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NewsAlert: Canada gains 63,000 jobs in September, unemployment rate falls

Ontario and British Columbia were home to the greatest increases in employment, while it remained little changed in other provinces, the agency said. More peo...

Healthcare job growth continues; hospitals add 12K positions in September

In both the US and Canada in September, there was shrinkage in the unemployment rate. Not all of the news in the household survey was positive. Walser Wealt...

Rupee hits new low of 73.34

In line with our expectations, RBI maintained the key policy repo rates at 6.5%. The MPC projects inflation at 3.9-4.5 percent in H2 of FY19 and 4.8 per...

USA crude drops 2.7%, as traders cash in on rally

Due to those uncertainties, the market is now very nervous and emotional, and traders and other market participants could continue to make decisions based on th...

Amazon Wage Increase Includes Removal Of Stock Options, Bonuses

Amazon's current hourly wages vary. While restaurants are facing pressure to raise wages across the USA, they're also dealing with a tight labor market that's...

Fuel Prices: Center Finally Responds To Common Man’s Plight

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac on Thursday refused to reduce Value Added Tax (VAT) by Rs 2.50 on petrol and diesel in the southern state as per the Ce...

USA unemployment falls to 48-year low in September

The U.S. central bank raised rates last week for the third time this year and removed the reference in its post-meeting statement to monetary policy remaining...

May appeals for party unity at ‘toughest phase’ of Brexit

But she did her best to appear relaxed as she sashayed on to the stage to Abba hit Dancing Queen and joked about the coughing fit and collapsing stage backdro...

Trump hails Canada, Mexico trade pact

He said the deal needed to be fair since one trading partner was 10 times larger. The deal will preserve a trade dispute mechanism that Canada fought hard to ...

Pentagon report accuses China of trying to undermine USA defense industry

In a speech at the Hudson Institute on Thursday, Pence said China has used covert actors , front groups, and propaganda in an attempt to sway U.S. public opi...

Aston Martin shares fall on stock market debut

Now, shares of the British carmaker have been listed on the London stock exchange at £19 per share, valuing the company at £4.33 billion. Aston Martin cut t...

More than 1,200 Toyota cars in Ireland affected by safety recall

Borneo Motors, the authorised distributor for Toyota in Singapore, said in an email to Channel NewsAsia that 744 Toyota Prius cars in Singapore were affected ...

United States vice president says China interfering in American politics

In the prepared remarks provided by his office, Pence charges that China is targeting "industries and states that would play an important role in the 2018 elect...

U.S. says China wants to kick Trump out of the White House

But reaction to the vice president's remarks by critics on Thursday, however, warned that Pence and the Trump administration are playing a unsafe game. China co...

North Korea said to have stolen a fortune in online bank heists

According to Fox News , Pompeo will meet with Kim Sunday as part of his week-long trip to Asia that includes official stops in Japan, South Korea, and China. N...

Petrol, diesel prices slashed by Rs 2.50 per litre

Training his gun on the BJP ruled states, Surjewala said that highest Value-Added Tax on fuel in the country is imposed in states ruled by the BJP and named C...

Rupee sinks to historic low, Centre anxious

First of all, the heavy selling in markets is based on macro factors like weakening Indian rupee against the USA dollar and it is showing no inclination to stre...

After trade deal win, Trump doubles down on China

That has begun to change with a revamped NAFTA deal the Trump administration named the USMCA, which stands for the U.S. -Mexico-Canada Agreement. USMCA will o...

US, Canada Deal Saves NAFTA as Trilateral Pact

Negotiators from both sides spent two days talking by phone as they tried to settle a range of hard issues such as access to Canada's dairy market and US tari...

Saudi King wouldn't last 'two weeks' without United States support

King Salman but I said, 'King, we are protecting you. Brent crude rose almost 2 percent after hitting a four-year high on Wednesday as the market focused on...

Washington dairy interests optimistic in wake of new trade agreement

The United States, Mexico and Canada have reached agreement on a new tri-lateral trade alliance. "While it's possible to conclude that the deal consists lar...

Oil extends longest quarterly rally in a decade on supply risks

WTI has risen around 18 percent since mid-August. That's the highest level since November 2014. More fundamentally, oil markets have been pushed up by loomi...

Tesco launches Jack's discount chain and own brand

It will launch 10-15 Jack's stores in 2019. Articles appear on euronews.com for a limited time. Jack's will also stock a unique own-brand range alongside fami...

Brent crude oil prices near four-year high, regional airline stocks waver

USA oil prices hit their highest level since November 2014 on Tuesday and Brent crude was also near a four-year peak reached the previous day, with markets pr...

Responding to critics, Amazon raises its minimum wage to $15

The federal minimum wage for the U.S.is now $7.25, though most states have higher minimums. Employees at Whole Foods, which Amazon now owns, will get the same p...

Amazon raises minimum wage for United States and United Kingdom employees

Warehouse workers in the United Kingdom have admitted to urinating in bottles because they were being disciplined for "idle time", while others lived in tent...

Tesla shares soar after Musk settles with SEC

In 2013, the company stated that it would use Musk's Twitter account as a means of announcing material information, however this has been diluted over the y...

Petrol crosses Rs 91-mark in Mumbai, LPG above Rs 500

The agitated commuters say that the rise in prices of petrol and diesel has left them with little to spend on other important items. Reports claim that India ...

Manufacturers relieved, dairy farmers angry in wake of trade deal

The U.S. -Mexico-Canada agreement that will succeed NAFTA includes the elimination of Canada's Class 7 dairy price system and greater U.S. access to the Canad...

GE ousts Flannery, names Lawrence Culp chairman and CEO

Culp led Danaher from 2000 to 2014, helping grow an industrial company into a broader conglomerate through a series of acquisitions, while growing earnings. T...

John Flannery ousted at GE after less than 2 years

GE now expects to miss its 2018 earnings forecast and take an impairment charge for nearly all of the US$23 billion of goodwill associated with its power segmen...

DOJ sues Calif. over new net neutrality bill

The FCC has said instead that other agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission, should take a more active role in protecting the public from violations ...

Tesla shares jump on Model 3 numbers, Musk settlement

Initially, Musk was ready to accept SEC's proposed settlement that stipulated he would step down as chairman for two years and pay between $5-10 million as a ...

Facebook: 'View as' feature opened 50M accounts to hackers

A lot of questions remain. "We don't know if any accounts were actually misused", Zuckerberg said. Instagram , which is owned by Facebook, may also have be...

Elon Musk’s "Funding Secured" Tweet Just Cost Him & Tesla $40 Million

The SEC's lawsuit charged that the tweet, which caused Tesla's shares to jump, was misleading because he did not actually have the funding lined up for such a...