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UK to allow company meetings online or on the phone in pandemic
Companies will be able to hold their annual shareholders' meeting over the phone or online during the coronavirus pandemic under a promised new law, Britain's business...
Volkswagen China boss sees sales in China on recovery course
Volkswagen Group said sales of its cars dropped by 23% on the year to 2 million cars in the January to March period but was hopeful...
Wall Street bounces on Boeing bump, Trump's restart plan
U.S. stocks jumped on Friday following President Donald Trump's new guidelines to reopen the economy and on a report of a drug to potentially treat COVID-19,...
Venture-backed startups line up for U.S. government stimulus loans after weighing risks
The COVID-19 pandemic arrived just as Respond Software CEO and co-founder Mike Armistead was trying to sell automated cyber security software to new clients. Most of...
Trump administration working to ease drilling industry cash crunch
The Trump administration is seeking to ease a severe cash crunch in the drilling industry by raising loan limits available under a coronavirus stimulus package and...
Wall Street Week Ahead: In companies' earnings, words may matter more than numbers
Investors gearing up for another week of corporate earnings may give more weight to the words of company executives than headline-grabbing numbers, as Wall Street seeks...
Airbus chief calls for government support for shift to lower-emission planes: Der Spiegel
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury is proposing a government support programme to help airlines convert their fleets to more environmentally friendly planes, according to an interview given...
P&G sales rise about 5% amid pandemic stockpiling
Procter & Gamble Co on Friday reported an about 5% rise in quarterly sales as consumers stocked up on everything from diapers and detergents to toilet...
Oil falls as Chinese economy outweighs Trump plan to ease lockdown
Oil prices fell on Friday, giving up early gains as China's worst economic contraction on record outweighed news of U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to get...
AT&T investors denied a dial-in as annual meeting goes online
Activist investors say telecommunications pioneer AT&T Inc won't take their calls for its upcoming annual meeting, reinforcing their concerns that the shift of the gatherings to...
Portugal's car parts makers resume production as coronavirus spread slows
Portuguese car component manufacturers, among the country's top exporters, are calling thousands of employees back to work even before a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown is lifted as...
Oil mixed as Chinese economy overshadows Trump plan to ease lockdown
Oil prices were mixed on Friday as news of President Donald Trump's plans to ease the U.S. coronavirus lockdown to get the American economy moving again...
Futures jump on Trump's restart plan, coronavirus drug hopes
U.S. stock index futures jumped on Friday as President Donald Trump laid out plans to re-open the economy from coronavirus-induced lockdowns and on reports of encouraging...
Pandemic has companies dropping earnings guidance, and some say it should be nixed altogether
A growing number of companies has nixed earnings guidance amid the coronavirus pandemic, and some in the corporate world say they should be dropped permanently.