Business

Economy and business news. Business is the practice of making one’s living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also “any activity or enterprise entered into for profit”

Rebuilding of Paris’ Notre Dame Stalled as Pandemic Rages

Rebuilding of Paris’ Notre Dame Stalled as Pandemic Rages

A year after a fire that shocked the world and destroyed the roof of Paris’ ancient cathedral of Notre Dame,...

Rome Empty at Easter

Rome Empty at Easter

It is usually the most crowded week of the year in the Eternal City, but for the first time in...

Italy, Spain ICU Pressures Decline, but Emotional Toll Rises

Italy, Spain ICU Pressures Decline, but Emotional Toll Rises

 Maddalena Ferrari lets herself cry when she takes off the surgical mask she wears even at home to protect her...

European Markets Fall Wednesday as Coronavirus Optimism Fades

European Markets Fall Wednesday as Coronavirus Optimism Fades

European markets reversed course Wednesday after two days of gains, as optimism about the trend of the coronavirus pandemic was...

Head of EU’s Top Science Panel  Quits Over COVID-19 Response 

Head of EU’s Top Science Panel  Quits Over COVID-19 Response 

The head of the European Union’s top science organization has resigned in frustration at the height of the coronavirus crisis. Mauro...

Explosion on Road in Southeast Turkey Kills 5

Explosion on Road in Southeast Turkey Kills 5

An improvised explosive device went off on a road in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing five forestry workers traveling to...

PM Johnson Spends Second Night in Intensive Care

PM Johnson Spends Second Night in Intensive Care

A British official said Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in stable condition Wednesday after spending a second night in the...

Countries Worldwide in Different Stages of COVID-19 Trajectory

Countries Worldwide in Different Stages of COVID-19 Trajectory

Tuesday saw an increase in deaths and new COVID-19 cases in Britain, France, some eastern European countries, Sweden, Japan and...

OPEC Meeting Could End Oil Tug-of-War Between Russia, Saudi Arabia

OPEC Meeting Could End Oil Tug-of-War Between Russia, Saudi Arabia

Russia and Saudi Arabia meet with other countries Thursday on cutting oil production while they continue a price war that has driven down U.S. gasoline and...

To the Farms, Citoyens! France Urges Citizens to Fill Labor Gaps

To the Farms, Citoyens! France Urges Citizens to Fill Labor Gaps

Across a locked-down France, strawberries, lettuce and asparagus are ripening, near-ready for picking. Other plants are poking through the warming...

Smart Thermometer Shows Fevers Dropping in Areas with Sheltering Measure

Smart Thermometer Shows Fevers Dropping in Areas with Sheltering Measure

In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, one sign that social distancing measures may be working is that people’s temperatures...

Spain Sees Uptick in Spread of COVID Cases, Overnight Deaths

Spain Sees Uptick in Spread of COVID Cases, Overnight Deaths

After dropping for straight days, Spain’s health ministry announced Tuesday both the coronavirus daily rate of new infections and the...

Gamers Check Back in to Habbo Hotel as Coronavirus Refuge 

Gamers Check Back in to Habbo Hotel as Coronavirus Refuge 

Habbo Hotel, a hit online networking game more than a decade ago, is drawing back hundreds of thousand of players...

Ukraine Fights Fires in Chernobyl Zone, Says no Radiation Jump

Ukraine Fights Fires in Chernobyl Zone, Says no Radiation Jump

Local authorities in Ukraine have dismissed residents’ concerns that forest fires near the Chernobyl nuclear power station have led to...

UK’s Johnson Is Stable in ICU with Virus, Received Oxygen

UK’s Johnson Is Stable in ICU with Virus, Received Oxygen

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in stable condition Tuesday in a hospital intensive care unit with the coronavirus, and...

Italy Announces Additional Economic Aid Package

Italy Announces Additional Economic Aid Package

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced a $434 billion package of additional economic aid for Italian companies of all...

Taiwan Tells Agencies Not to Use Zoom on Security Grounds

Taiwan Tells Agencies Not to Use Zoom on Security Grounds

Taiwan’s cabinet has told government agencies to stop using Zoom Video Communications Inc’s conferencing app, the latest blow to the...

Hackers’ New Target During Pandemic: Video Conference Calls 

Hackers’ New Target During Pandemic: Video Conference Calls 

Ceri Weber had just begun to defend her dissertation when the chaos began: Echoes and voices interrupted her. Someone parroted...

Coronavirus Keeps Johnson Hospitalized, Brings Emergency Order to Japan

Coronavirus Keeps Johnson Hospitalized, Brings Emergency Order to Japan

Japan on Tuesday declared a coronavirus emergency in parts of the country, while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained hospitalized with COVID-19 and...

Australian Court Dismisses Cardinal’s Sex Abuse Convictions

Australian Court Dismisses Cardinal’s Sex Abuse Convictions

Australia’s highest court has dismissed the convictions of the most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse. High Court Chief...

Turkish Lockdown Calls Grow as Epidemic Continues  

Turkish Lockdown Calls Grow as Epidemic Continues  

With Istanbul the epicenter of Turkey’s COVID-19 epidemic, the city is becoming the political battleground over how to defeat the virus.  Istanbul’s mayor...

US Designates Russian White Supremacist Group as Terror Organization

US Designates Russian White Supremacist Group as Terror Organization

The United States has designated the white supremacist group Russian Imperial Movement (RIM,) as a global terrorist organization, an unprecedented...