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Travelers await Thomas Cook rescue talks

Suffolk travellers are anxiously waiting to hear if they will be able to jet off on long-planned holidays, or be able to fly home as planned, as the future of t...

Facebook suspends thousands of apps but user impact unclear

Zuckerberg promised , in March of 2018, to "investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatical...

Bank of England warns Brexit delay would hurt growth

Kganyago noted that while growth rebounded in the second quarter , longer-term weakness in most sectors remain a serious concern. All nine policymakers voted...

Microsoft Rises on $40 Billion Buyback, Dividend Boost

The repurchase authorization has no expiration date, and may be terminated at any time, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said Wednesday in a statement. On ...

Google makes biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has reportedly called the company's latest slew of energy deals as the largest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history. I...

The Economy Fed's Rosengren Says Rate Cut 'Not Needed'

While some Fed officials worry more about potential price pressures, since the U.S. economy continues to grow at a fairly solid pace and produce historically lo...

Airbnb plans to list shares next year

Over the years, the Airbnb community has grown from 1 000 in 2011 in 12 cities, to seven million Airbnb listings in over 100 000 cities around the world i...

Elon Musk Insists "Pedo Guy" Is A Common Insult In South Africa

Mr Unsworth's lawyer L. Lin Wood called his client "a good man whose efforts saved the lives of 13 people". Unsworth sued two months later in Los Angeles fede...

Mixed reaction to Corbyn's proposed party neutrality in second Brexit referendum

However, Labour remains concerned that Johnson could simply ignore this law or find a loophole to try to force a no-deal Brexit on October 31. And Welsh Lab...

United Auto Workers' GM strike reaches day 5, pain is spreading

Union officials say Navistar's truck plant in Springfield will shut down two production lines for a week beginning Monday because of parts shortages. On Frida...

Houthi leader says Yemeni rebels will stop attacks on Saudi Arabia

USA and Saudi officials rejected the claim, saying the attack had not come from the south. Several administration officials, including Secretary of State Mik...

The FDA has opened a criminal investigation into vaping

Still, health officials said they haven't found a definitive cause or a clear connection between cases, and they warned that patients anxious about becoming i...

WeWork is said likely to delay IPO after valuation plummets

But investor sentiment, already souring, turned overwhelmingly negative when WeWork released its IPO prospectus, despite more recent efforts to soothe concern...

Attacks had zero impact on Saudi revenue, says minister

Sources previously told Reuters Aramco was targeting a domestic listing as early as November, but Aramco's chairman, Yassir al-Rumayyan, said on Tuesday the IPO...

OECD predicts slowest global growth since GFC

The Paris-based research body said it now expects world output of goods and services to increase by 2.9% this year, the smallest annual rise since 2009 when the...

Houthi rebels threaten more attacks on Saudi facilities The Hill

The Saudi government called the attack an "unprecedented act of aggression and sabotage" but stopped short of directly pinning blame on Iran. He said Secret...

Senior Military Adviser Threatens Broad Response to Any 'US Plot' Against Iran

Yemen's Houthi rebels-currently fighting against a Saudi-led coalition as part of Yemen's civil war-claimed responsibility for the attack, which caused a spi...

India delivers surprise corporate tax cuts to boost economy

Almost 50 per cent of the companies were paying effective tax rate of below 30 per cent under current rules. Reacting to the news of the ban on e-cigarettes, ...

Manufacturer halts distribution of generic Zantac after cancer-causing impurity discovery

The Swiss drugmaker's decision follows an investigation by USA and European regulators into the presence of the impurity, N-nitrosodimethylamine ( NDMA ), in ...

Someone's stacking bets a hard Brexit will make BOE slash rates

Juncker said he and Johnson made no progress when they met earlier this week. The bank's next scheduled interest rate decision is November 7, a week after t...

Apple says EU tax bill 'defies reality and common sense'

The European Commission released yesterday (19 December) its full decision on Apple's tax arrangements in Ireland. The EU demands that Apple pays the missin...

Saudi minister: 50% of crude reduction restored

Recording its highest one-day percentage gain since 1988, Brent crude oil futures settled at $69.02 per barrel, a rise of 14.6 per cent. Saudi Arabia, which...

Fed Cuts Rates By Quarter Point, But Faces Growing Split

However, President Trump , . who has been pressuring the Fed to take more sweeping cuts. slammed the decision, . saying Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and other Fe...

Apps tell Facebook intimate details, study finds

The crux of this data sharing seems to stem from the use of the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), which provides developers with analytics and a means to...

Flour Recall 2019: E. coli Contamination Found In Gold Medal Flour

The presence of E. coli O26 was found during sample testing and no illnesses have been reported, General Mills said . Although there have been no confirmed...

Euro surges as investors see ECB done with stimulus

Meanwhile, the Eurozone's largest economy is expected to fall into recession in the third quarter. Also next week, Japan's central bank will announce its ...

Telsa Model 3 storms the charts, becomes best-selling auto in the Netherlands

In the IIHS tests, Model 3 was evaluated for crashworthiness, occupant protection, crash avoidance, and headlight systems. The safety testing also included ...

London Stock Exchange flatly rejects Hong Kong's $39 billion takeover offer

In a statement, LSEG said management "unanimously rejects the conditional proposal" from Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) and "given its fundamental flaws, see...

Facebook to face 26 central bank officials over Libra crypto project

Besides, the meeting will reportedly happen among Libra and the Committee on Payments and the Bank of International Settlement's forum, Market Infrastruct...

Apple may steal Netflix streaming crown, but only for a year

Needless to say, this is an important achievement that comes just at the right time, albeit many analysts expected this to happen after the unveiling of the new...

Oil Prices Jump Following Drone Attack On Saudi Oil Facility

Yemen's Houthi rebels had claimed responsibility for the attacks, which led to the interruption of an estimated 5.7 million barrels in oil supplies. Eurasia G...

Rate cuts expected soon as China's slowdown worsens

Fixed-asset investment, a key driver of domestic demand that includes infrastructure investment, increased 5.5% year-on-year in the first eight months of this y...

Trump says US locked and loaded in response to drone attack

The Iran-aligned Houthi group that controls Yemen's capital said they carried out the attacks with 10 drones , but American media have reported that U.S. Rel...

Apple says $14 bln EU tax order 'defies reality and common sense'

Indeed, even if the European Commission is successful in making Apple foot the $14.4 billion back tax payment, the tech behemoth is certainly not in a strai...

Yemen rebel claim over Saudi oil attacks 'lacks credibility'

Iran has denied those allegations. Saudi Arabia is the world's leading oil exporter. However, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the Saudis themselve...