SINGAPORE: Sales of new private homes in Singapore plunged in the first quarter of the year along with a dip in prices, amid disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed on Friday (Apr 24). Expe
SINGAPORE: Hari Raya celebrations this year are set to differ from tradition with tightened COVID-19 social distancing measures and people discouraged from leaving their homes. However, the age-old tr
As the coronavirus crisis gripped the U.S. economy and Congress approved hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency small business loans, Utah builder Clark Ivory knew what to tell his local colleag
Swatch Group's sales at its own stores in China are up by almost a quarter during April, the watchmaker's Chief Executive Nick Hayek told Blick newspaper, but the global situation following th
Bondholders in particularly hard-hit sectors like energy, travel and leisure have another issue to watch for as companies struggle to survive the economic shutdown - getting demoted by new debt issues
Berrick Barnes retires after 15 years in professional rugby Fijivillage
The largest oil producer in North Dakota has halted most of its production in the U.S. state and notified some customers it would not supply crude after prices dived into negative territory this week,
Sunday Heineken Cup double-header on BT Sport EPCRugby.com
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said Friday that its first quarter sales surged in part due to stockpiling of the painkiller Doliprane, as other companies around the world struggle during the coron
Shopper Lexie Mayewski is having a hard time finding frozen french fries in Washington, D.C.-area supermarkets in the wake of coronavirus-fueled stockpiling.
A small bomb exploded outside a Fransabank branch in the southern city of Sidon Saturday, causing material damage but no casualties, security sources said.
Springbok rugby fans are still tormenting England 5 months after final Rugby OnSlaught
U.S. stock index futures gained on Friday with bargain hunters returning at the end of a tumultuous week marked by a record collapse in oil prices and growing evidence of the economic damage from the
Thailands budget and full-service carriers are seeking soft-loans worth 25 billion baht (US$770.65 million) from the government to support their businesses amid the coronavirus outbreak, an airline ex
Investors already braced for poor first-quarter earnings from major oil and gas companies next week will focus on how executives plan to save cash and whether they will cut dividends following the col
Credit card issuer American Express Co posted a 76 per cent drop in quarterly profit on Friday (Apr 24), as it set aside US$1.7 billion to brace itself against potential non-payments due to a wave of
China's retail investors take punts on everything from mainstream stocks to niche commodities and derivatives, and many were badly burned this week by exposure to U.S. oil contracts which collapse
Global oil supplies may be 6per cent less than expected by 2030 because of delays to investments by energy companies in response to falling crude prices due to the coronavirus crisis, data from energy
Toomua working hard on and off rugby field 7NEWS.com.au
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A French court on Friday rejected a request from the CGT union that a Carrefour hypermarket near Lille be forced to close aisles selling non-esssential products and it ordered the union to pay 1,000 e
Facebook's US$5.7 billion investment in Reliance promises to be the biggest headache yet for Paytm, a SoftBank-backed pioneer in India's digital payments market but which has been losing groun
After another disappointing EU summit, the European Central Bank finds itself in a familiar position as the leading saviour of the euro, once again being called upon to push out its boundaries while p
Verizon Communications Inc lost 68,000 phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill in the first quarter, as people stayed indoors due to lockdowns to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
LONDON: HSBC will press ahead with plans to reallocate capital from underperforming businesses, cut costs and strip out layers of management, despite problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Chief
