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An Escalating Labor Strike Could Soon Wipe Out Almost 25% Of Norway’s Oil And Gas…
A strike by workers in the Norwegian oil sector could soon wipe out nearly one-quarter of the country’s petroleum…
Pound Drops As Boris Johnson Tells UK To Prepare For No Deal Brexit
UK prime minister Boris Johnson has told Britain to get ready for an “Australian” style Brexit but stopped short of…
ECB Chief Says Arsenal Of Economic Stimulus On Standby Amid Upsurge Of Coronavirus…
LONDON — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said her organization would be prepared to…
The Turkish Lira Is Getting Smoked, Will Crash To New Lows Due To ‘Unorthodox’…
Turkish policies have become too ‘hard-headed’, says professor
Turkey’s embattled currency hit another record…
Exclusive: OPEC+ Fears Second Virus Wave Could Lead To Oil Surplus In 2021
OPEC and its allies fear a prolonged second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and a jump in Libyan output could push…
Bankrupt Car Rental Firm Hertz Secures $1.65 Billion In Financing, Shares Soar
Bankrupt car rental company Hertz Global Holdings Inc said on Friday it had lined up $1.65 billion in…
Brexit Brinkmanship: Johnson Says Prepare For No-Deal, Cancels Trade Talks
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday it was now time to prepare for a no-trade deal Brexit unless the…
BioMed Valued At $14.6 Billion In Deal For Sale From One Blackstone Fund To…
Blackstone Real Estate Partners and co-investors have agreed to sell BioMed Realty for $14.6 billion to a group led…
Morgan Stanley Dares To Share With Bankers’ Pay
Morgan Stanley is making more, and paying more. Logical as that sounds, it’s also rather daring. Handing over big…
Exclusive: Second Sovereign Downgrade Wave Coming, Major Nations At Risk –…
Some of the world’s top economies could see their credit ratings cut or put on downgrade warnings in the coming…
Wall Street Bank Trading Boom Does Little To Assuage Concerns About Lending
As Wall Street banks reported quarterly results this week, investors wondered about the staying power of the…
UK Resists National Lockdown Despite Study Suggesting It Could Save Lives
The British government on Wednesday resisted a short lockdown for all of England, despite calls from the opposition…
Kidnappings By Pirates Up 40% In Gulf Of Guinea: IMB
Kidnappings rose by 40% in the Gulf of Guinea in the first nine months of this year, and the region off West…
Trump Raises Coronavirus stimulus offer to $1.8 trillion, about $400 billion less…
The White House will take a $1.8 trillion coronavirus stimulus offer to Democrats as the sides work to strike a…
Broadway Theaters To Remain Closed Through May 30
Broadway theaters will remain closed through May.
The Broadway League, a trade organization representing…
Hurricane Delta Bears Down On Storm-Weary U.S. Gulf Coast
Residents in parts of the U.S. state of Louisiana left town or made last-minute preparations on Friday as Hurricane…
Gilead CEO: ‘We Have Ample Supply’ Of Remdesivir For Hospitalized Coronavirus…
Gilead Sciences will have sufficient global supply of its coronavirus treatment remdesivir by the end of October,…
22 Air Travellers Test Positive For Covid-19 – PTF
Health minister, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has revealed that 22 persons have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19),…
COVID-19: International Borders And Need To Keep Nigerians Safe
Nigeria’s international borders re-opened on September 5, 2020. This came months after international and land…
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Sues Utah Businessman For Defamation Over Tweets…
Nikola founder Trevor Milton has sued a Utah businessman for defamation, accusing him of a “malicious campaign to…
Pelosi Asks Airlines To Pause Furloughs, Vowing Additional Aid, But No Deal Yet
Airline stocks rallied Friday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed additional aid for the battered sector but an…
Trump ‘Doing Very Well,’ Has Started Remdesivir Therapy, White House Physician…
President Donald Trump was taken to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday “out of an abundance of caution” following…
London Is Global Corruption’s Top Offender
In May 2016, David Cameron raised an uncomfortable topic. At an anti-corruption summit in London, the former…
Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Participants Report Day-Long Exhaustion, Fever And…
Luke Hutchison woke up in the middle of the night with chills and a fever after taking the Covid-19 booster shot in…
House Passes $2.2 Trillion Democratic Coronavirus Stimulus Bill
The House passed a $2.2 trillion Democratic coronavirus stimulus plan on Thursday night even as Democrats and the…
Almost Half Of UK Workers Relying On Loans, Credit Cards Or Overdrafts Since…
More than 40% of workers are now relying on at least one new loan, credit card or overdraft in order to make ends…
Why Fewer Nigerians Are Returning Home’
Reports have indicated that many more Nigerians would have returned to the country since resumption of…
Africa And The World Continue To Allow Illegal Capital Flight
Despite having so much to gain from them, Africa’s role in negotiations to reform international tax is negligible…
15-Minute Coronavirus Test Gets The Green Light In Europe
A test to detect Covid-19 that can be done at the point of care and gives results in 15 minutes has been given the…
GOP Pollster Sees Trump-Biden Debate As Embarrassing, Says It ‘Encouraged People…
Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz told CNBC on Wednesday that participants in his focus group were let…