NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar rose and a gauge of global equities pushed closer to an all-time high on Wednesday after a batch of U.S. economic data brightened the economic outlook and investors remained bullish on prospects for a U.S.-China trade accord. Stocks on Wall Street set all-time highs, the latest surge to […]

Hungry shoppers are being offered a stunning deal this Friday, after Morrisons unveiled its biggest ever breakfast. The 19-piece meal includes three sausages, three rashers of bacon, three hash browns, baked beans, mushrooms, two halves of tomato, two fried eggs, two slices of black pudding and two half slices of fried bread – all for […]

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said Singapore has many opportunities to build on despite the global slowdown, with technology in particular opening up possibilities. Mr Heng told the Enterprise 50 (E50) Awards gala dinner yesterday: “Our diversity continues to be our strength.” He added that while companies innovate with technology, Singapore […]

Atlantic Flight Training Academy (AFTA), the Cork-based international flight school, has signed a new pilot-training partnership with Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines. The deal means 20 of the airline’s commercial pilots will be trained at the Cork school. AFTA already works with other carriers such as Ryanair, Air Astana and Stobart Air. Pegasus is Turkey’s leading […]

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – ByteDance has stepped up efforts to separate its social media app TikTok from much of its Chinese operations, amid a U.S. national security panel’s inquiry into the safety of the personal data it handles, people familiar with the matter said. The Chinese technology company is seeking to provide assurances to the […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – S&P 500 companies’ .SPX earnings are expected to decline in the fourth quarter from the year-earlier period, which could be a second straight quarterly profit fall for the group, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. As of Tuesday, fourth-quarter earnings for the S&P 500 were expected to fall 0.1% from the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday set out a procedure to protect U.S. telecommunications networks and their supply chains from national security threats, saying it would consider whether to bar transactions on a case-by-case basis. U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order in May declaring a national emergency and barring U.S. […]

If you're already counting down the days until the weekend, Pizza Express is about to provide you with a lot of excitement for a Tuesday: free doughballs. The high street restaurant chain's famous Snowball Dough Ball Day is set to return on Tuesday, 26 November Rather than paired with garlic bread or pesto, Pizza Expresses […]

Mounting risks and debts have seen De La Rue warn that it might not be able to continue operating as a going concern if more than one thing goes wrong at once. While it said this was only likely in a worst case scenario, one expert said De La Rue was now left "teetering on […]

If the automobile business in the United States is indeed a cyclical affair, the station wagon is due for a renaissance. Just don’t hold your breath. The station wagon — known also, depending on the culture, as an estate, an avant, a woodie, kombi or caravan — was a key family hauler for much of […]