Lufthansa pilots’ strike wreaks havoc on flight schedule
BERLIN (Reuters) – Lufthansa pilots in Germany began a two-day strike on Wednesday, grounding some 1,800 flights at one of Europe’s largest airlines in a long-running pay dispute.
Exclusive: Sonangol delays payments as it battles to reform
LONDON (Reuters) – Angola’s state oil company Sonangol has amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in debts and deferred payments to oil majors and contractors while its new chief, Isabel dos Santos, attempts to reform its operations.
Exclusive: Sonangol delays payments as it battles to reform
LONDON (Reuters) – Angola’s state oil company Sonangol has amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in debts and deferred payments to oil majors and contractors while its new chief, Isabel dos Santos, attempts to reform its operations.
Jobless claims rebound from 43-year low, labor market still firming
WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – – The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose from a 43-year low last week, but remained below a level that is consistent with a
Jobless claims rebound from 43-year low, labor market still firming
WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – – The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose from a 43-year low last week, but remained below a level that is consistent with a
U.S. retailers push deals early as Black Friday loses focus
CHICAGO (Reuters) – With sales on Black Friday slipping, U.S. retailers are offering pre-Thanksgiving deals even earlier than in recent years to draw shoppers as the day after no longer marks a spending peak at brick-and-mortar chains.
Facebook builds censorship tool to attain China re-entry: NYT
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc has quietly developed a censorship tool that could persuade China to allow the world’s biggest social media network to re-enter the world’s second largest economy after a seven-year ban, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Illinois fix to unpaid bills may end up as financial time bomb
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois owes a handful of financial consortia more than $118 million under an obscure program intended to speed up overdue payments to the cash-strapped state’s vendors, an analysis of state records shows.
As Trump disses TPP, China says to ‘play role’ in Asia-Pacific integration
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will “play its role” in promoting economic integration in the Asia-Pacific, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would kill an ambitious regional trade pact.
Oil prices capped by doubts OPEC-led cut will end glut
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices edged higher on Wednesday but gains were capped by investors’ doubts that oil cartel OPEC would agree to a large enough production cut to significantly reduce the global surplus when it meets next week.
