Amazon's Jeff Bezos invests in UK digital freight forwarder Beacon
Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has picked British startup Beacon, a digital freight forwarder, for his latest investment.
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Delta, union working to avoid furloughs of 2,300 pilots
Delta Air Lines Inc and its pilots union said on Sunday they are working to avoid furloughs of roughly 2,300 pilots following a reshuffling process meant...
Asia cautious as U.S. riots weigh on S&P futures
Asian share markets started on a cautious note and gold gained on Monday as images of riots in burning U.S. cities unnerved investors already tense over...
Coty to appoint Chairman Peter Harf as its new CEO: WSJ
Coty Inc is set to announce that Peter Harf, its current chairman, will become the cosmetics company's new chief executive officer, replacing Pierre Laubies, the Wall...
Crude prices fall on concerns of U.S. riots, even as OPEC meeting advanced
Oil prices fell due to concerns about riots in major U.S. cities that could staunch demand after trading higher on optimism that OPEC would extend or...
Retailers already hit by coronavirus board up as U.S. protests rage
Retail giant Target shuttered stores across the U.S. as retailers already reeling from closures due to the coronavirus pandemic shut stores amid protests that included looting...
Embraer negotiating $600 million bank financing for exports
Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA , the world's third largest commercial jet builder, should obtain $600 million in credit lines from Brazil's state development bank BNDES and...
Exclusive: Mexican broadcaster Televisa to launch mobile phone service, challenging Slim
Mexican broadcaster Televisa said on Sunday it will start offering mobile phone service, a bid to challenge billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil, which has long dominated...
Russia has no objection to earlier OPEC+ meeting: sources
Russia has no objection to the next meeting of OPEC and its allies, known as OPEC+, being brought forward to June 4 from the following week,...
Renault chairman dismisses fears over potential Maubeuge closure
Renault has no plans to close its Maubeuge plant in northern France, Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard said on Sunday, two days after the carmaker announced 15,000 job...
Without the coronavirus pandemic, these jobs probably wouldn't have existed
As the virus has forced businesses, restaurants, stores and theaters across the country to shut down, a quarter of American workers have filed for unemployment benefits....
With SpaceX’s first astronaut launch, a new era of human spaceflight has dawned
Space Mike Wall May 30, 2020 Momentum is building in the private sector We've gotten our hopes up before. The success of NASA's Apollo moon missions...
Here's how retirement communities are adapting to a post-Covid 19 world
Given the outsized risk that the coronavirus poses to older individuals, age-restricted communities — i.e., those for the 55-plus or 60-plus demographic — are retooling how...
EU trade commissioner Hogan mulling candidacy for WTO chief
European trade commissioner Phil Hogan is considering putting his name forward as a candidate to be the next director-general of the World Trade Organization, his spokesman...
Workers nervously eye return to Lear's coronavirus-hit plant in Mexico
Lear Corp is implementing costly safety measures that may hurt productivity at its operations in Mexico after suffering the deadliest known factory-related coronavirus outbreak in the...