NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks finished higher on Wednesday (Apr 10) after Federal Reserve meeting minutes suggested no shift in the central bank's dovish tilt. The Dow Jones Industrial Average eked out a modest gain of 6.58 points (0.03 per cent) at 26,157.16. The broad-based S&P 500 advanced 10 ...
Prosecutors are planning to file criminal charges against Brazil's miner Vale SA and its employees over the collapse of a mine-waste dam in January that killed hundreds of people, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing the lead investigator.
U.S. grain trader Archer Daniels Midland Co said on Wednesday it will open a voluntary retirement window for North American employees and may eliminate individual positions as part of restructuring of specific areas.
COLORADO SPRINGS: With constellations of thousands of telecommunication mini satellites expected to orbit Earth in the near future, the risk of space-debris collisions will grow. For Nobu Okada, it's an opportunity. The 46-year-old Japanese entrepreneur founded the start-up Astroscale in Singapore ...
WASHINGTON: There is no "arbitrary deadline" to conclude the US-China trade talks, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday (Apr 10), a week after President Donald Trump said the talks were due to take another month. "We're not going to set an arbitrary deadline," Mnuchin told CNBC ......
Carlos Ghosn's defense lawyers filed their second appeal against his latest detention on Wednesday, Kyodo news reported, as the ousted chairman of Nissan Motor Co seeks a formal explanation for his re-arrest.
WASHINGTON: Rising corporate and government debt levels and the sharp increase in more risky lending could leave the global economy vulnerable to another severe downturn, the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday (Apr 10). While the concerns "aren't all setting off alarm bells just yet," ...
U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in 14 months in March, but underlying inflation remained benign against the backdrop of slowing domestic and global economic growth.
WASHINGTON: Chief executives of some of the largest US banks appeared before Congress on Wednesday (Apr 10), giving lawmakers their first opportunity to grill the lenders since the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Democratic lawmakers focused many of their questions on who the banks were doing business ...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao defended the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to not immediately ground the Boeing 737 MAX fleet after a second deadly crash in March of an airplane in Ethiopia.
