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President Joe Biden said workers in Alabama and across the country have the right to join a union without intimidation from their companies. His comments come as Amazon workers in the state are voting on whether they should unionize.

Senior officials from Europe have urged the World Bank's management to expand its climate change strategy to exclude investments in oil and coalrelated projects around the world, and gradually phase out investment in natural gas projects, according to thr...

The gross domestic product (GDP) had expanded by 3.3% in the corresponding period of 2019-20, according to data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO).

Dutch competition authorities are nearing a draft decision in a yearslong investigation into Apple Inc over rules requiring software developers to use its inapp payment system, according to a letter sent this month to some of the developers involved in t...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for April delivery rose 31 cents to $63.53 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude oil for April delivery fell 16 cents to $66.88 a barrel.

Technical glitches have disrupted trading at several stock exchanges in the Asia Pacific region in recent months.

HDFC Bank was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising around 3 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, SBI, Axis Bank, HDFC and Reliance Industries.

Wall Street reversed its losses late Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow reclaiming positive territory by the close in a tugofwar between stocks that thrived amid lockdowns and those that stand to benefit most from a reopening economy.

Separate data from the Office for National Statistics showed that the number of employees on company payrolls in January rose by 83,000 from December, the second monthly increase and its biggest since January 2015.

Packaged food giants including Kraft Heinz, General Mills and Kellogg are pushing sales of their products to consumers directly via their own online channels, in a quest to gather more data about shoppers' purchasing habits.

The Federal Reserve says there's evidence that hiring has picked up in recent weeks, though the job market remains badly damaged by the pandemic.

Gold prices fell to their lowest in more than seven months on Friday, on course for their worst week since the end of November, as rising U.S. Treasury yields eroded the nonyielding bullion's appeal.

February 17, is expected to give a negative start as the SGX Nifty was trading 16.00 points or 0.10 percent lower at 15,243.80 at 7:46 am. On February 16, the BSE Sensex declined 49.96 points or 0.096 percent to close at 52,104.17 whereas the NSE Nifty fe...

The euro zone is likely to decide between March and May when and how governments would start tapering support to their economies as vaccination campaigns allow the lifting of pandemic lockdowns and economic activity picks up, top euro zone officials said...

Sebi may discuss the new norms on February 17 along with several other issues such as the gold spot exchange, investor charter and strict norms to make independent directors accountable. The proposed changes will help large companies like Life Insurance C...

Iran said on Monday it will block snap inspections by the U.N. nuclear watchdog from next week if other parties to the 2015 nuclear deal do not fulfil their obligations, a challenge to U.S. President Joe Biden's hope of reviving the accord.