SHANGHAI, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Iron ore and steel ended 2019 as China's best performing commodities, while edible oils also won big, but an easing in Sino-U.S. trade war tensions and the end to some one-off factors could reverse recent trends, say analysts.
As startup and innovation culture deepens on the continent, the explosion of tech hubs across Africa has shown no signs of slowing down: the number of tech hubs across Africa grew by nearly 50% over the past year. As these hubs play crucial roles for ...
A wave of U.S. "super mega" mergers in the U.S., each worth more than $10 billion, drove corporate deal-making to its fourth strongest year on record in 2019 despite the economic jitters that roiled global trade. While merger and acquisition activity lagged ...
SEOUL — Oil prices fell on the final day of the year on Tuesday, heading for their biggest annual rise since 2016, supported by a thaw in the prolonged U.S.-China trade dispute and supply cuts. Brent crude futures for March delivery <LCOc1>, the new front ...
A Kansas police chief who called out a local McDonald's -- after one of his officers claimed he was served a cup of coffee with a vulgar and insulting message attached -- said Monday the officer has resigned after fabricating the incident. Herington Police Chief ...
(RTTNews) - A Tencent-led Consortium, consisting Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) and certain global financial investors, has agreed to acquire a 10 percent equity stake in Universal Music Group from Vivendi (VIV.L, VIVEF.PK), at an enterprise ...
As the aerosolized grease settles on the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich and the resulting Chicken Sandwich Wars, analysts see new fights in restaurant stocks emerging in 2020, while Beyond Meat (BYND) stock looks to rebound from its epic takeoff and ...
Just two years from now, the city will have 65 percent more hotel rooms than it did in 2010 — a mind-boggling jump from 87,000 to 144,000 rooms. The building boom goes on despite recent declining occupancy and revenue. NYC & Company, the city's ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish Wealth Fund has bought the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) 10% stake in Borsa Istanbul, raising its stake in the stock exchange to 90.6%, the fund said on Tuesday. Sources had told Reuters ...
Deposits by non-residents in Singapore banks rose 2.6% in November to S$51.1 billion ($37.9 billion), the eighth consecutive month of gains, according to Monetary Authority of Singapore data. The uptick from October could reflect continued inflows from ...
Enthused by a record foreign investment inflow, India is optimistic of continuing to be one of the world's favourite FDI destinations in 2020 on the back of the Modi government's liberalised norms and a significant jump in the ease of doing business ranking.
For a live blog on European stocks, type LIVE/ in an Eikon news window. FTSE 100 down 0.6%, FTSE 250 flat. Sterling strength hits exporters. Markets to shut early on Tuesday ahead of New Year. Dec 31 (Reuters) - London's FTSE 100 declined for the ...
Microsoft is suing a mysterious North Korean hacking group called Thallium for allegedly stealing sensitive information, according to reports. The suit targets two unnamed people who Microsoft claims work for Thallium. Microsoft alleges that those individuals ...
(RTTNews) - The Malaysia stock market has finished higher in back-to-back trading days, collecting more than a dozen points or 0.7 percent along the way. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index now rests just above the 1,615-point plateau although it may run ...
In 2019, the farm belt felt about as hospitable as the asteroid belt. Record rainfall turned fields to sludge and made it nigh-on impossible to plant corn and soybeans until long after the typical window had passed. President Trump's long-running trade war cut ...
With employees such as Jeremiah Murrill, who works at a Wilmington, N.C., Chick-fil-A, it's easy to see why. Murrill was outside working the drive-thru on a chilly December day when customer Toya Liles filmed him while he was taking her rather complicated, ...
NEW DELHI: YES Bank with over 1.96 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Tuesday. Shares of Vodafone Idea (number of shares traded: 1.00 crore) , Suzlon Energy (number of shares traded: 0.61 crore) , Tata ...
The last few months have been quite tensed for telecom operators as each one of the new operators has been increasing prices in order to offset the losses. Before the Supreme Court's judgement regarding AGR was delivered, Jio came up with a new way to ...
The National Weather Service in Binghamton is cautioning motorists that the start of the end of the decade may be a little tricky in the Twin Tiers. Getty Images/ trendobjects. While an Ice Storm Warning for Delaware and Otsego Counties has expired, officials ...
New Orleans has been ranked the best long-haul city in the world, according to a new survey. Which? readers rated the Deep South metropolis as the best world city for the first time with a score of 90 per cent. New Orleans beat popular cities such as Las ...
Children are getting four times as much caffeine from drinking tea, as from energy drinks, a think tank has said, as it attacks Government plans to ban the sale of the soft drinks to minors. The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) said the proposals were ...
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) in Russia has opened a probe into hospitality and reservation site Booking.com over anti-competition issues, according to a report by Reuters. According to the regulator, Booking.com asked other hotels and hostels to ...
Weekly gas prices fell a bit or went up slightly in parts of northern New England, a gas survey company said Monday. The latest GasBuddy surveys show that the average price of gas in Vermont is $2.59 a gallon, down 1.8 cents from last week. The price in ...
New Delhi: All major telecom operators and equipment vendors on Tuesday met top officials of Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to discuss roadmap for 5G trials in the country. The meeting was chaired by telecom secretary Anshu Prakash and was ...
A minority owner and the operator of a cryptocurrency server farm in Butte are working to keep the operation open after the majority owner was indicted in a $722 million Ponzi scheme. Kevin Washington and Rick Tabish filed lawsuits in District Court in Butte ...
Petrol and diesel prices continued to increase on Tuesday because of the rise in crude oil prices in the international market. Petrol prices have increased for the third consecutive day, while the rise in diesel price has continued for the sixth consecutive day.
New Delhi: India will offer its debt-ridden national carrier for sale in a matter of weeks, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said here, expressing optimism that investors will show interest. Puri said that the national carrier, which makes about ₹26 crore ...
Malta's 2019 SiGMA conference had a dedicated blockchain and Bitcoin track of talks, and the list of speakers could never truly be considered complete without the inventor of Bitcoin, nChain Chief Scientist Dr. Craig Wright. After concluding his day, Dr. Wright ...
In 2010, India made the leap to harness solar power to meet its ever increasing energy demand. The decade has been a story of more successes than failures. The world also made significant progress in adopting solar energy. The International Energy ...
(Bloomberg) -- A gloomy year for pot stocks is ending on a dismal note, with the industry's first exchange-traded fund falling to a record low on Monday. The Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF slid as much as 4.8% to C$8.20, the lowest since it was ...
As people plan for this year's New Year's Eve celebration, chances are that most will not be stocking up on canned goods, taking out large amounts of cash from the bank or purchasing a backup generator. But 20 years ago excitement for the start of the year ...
More than 4.5 million tourists entered Israel in 2019, breaking records for the third consecutive year. By Abigail Klein Leichman December 31, 2019, 8:39 am. Passengers at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90.
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