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People would probably shop less if they had to pay the true cost of what they buy online, say observers Ralf Seifert and Richard Markoff.

China electric cars are inexpensive and efficient, says visiting scholar at Vanderbilt University Jack Barkenbus.

FOR the fourth consecutive year, Citi Singapore raised over S$100,000 for the annual children's charity concert ChildAid organised by The Business Times and The Straits Times. In the past 12 months, the bank held 40 community initiatives that included donation drives, community service projects and an advocacy...

BLOCKCHAIN is commonly associated with digital coins, but its deployment in the track-and-trace process of the supply chain may yield benefits beyond raising efficiency.

RIO DE JANEIRO: The head of Brazil's powerful state development bank quit on Sunday (Jun 16), a day after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro threatened to sack him, fuelling a political crisis engulfing the government. BNDES president Joaquim Levy, a Chicago-educated economist and former finance ...

Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc is combining its private-investing arms, with the resulting new division to have about US$140 billion in assets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Deutsche Bank is planning to overhaul its trading operations, including the creation of a "bad bank" to hold tens of billions of euros of assets and shrinking or shutting its U.S. equity and trading businesses, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

Goldman Sachs economists said on Sunday they are skeptical of "insurance" U.S. interest rate decreases from the Federal Reserve to forestall possible slowing in U.S. economic growth due to global trade tensions.

The head of Boeing Co said on Sunday the U.S. planemaker had made a mistake in implementing a cockpit warning system on the 737 MAX and predicted it would take time to rebuild the confidence of customers in the wake of two fatal crashes.

PARIS: The Canadian government's contracting arm is backing a proposed new satellite system that will use big data analytics to provide commercially available data about the Earth and its orbit amid growing concerns about the risks posed by space debris. Support from the Canadian Commercial ...