Alexis Tsipras pledges to raise wages, cut taxes and boost welfare spending
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has announced a raft of relief measures “to mend wounds” created during Greece’s prolonged economic crisis, as he attempts to recover the popularity he has lost since enforcing contentious austerity measures.
LSU is tied for 140th among national universities, according to college rankings released Monday by U.S. News & World Report.
Tulane University, which is a private school, is the highest-rated Louisiana college or university on the list at No. 44.
Number rises by 3,700 but many are foreign or non-doms who could leave after Brexit
The number of people in the UK earning more than £1m a year has jumped to over 18,700, with more than one in 10 of them living in Kensington and Chelsea, according to figures released by HM Revenue & Customs.
TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week:
Bread and butter
Empire Company Ltd. releases first-quarter results and holds its annual meeting on Thursday. Empire CEO Michael Medline said in June that tariffs on some U.S. food products that went into effect July 1 could mean higher prices for Canadian shoppers.
Ma will be succeeded by company’s CEO Daniel Zhang
Jack Ma, who founded e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and helped launch China’s e-commerce boom, announced Monday he will step down as the company’s chair next September.
Debenhams has brought in advisers from KPMG to assess a number of options to improve the fortunes of the department store chain.
It is in the midst of a turnaround plan designed to cut costs and boost sales.
The company played up certain results, but investors focused on the weak spots
Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. stock dropped 23.6% in extremely active Wednesday trade after the company released early results from a gene-editing trial for a rare metabolic disorder called Hunter syndrome. Shares continued their fall on Thursday, dropping 4.6%.
The size of the country’s middle class remained stable, but financial gains were modest
While the lower and upper classes have increased in size over the past decade, the once-shrinking American middle class appears to holding ground.
Millennials may be flocking to bitcoin rather than investing in more traditional assets, but most Americans might want to take a class in the cryptocurrency.
At the anniversary of the Equifax Inc. breach disclosure, the biggest headache for executives in charge of protecting company data has to do with choices — as in, way too many of them.
Weekly Market Review – November 23, 2024
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Nvidia Beats Earnings Expectations as Investors Eye Demand for Blackwell AI Chips
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) Shares Up 0.3% – Should You Buy?
Visa (NYSE:V) Shares Up 0.6% – What’s Next?
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Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Stock Price Down 1.9% Following Insider Selling
Ukraine Has Seen Success in Building Clean Energy, Which Is Harder for Russia to Destroy
