Bill Gates And Melinda French Gates Are Officially Divorced Following 27-Year Marriage
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates have gotten divorced after 27 years of marriage. A Monday filing with…
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Treasury Yields Climb, 10-Year Rate Rises To 1.19%
U.S. Treasury yields climbed on Tuesday morning, with the 10-year rate rising to top 1.19%, despite concerns about a slowdown…
Economists Fear Europe’s Recovery Could Be Derailed By One Key Issue
European consumers are proving more reluctant to spend money this summer, and it could hurt the economic recovery following the…
United Kingdom Climate Investment and Foreign Secretary Dominic Africa Back Green Housing Fund’s First Close
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab today welcomed Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to Mansion House in London to announce £132 million of…
Kasada Leverages Hospitality Fund With Development Finance Institution Debt Facility
Kasada Capital Management (Kasada), the investment platform within Kasada Group dedicated to hospitality investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, today announced that…
Vuna Partners Lands Commitment From Fund-Of-Funds
27four Black Business Growth Fund II Partnership (27four BBGF II), a blended finance partnership between the South African Government through…
Imperial Strikes Deal For J&J With Carlyle, Ethos, Ninety One, And Others
IMPERIAL Holdings has reached an agreement to buy 100 percent of the J&J Group for an enterprise value of $300…
South African Fintech Startup Yoco Reels In Large Series C From New And Existing Investors
Yoco, a South African based fintech that helps small businesses, has closed an $83 million Series C round taking the…
AgDevCo Backs Banana Estate In Mozambique
AgDevCo, a specialist investor in African agriculture, has struck its second new deal this month by backing a Mozambique agribusiness.…
Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) Agrees Debt Investment In Ivorian Hydro Project
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) (www.PIDG.org) company, is lending €25 million over 18 years to…
Airtel Money Secures New investment From Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund
Airtel Africa Plc has announced that it has secured a $200m investment for its mobile money arm from Qatar Holding…
Former President Barack Obama is now a minority owner in National Basketball Association Africa Business
Former President Barack Obama has become a strategic partner and minority owner in the National Basketball Association’s Africa business, which…
Chinese Electric Car Start-Up Li Auto Delivers More Cars Than Xpeng Again
Deliveries of what is essentially a hybrid electric car from U.S.-listed Li Auto surpassed those of rival start-up Xpeng for…
World Health Organization Officials Try To Figure Out Why Delta Is So Much Dangerous Than Earlier Covid Strains
World Health Organization officials said they are still trying to understand why the delta variant is more transmissible and potentially…
Internal Revenue Service Expands Employer Tax Credit For Covid Vaccine Paid Time Off To Include Workers’ Families
The Treasury Department announced Thursday that it will expand tax credits to employers who give workers paid time off to…
Microsoft Is In Talks To Invest In Indian Budget Hotel Start-Up OYO
Microsoft is in advanced talks to invest in Indian budget hotel chain Oyo, a source familiar with the matter confirmed…
Tesla Megapack Caught Fire At Victorian Big Battery Site In Australia
A fire occurred within a Tesla Megapack at one of the largest batteries in the world in Australia’s Victoria state…
Investors Bought Chinese Stocks In The Last Week, Despite Regulatory Concerns
Investors bought into Chinese stocks in the last week, despite mounting concerns about harsh regulation, according to fund research firm…
Oil Prices Slip But Remain Near $75 After Large Inventory Drawdown
Oil prices slipped but remained near $75 per barrel on Thursday as crude stockpiles in the United States, the world’s top oil consumer,…
Canadian Pipeline Operator TC Energy To Switch To Green Power To Run North American Energy Pipelines
Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy Corp (TRP.TO) could spend billions of dollars on its plans to lower emissions by…
Samsung Electronics Sees Strong Chip Demand, Mobile Recovery As Q2 Profit Jumps
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) on Thursday forecast strong demand for memory chips in the second half and a recovery…
Sydney Posts Record Daily Rise In COVID-19 Cases, Seeks Military Help
Australia’s biggest city Sydney posted a record one-day rise in local COVID-19 cases on Thursday and warned the outbreak would…
Naira Now Exchange At 522/$1 As Central Bank Of Nigeria Discontinued The Sale Of Foreign Exchange To Bureaux De Change
The naira has dropped to N522 to a dollar at the parallel market as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…
AMCON Takes Over NICON
The Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, has effectively taken over National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria, NICON Insurance was privatised…
TECH Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Says He’s Willing To Step Down As World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Welcomes Regulation
The boss of cryptocurrency exchange Binance says he’s willing to step down from his role as the company seeks to…
Oil Rises On United State Fuel Drawdowns Despite Surging Coronavirus Cases
Oil prices climbed on Wednesday after industry data showed U.S. crude and product inventories fell more sharply than expected last week,…
Biden Plans To Speed Up Asylum Processing And Deportations At The Border
The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will speed up asylum claim processing for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border…
Two dead, Several Injured In Acid Leak At LyondellBasell Plant In Texas
Two people were killed and several others injured following a leak of acetic acid at a LyondellBasell (LYB.N) chemical plant in La…
United States White House Wants Broadband Funding In Infrastructure Bill
A bipartisan group of senators and the White House are debating extending a program started early in the COVID-19 pandemic…