January’s Food Price Index has risen 10 percent year on year, the highest level since July 2014, the U.N....
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Reversing five months of sinking prices, inflation shot from -0.3 percent in December to 0.9 percent in January, according...
IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for the U.S. service economy rose from 54.8 in December to 58.3 in...
The Eurozone’s economy shrank 0.7 percent in 2020’s final quarter, contributing to the region’s loss of 6.8 percent for...
ExxonMobil, the world’s second-largest oil company, reported its fourth quarterly loss in a row for the last three months...
The U.K.’s central bank has told commercial banks to make needed changes to their processes and records systems to...
India’s government will seek to borrow $11 billion from capital markets over the next six weeks to initiate capital...
Governments in the Arab world must invest in technology and make economic reforms that accelerate recovery from the global...
In a major policy reversal, the Cuban government will permit small, private businesses to operate in most sectors of...
Italian landscapes from Tuscany’s countryside to Sicily’s dramatic hills have made the country a favorite site for luxury weddings...
BIG BANKS SLASHING BRANCHES. In late January, TD Bank announced the closure of 81 of its 1,223 U.S. branches...
The recent World Economic Forum’s “Davos Agenda” virtual summit highlighted several “Tech For Good” innovations that appeared to tout...
Tech companies would no longer be able to ban political candidates, and they would have to provide opt-outs of...
Poland is proposing the establishment of a “Freedom of Speech Council” that would guarantee its citizens are not arbitrarily...
American democracy has been destroyed from the inside, and the nation has become a thoroughly co-opted satellite of China....
Along with David Portnoy of Barstool Sports, Elon Musk was one of the few prominent figures who signaled support...
Many states in the U.S. approached rates of 20,000 vaccinations per 100,000 in population this past week. States with...
Facebook announced yesterday it will dish out $120 million in free advertising to health departments and non-government organizations that promote...
The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) found that about one in three who received the COVID vaccine reported some...
For anyone who thought the availability of a COVID vaccine or “herd immunity” would lead to a return to...