Oil prices drop as China-U.S. tensions grow, Beijing fails to set economic growth target
Oil prices fell on Friday as tensions rose between the U.S. and China and as Beijing failed to set target for economic growth this year, stoking...
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Nissan considering 20,000 job cuts, mainly in Europe, developing nations: Kyodo
Nissan Motor Co is considering cutting 20,000 jobs from its global workforce, focusing on Europe and developing countries, Kyodo news reported on Friday, as the Japanese...
Global stocks skid as Hong Kong returns as Sino-U.S. flashpoint
Global shares tumbled on Friday as Hong Kong's political unrest returned as a flashpoint in fast-deteriorating U.S.-China relations, following Beijing's moves to impose a new security...
Vodafone names Heineken's Van Boxmeer as new chairman
Vodafone , the world's second-biggest mobile operator, has recruited Jean-Francois Van Boxmeer, the current CEO of brewer Heineken , to succeed Gerard Kleisterlee as chairman from...
Renault could disappear and must adapt: French finance minister
Renault could disappear if it does not get help very soon to cope with the fallout from the coronavirus crisis, France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire...
Big changes could be coming for student loan borrowers
More relief could be on its way to those struggling with student loan debt. Here are the proposals on the table.
Hedge funds increased exposure to growth favorites in first quarter: Goldman
Hedge funds concentrated their portfolios even further into growth stocks including Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp in the first quarter of 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic...
Ryanair's Lauda airline to close Vienna base, 300 jobs to go
Ryanair's Austrian airline Lauda on Friday said it would shut down its main Vienna base on May 29 with the loss of more than 300 jobs...
Banks pursue Luckin Coffee chairman's assets after loan default
The banks that lent $518 million to Luckin Coffee Chairman Charles Zhengyao Lu have started court proceedings to liquidate his private company, a government gazette for...
Wall Street dips as trade tensions add to virus woes
U.S. stock indexes edged lower at the open on Thursday as growing Sino-U.S. tensions and mixed retail earnings added to worries about the pace of a...
Nvidia forecasts sales above estimates, powered by data center results
Nvidia Corp on Thursday forecast second-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates, as demand surges for its chips used in the data centers that power the shift to...
U.S. meat inventories tightened as virus shut slaughterhouses: USDA
U.S. frozen pork inventories fell in April, when they typically rise, and beef inventories dropped more than normal as the coronavirus pandemic shut slaughterhouses and prompted...
Hewlett Packard Enterprises lays out $1 billion savings plan, pay cuts
Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Thursday unveiled a plan targeting gross savings of at least $1 billion by 2022 and cut the base salaries of top executives...
Judgment on key aspect of Huawei CFO's extradition trial in Canada due next Wednesday
A decision on a key legal aspect of the trial over whether Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou can be extradited to the United States...
Small businesses can use PPP loans for masks and reopening expenses like sneeze guards in proposed bill
The proposed bill gives small business owners more flexibility in how they use the loans, addressing several persistent complaints about the $660 billion effort.