CEO of Philip Morris, the company that makes Marlboro, says cigarette sales may end within ten to fifteen years business Article 290 words 9 votes
LVMH backs out of $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, citing US threats of tariffs on French goods. Tiffany has filed a lawsuit to enforce the agreement business Article 126 words 6 votes
Private equity firm Blackstone Group will acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion, placing a big bet on family-tree chasing as well as personalized medicine business Article 273 words 17 votes
eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces business Article 350 words 6 votes
Netflix shares fall after lower-than-expected earnings and appointment of co-CEO, weak guidance for subscriber growth in third quarter business Article 305 words 11 votes
Amazon may face EU antitrust charges over merchant data in coming weeks business Article 243 words 5 votes
Grubhub to merge with European food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway.com business Article 342 words 5 votes
America’s only public bank, the Bank of North Dakota, is number one in saving small businesses banking economics business.small Article 334 words 10 votes
Elon Musk tweets "Tesla stock price is too high imo", shares fall business Article 165 words 34 votes
Norway will slash its oil output from June to December of 2020 – the first time in eighteen years it has joined other major producers to shore up prices business Article 122 words 9 votes
President Donald Trump seeks to add seventy-five million barrels of oil to US Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid historic price crash Article 229 words 11 votes
America's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, prepares for a massive round of defaults banking Article 238 words 7 votes
US President Donald Trump removes independent watchdog for coronavirus funds, upending oversight panel Article 105 words 14 votes
US House of Representatives passes stimulus bill, signed by President Trump Article 375 words 11 votes
Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, named a London-based hedge fund manager as its new chief executive on Thursday Article 212 words 4 votes
USPS needs 1,000 workers in the SF Bay Area to keep up with delivery demands business Article 218 words 10 votes
Costco will not allow returns on high-demand items like toilet paper, water and more business Article 334 words, published Mar 19 2020 19 votes
Video game retail chain GameStop classifies itself as "essential retail" to justify its stores staying open despite lockdowns business Article 191 words 14 votes
Dollar General cuts store hours, dedicates hour to senior shoppers during coronavirus pandemic business Article 276 words 8 votes
Federal Reserve launches special fund to keep credit flowing in US economy during coronavirus scare Article 273 words 4 votes
Amazon ramps hiring, opening 100,000 new roles to support people relying on Amazon’s service business Article 386 words 7 votes
Federal Reserve cuts rates to zero and launches massive $700 billion quantitative easing program economics Article 242 words 22 votes
PepsiCo to acquire energy drink maker Rockstar Energy in a $3.85 billion deal business Article 270 words 9 votes
SSAB has teamed up with Vattenfall and LKAB to build a pilot plant for the world's first fossil fuel free steel-making process business Article 5 votes
Norway's sovereign wealth fund made a 19.9% return on investment last year, earning a record 1.69 trillion Norwegian crowns ($180 billion) economics Article 276 words 15 votes
Eight candidates have applied to head Norway’s sovereign wealth fund – board prepares to decide who should steer the global portfolio through a time of transition Article 348 words 6 votes
Danish social worker accused of stealing 117 million Danish kroner of government funding for more than twenty-five years Article 245 words 5 votes
Varo Money receives FDIC approval, enabling it to become America's first standalone national digital bank banking Article 363 words 5 votes
Why Swexit is unthinkable – trade ties make Sweden's European Union departure unthinkable economics Article 5 votes
China's markets will reopen tomorrow, with the central bank intending to inject 1.2 trillion yuan ($174B) worth of liquidity Article 77 words 6 votes
Fitch downgrades Finland's outlook, raising doubts about return to AAA rating economics Article 290 words 4 votes
Finland's financial watchdog probes Nokia's October share crash – CEO Rajeev Suri denies that the company tried to keep its 5G troubles secret business Article 226 words 4 votes
China has called off two business delegation visits to Sweden after Stockholm presented a rights prize to dissident Gui Minhai business Article 350 words 6 votes