Richard Edelman is on a mission to get company bosses on the record about social issues. Write a blog, post a tweet, record a TikTok. Whatever it takes to register your stance on a moral or ethical issue of the day. The era of CEOs staying silent on matters of public discussion is fading, says […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks clung to tight ranges on Thursday as investors awaited key Chinese data for clues on how much the 16-month trade war between Beijing and Washington has hit growth in the world’s second-largest economy. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.01%. Australian shares were up 0.12%, while Japan’s […]
BENGALURU (Reuters) – The U.S.-China trade war is unlikely to see a permanent truce over the coming year, and while concerns have eased over a U.S. recession, an economic rebound is also not expected any time soon, according to a Reuters poll of economists. The Nov. 8-13 Reuters poll of over 100 economists showed a […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global equity markets and government bond yields fell on Wednesday as sentiment soured that a U.S.-China trade deal can be reached soon and on fears intensifying unrest in Hong Kong may lead to a Chinese crackdown. Gold prices rose on fading investor optimism on the U.S.-China trade talks, helping to boost […]
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) released its fourth report on enforcement against content that violates its policies on Wednesday, adding data on photo-sharing app Instagram and content depicting suicide or self-harm for the first time. Pro-active detection of violating content was generally lower on Instagram than on Facebook’s flagship app, where the company initially implemented […]
When Dean Foods was founded in the 1920s, milkmen still delivered pints to homes across the country and a glass of milk was considered a nourishing part of any meal. Nearly a century later, milk is quickly falling out of fashion, and Dean Foods has found itself unable to compete as plant-based and lactose-free alternatives […]
LOS ANGELES — Nickelodeon will make a “SpongeBob SquarePants” spinoff for Netflix as part of a multiyear content-production deal that reflects the pressure on Netflix to fortify itself against new streaming competition, notably Disney Plus. Netflix and Nickelodeon announced a deal on Wednesday for Nickelodeon to create and produce original animated feature films and television […]
LONDON (Reuters) – A former top Citigroup (C.N) trader, who was fired in 2014 but acquitted of foreign exchange-rigging charges after a trial in New York, told a London employment tribunal he was unfairly dismissed despite being in the “eye of the storm” at the time. Rohan Ramchandani, who headed European spot forex trading, has […]
Half of the UK’s leading firms are still “well adrift” of meeting a looming target for at least a third of executive positions to be held by women, a report has found. The Hampton-Alexander review, which monitors gender balance in more than 20,000 senior leadership roles in UK-listed companies, said “surprisingly” there were still 44 […]
The biggest transformation in more than 50 years is about to be unleashed on Oxford Street. In the next 1,000 days some £2.9billion is set to be spent to "catalyse the birth of a new West End", the New West End Company has said. The organisation – which represents Oxford, Bond and Regent Street businesses […]