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The Federal Reserve announced its first interest rate cut in a decade on Wednesday at the close of a two-day policy meeting. The quarter-point rate reduction was widely expected, because Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other central bank leaders had signaled that they would do what was necessary to keep the record-long U.S. economic expansion going. Stocks plunged, however, after Powell called the reduction a "midcycle adjustment," suggesting that more rate cuts were not guaranteed. "Let me be clear ... Читать дальше...

Italy's biggest bank by assets UniCredit said on Wednesday it was carrying out its own investigation in relation to a major data breach at capital one Financial Corp.

Facebook Inc on Wednesday defeated an appeal by American victims of Hamas attacks in Israel, who sought to hold the company liable for providing the group a social media platform to further its goals.

Some trading and investment firms are calling for competition regulators to scrutinize London Stock Exchange's proposed US$27 billion takeover of financial information provider Refinitiv to preven

Facebook Inc has approached Netflix Inc, Walt Disney Co and other media companies about putting their streaming services on a new Facebook device for making video calls from televisions, The Informati

LONDON:European and US stock markets were slightly stronger on Wednesday (Jul 31) before a US Federal Reserve interest rate decision, as investors took account of slowing eurozone growth and a batch o

Italy's Culture ministry on Wednesday barred the construction of a McDonald's fast-food restaurant next to the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome, with Mayor Virginia Raggi saying "the wo

A hacker has stolen the personal information of over 100 million people from Capital One Financial Corp , the company said this week, in the latest high-profile breach of sensitive consumer data.

LONDON: Former government officials and privacy campaigners are questioning demands by "Five Eyes" security ministers that high-tech communications systems should remain accessible to spies

On July 30th, the Nigerian presidency announced that after a 10-year insurgency, the Boko Haram terrorist organization had been “defeated,”...

WASHINGTON:The US Federal Reserve, under intense pressure from Donald Trump to stimulate the economy, produced on Wednesday (Jul 31) the first interest rate cut in more than a decade but struggled to

Shares of Nordstrom Inc rose 7per cent on Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that members of the retailer's founding family are in the early stages of discussing a proposal to boost

LOS ANGELES: The Chinese billionaire founder of metals giant Zhongwang has been indicted in the United States for his alleged role in an elaborate scheme to avoid paying US$1.8 billion in tariffs on a

The largest U.S. bank by assets, JPMorgan Chase & Co , lowered its prime rate, a benchmark for a wide range of consumer and commercial loans, for the first time in more than a decade on Wednesday, fol

A herd of goats can function as a great eco-friendly way to cut the grass, but sometimes they have a mind of their own. On Tuesday a community in Washington state found out what happens when goats burst out of their enclosure and run through the streets. Mark Svendsen posted a video as dozens of goats scampered through the Issaquah Highlands community, just east of Seattle. He said the neighborhood homeowner’s association uses the goats to control weeds and help […]

NEW DELHI:Indian investigators have launched a criminal probe into millions of dollars paid by a Rolls Royce energy firm to an intermediary in connection with deals with state-owned firms in the South

Sell-side analysts have stopped covering U.S. private prison operators as Wall Street has distanced itself from publicly traded GEO Group Inc and CoreCivic Inc .

Whiting Petroleum said on Wednesday it has cut its workforce by 33per cent after reporting a second-quarter surprise loss, hit by a drop in crude and natural gas prices.

REUTERS: Qualcomm Inc's quarterly revenue and profit forecast fell short of Wall Street targets, driven by Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's strong gains in the Chinese smartphone market, the U.S.

SANTIAGO: Hit by five years of "economic slowdown," Latin America's economy will grow by barely 0.5 per cent this year, the United Nations economic commission for the region said on Wedn

SOUTHLAKE, Texas (AP) _ Sabre Corp. (SABR) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $27.8 million.

Trans people have lost an important ally in the media, and while it remains to be seen whether these people did in fact have something to do with its downfall, the gleeful responses to its demise point to a wider issue in society

The trend towards lower real interest rates has lasted for decades and is as likely to continue as to reverse, says the Financial Times' Robin Harding.

KARAWANG, West Java: The high tide was comingbutfishermen in the remote village of Sedari, in the northern coast of Indonesias West Java province, had no plans of venturing out tosea. The fishes are e

Meat alternatives company Beyond Meat Inc said on Wednesday a secondary offering of 3.25 million new shares would be priced at US$160 per share, an 18.6per cent discount to the stock's closing pri