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China's economic growth slows amid sputtering domestic demand
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Amazon aims at office workers with compact cashier-less food store
Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday opened a compact version of its cashier-less Amazon Go food stores, broadening its footprint in the bricks-and-mortar world in a move to add shops in places such as office lobbies and hospitals.
12 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Inclusive business models for safe water
How would you feel if you were limited to using 13 gallons of water per day that includes roughly a 90-second shower, eight glasses of drinking water, a few dish-washings, one cooked meal, two hand washings, two teeth brushings and one-toilet flush? Sounds bizarre? Surprisingly,
12 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Spain to see biggest wage hike since 1977
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday his cabinet would approve next week a 22 percent increase in the monthly minimum wage to 1,050 euros ($1,192) in 2019.
12 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Don't contact our board members, Renault tells Nissan
Renault told alliance partner Nissan to stop contacting the French company's directors ahead of a Thursday board meeting as the Japanese automaker tried to share evidence of wrongdoing by its ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn, two sources said.
12 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Global economy in 2019: Growth beginning to fray
American farmers have been forced to warehouse a bumper crop of soybeans, or sell at a loss, while a Midwest medical supply company is considering shipping production overseas amid growing uncertainty.
12 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Volkswagen denies allegations chairman knew early about emissions cheating
Volkswagen has denied allegations that Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch knew about the carmaker's emissions test cheating almost three months before U.S. authorities made it public in September 2015.
9 December 2018, 18:00 PM
China's factory gate inflation eases
China's factory inflation slowed in November, a sign demand remains weak amid Beijing's ongoing trade war with the United States, while consumer inflation also flagged, official data showed Sunday.
9 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Fed policymakers signal turning point on US rate-hike path
The US central bank is flagging a turning point in monetary policy, as a Federal Reserve policymaker on Friday backed interest rate hikes in the “near term” but nodded to increasingly less certainty ahead.
9 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Qatar says budget for 2019 will project surplus
Qatar's national budget for 2019 will show a forecast for a surplus, its Finance Minister Ali Shareef al-Emadi told a conference on Sunday.
9 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Facebook CEO backed sharing customer data despite second thoughts: documents
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg questioned the business case for giving millions of outside software developers wide access to customer data before endorsing the practice in 2012, according to internal emails published on Wednesday.
6 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Opec eyes output cuts as Trump calls for boost
Opec members and other oil-producing countries mulled cuts in output Thursday to prop up plunging prices, defying repeated calls by US President Donald Trump that they keep the taps open.
6 December 2018, 18:00 PM
China, India pull back from coal imports, hurting prices
It's not shaping up as a merry Christmas for coal exporters to Asia as the region's top buyers, China and India, pull back from the recent trend of strong imports.
6 December 2018, 18:00 PM
WTO chief warns of economic danger of trade war
All countries will lose in a global trade war, the head of the world's trade referee warned in a speech on Wednesday.
6 December 2018, 18:00 PM
India seen holding rates steady as inflation, growth soften
Analysts expect the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to support an economy that is losing momentum by leaving interest rates unchanged at a policy meeting on Wednesday, when just over a month ago most of them had predicted a hike.
4 December 2018, 18:00 PM
France, Germany move to save EU digital tax proposal
France and Germany jointly agreed a scaled-back version of an EU digital tax Tuesday, that they hoped would break significant opposition to the plan amongst bloc partners.
4 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Opec caught between Trump and falling oil prices
Opec members and other oil-producing countries convene in Vienna this week to discuss lowering their output, as they scramble to buffer their earnings against plunging crude prices, while also coming under heavy US pressure to ensure that the commodity stays cheap.
4 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Australia central bank holds rates as home prices fall
Australia's central bank kept interest rates at a record-low on Tuesday as a drop in house prices accelerated.
4 December 2018, 18:00 PM
White House seeks to end subsidies for electric cars, renewables
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday the Trump administration wants to end subsidies for electric cars and other items, including renewable energy sources.
4 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Microsoft's market value overtakes Apple's
Microsoft Corp's stock market value closed above Apple Inc's for the first time in eight years on Friday as the Windows maker benefited from growth in cloud computing while Apple was hit by investor concern about iPhone demand.
1 December 2018, 18:00 PM
France, Japan uphold auto alliance amid Ghosn crisis
The leaders of France and Japan on Friday stood by the Renault-Nissan auto alliance despite ructions from the arrest of its chief executive, officials said.
1 December 2018, 18:00 PM