JOHANNESBURG/HARARE: Petronella Mabhena, a domestic worker in South Africa, has been paying bus drivers to ferry food to her relatives in Zimbabwe for over a decade. As with many other families from Zimbabwe whose members depend on food from South Africa, the supplies were abruptly halted when the ......
U.S. stock index futures eased on Tuesday, handing back gains from the S&P 500's best day in six weeks in the previous session, as disappointing results from Home Depot weighed on sentiment.
Home Depot Inc reported a 6.4per cent rise in quarterly same-store sales on Tuesday, as the COVID-19 pandemic caused a surge in demand for cleaning supplies and masks at the home improvement chain's stores.
The aerospace industry should be among the sectors that can tap a planned European recovery fund, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday.
SINGAPORE: As part of Uber's efforts to weather the COVID-19 pandemic, the ride-hailing company will move its Asia-Pacific headquarters out of Singapore, affecting 120 employees locally. On Monday (May 18), the company said it will slash 3,000 jobs and close 45 offices, including Singapore’s ...
The euro and Italian government bonds continued on Tuesday to cheer German- and French-led plans for a 500 billion euro EU coronavirus recovery fund, though stock markets were suffering from fatigue after their best day in months.
The United States has overtaken China as the most attractive country in the world for renewables investment and the global clean energy sector is expected to bounce back quickly despite the coronavirus pandemic, research showed on Tuesday.
GLOBAL clearing house LCH has cleared the first Sing-dollar interest rate swaps referencing the Singapore Overnight Rate Average (SORA), it said on Tuesday.
LONDON: A measure of the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in Britain soared to its highest level since 1996 in April, the first full month of the government's coronavirus lockdown, data published on Tuesday (May 19) showed. The claimant count rose by 856,500 - the biggest ever month...
We have made an involuntary, no-interest, unsecured loan to the world’s airlines, says the Financial Times’ Michael Skapinker.
