ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a phone conversation on Monday night to discuss ongoing talks with international creditors, a Greek government …
BEIJING (Reuters) – The devaluation of currencies by some countries has led to sharp gains in the yuan (CNY=CFXS), China’s trade ministry said on Tuesday as it promised to keep the yuan at a “basically …
Oil supply and demand don’t fully justify the 60 percent drop in prices between June and January as speculation also played a role, according to OPEC. A rise in supply from outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at a time when demand for oil was weak was the main reason for the drop, OPEC said in its monthly bulletin on Monday. Brent oil, benchmark for more than half of
HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, says pretax profits were up 4 percent to $7.1 billion in the first quarter from a year earlier, even as it beat back increasing regulatory costs. The bank is increasing internal …
The bull market “supercycle” for stocks and bonds is approaching an end, as the unconventional monetary policies that have bolstered asset prices since the financial crisis are running out, widely followed investor Bill Gross said on Monday.
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McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook says he’s stripping away layers of bureaucracy so the company can move faster to keep up with changing tastes.
Billionaire Warren Buffett said Monday the stock market would be viewed as “cheap” now if interest rates continued to remain low.