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Six Coal Miners killed In Blast In Pakistan’s Southwest
Six miners have been killed in a blast at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan,…
Investors Dump Bonds And Gold, Pile Into Equities
Investors piled into equities, while pulling money out of gold and bonds in the week up to March 10, data from…
Exclusive: Posco’s Steel Plant In India Faces Disruption, Hampering Auto…
Operations at South Korean steelmaker Posco’s plant in India’s western state of Maharashtra have been disrupted by…
Britain’s Burberry To Beat Forecasts After Sales Rebound
British luxury group Burberry said on Friday it would beat market forecasts for profits and revenues in its final…
Power To The Beeple: Digital Art Fetches $69.3M At Auction
American artist Beeple became the first to sell a purely digital piece of artwork at auction, fetching more than…
Syria: Oil Refinery Attacks Raise Fears Of ‘Grave Escalation’
Attacks on rural Aleppo that caused severe damage to oil facilities have been described as “state terrorism” by the…
UK Exports To EU Slump In First Month Of New Brexit Trade Ties
Exports and imports from Britain to the European Union plunged during the first month of the country’s new trade…
ECB’s Villeroy Flags Flexibility On Bond Purchases
The European Central Bank will be flexible at all levels in its bond purchases, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy…
Southeast Asia’s Grab In Talks For U.S. Listing Via $40 Billion SPAC Deal:…
Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing and food delivery firm Grab Holdings is in talks to go public through a…
As vaccine Nationalism Deepens, Governments Pay To Bring Production Home
In the German town of Dessau, one of the sites of the Bauhaus art school, an institute was set up in 1921 to…
Swiss Bank Rahn+Bodmer In U.S. Settlement Over Clients Defrauding IRS
Zurich private bank Rahn+Bodmer will pay $22 million to settle U.S. criminal charges it helped American taxpayers…
Rakuten To Sell 8% Stake To Japan Post In Amazon Battle
Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten Inc said on Friday it would sell an 8.32% stake to postal and banking giant Japan…
Deutsche Bank 2020 Bonuses Jump 29% As Bank Turns Profit
Deutsche Bank paid 29% more in bonuses for the past year, the lender said on Friday, rewarding staff for a pandemic…
UK Economy Shrinks By Monthly 2.9% In January
Britain’s economy shrank by 2.9% in January from December as the country went back into a coronavirus lockdown,…
Hempburger To Go? Thai Consumer Goods Firms Pile Into Legal Cannabis Trade
If the bets of Thailand’s farmed cannabis promoters pay off, Thais could soon be chowing down on hempburgers,…
From $318K To $0: Bitcoin Price Predictions For 2021
What will be the price of Bitcoin in one year? Ten years? Twenty years? Watch our latest video for our speculation!…
Asian Stocks Up On Dovish ECB As Biden Signs Stimulus
Asian shares rose on Friday after U.S. President Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill into law, and after…
Biden: All U.S. Adults To Be Eligible For Vaccines By May, Some Normalcy Coming By…
President Joe Biden told U.S. states on Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and…
China’s JD.com In Talks To Purchase Stake In Brokerage Worth $1.5 Billion…
JD.com Inc is in talks to buy part or all of a stake in brokerage Sinolink Securities worth at least $1.5 billion,…
European Central Bank To Step Up Pace Of Stimulus Program
The European Central Bank said Thursday it will step up its bond-buying stimulus in the coming months, a step aimed…
Commodities Trader Buys $36 Million Of Copper And Gets Painted Rocks Instead
Commodities trader Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. struck a deal last summer to buy $36 million of copper from a Turkish…
Stakeholders Canvass Policies to Regulate Cryptocurrency
The Nigerian Technology Industry Group has said there should be core policies that would help in regulating…
Smarter Dressing In Store For Hugo Boss As Lockdowns Lift
Hugo Boss expects its business will continue to suffer in the first quarter but forecast a gradual recovery from…
Australia To Subsidise Airfares As Part Of $928m Tourism Boost
The Australian government unveiled a 1.2 billion Australian dollars ($928m) tourism support package on Thursday,…
Investors Turn Up Heat On HSBC To Phase Out Fossil Fuel Funding
HSBC will phase out its support for the coal industry in the developed world by 2030 and in the developing world by…
Oil Prices Are Surging: Here’s Why Not Everyone Is Cheering
You’d think a world tiptoeing its way out of the coronavirus pandemic might only be good news for governments and …
With Green Energy, Japanese Governor Wants To Take Fukushima Out Of Nuclear Shadow
A decade after Japan’s devastating nuclear meltdown, the governor of Fukushima hopes the prefecture can step out of…
China Semiconductor Trade Association Establishes Work Group With U.S. Counterpart
The Chinese Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA), a major trade association for China’s chip industry, will…
Norwegian Air Updates Offer To Creditors In key Step Towards Survival
Norwegian Air said it had presented an updated restructuring proposal to creditors on Thursday, a major step in the…
Shell CEO Takes Large Pay Cut After Bruising 2020
Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden’s pay package dropped by 42% to $7 million in 2020, a year in…