businesses Struggle To Survive In Biden’s Economy, Optimism Hits All-Time Low: POLL Thomas Catenacci on May 13, 2022 Small business owners are increasingly pessimistic about U.S. economic conditions and…
By Stine Jacobsen and Isla Binnie COPENHAGEN/MADRID – Wind turbine makers racked up hefty losses last quarter, swelled by rocketing costs and cut-throat competition despite being more in demand than…
By Huw Jones LONDON – Britain’s financial services minister said on Tuesday that the European Union would find it hard to replace London for clearing trillions of euros in derivatives,…
By Daniel Becerril and Miguel Lo Bianco LIMA -In the hilly slums of Peruvian capital Lima, soup kitchens struggle to feed some of the Andean nation’s poorest and most vulnerable…
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO – Robin Hayes, the ebullient chief executive of JetBlue Airways Corp, was on an Amtrak train on Tuesday coming back from Boston when news broke…
By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK – Latin America has served as a respite for whipsawed emerging market investors during the first quarter, as accelerating inflation and a more hawkish U.S.…
By Nina Chestney, Marwa Rashad and Kate Abnett LONDON/BRUSSELS – The European Commission’s plan to cut dependence on Russian gas this year will be hard to achieve and could trigger…
By Stefano Bernabei and Gianluca Semeraro ROME – Generali’s second-biggest investor, construction tycoon Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, plans to put forward his own candidate to lead Italy’s biggest insurer, challenging the…
LISBON – Firefighters are struggling to put out a fire that broke out on Wednesday on a vessel carrying thousands of luxury cars, which is adrift off the coast of…
By Jonathan Saul LONDON – Efforts to speed up the movement of goods around the world have yet to solve the supply chain bottlenecks caused by surging demand for retail…
Airlines canceled nearly 1,500 U.S. flights Wednesday, marking the 11th consecutive day of more than 1,000 cancellations, the most in a row since the beginning of the pandemic, multiple sources…