TOKYO – Upbeat Chinese manufacturing data pushed Australian stocks higher on Monday, while shares in Hong Kong dropped lower as investors took the opportunity to sell...
ABUJA – The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, says electricity generation in the country will hit 6,000 megawatts before December. Nebo said this in Nsukka...
NEW YORK – Oracle Corp is likely to buy Micros Systems in a $5 billion deal, expected to be announced as early as Monday morning, the...
MONACO – French bank BNP Paribas is likely to pay $8 billion to $9 billion as part of a potential settlement with U.S. authorities over violations...
FRANKFURT – Deutsche Telekom is in talks with U.S. video streaming company Netflix about a possible marketing alliance, a German magazine reported on Friday. German monthly...
NEW YORK – Google Inc’s Nest Labs will buy home-monitoring camera startup Dropcam for about $555 million in cash, technology blog Re/code reported on Friday, taking...
WASHINGTON – T-Mobile US Inc said on Wednesday it’s offering at least a million cellphone users the chance to use an Apple Inc iPhone in a...
NEW YORK – US crude oil jumped above $107 a barrel on Friday, reaching a new nine-month high on the back of profit-taking from the July...
FREETOWN -The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first review of Sierra Leone’s economic program under a three-year arrangement under the...
ACCRA – Ghana’s government reintroduced fuel subsidies in April, without announcing the move, and has spent around $85 million since then in extra payments, the head...
