Futures slide as oil price slump hammers energy stocks
U.S. stock index futures fell on Monday as a slump in oil prices pounded energy stocks, with investors also bracing for another batch of dour...
Oil falls on concern over storage and earnings
Oil prices fell on Monday, with a U.S. crude futures contract hitting its lowest level since 1999, depressed by concern that U.S. crude storage will...
UK’s Prince Philip breaks retirement silence to thank those fighting COVID-19
Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, made a rare statement on Monday to thank those involved in the fight against the COVID-19...
Coronavirus pushes Latin America’s budding startups into survival mode
The chief executive of Colombian food technology startup Muy had expected to spend the past few weeks gearing up to raise a dollop of fresh...
Coronavirus takes toll on global M&A as $1 billion deals disappear
For the first time since September 2004, no merger and acquisition deal worth more than $1 billion was announced worldwide last week, according to data...
Coronavirus crisis stoking anti-Semitism worldwide: report
The coronavirus crisis is stirring anti-Semitism around the world, fuelled by centuries-old lies that Jews are spreading infection, researchers in Israel said on Monday....
Empty resorts spell long crisis for Caribbean as coronavirus hits
No one is swimming in the turquoise Caribbean waters of Cuba’s Varadero beach resort, nor lounging on its white, palm-fringed beaches. Its hundreds of hotels,...
NFL: League navigates cyber risk as draft moves online
With countless hours of research and planning kept as closely guarded as the President’s nuclear football, cyber security is in focus for this week’s NFL...
Taiwan virus cases jump after ship visit, Palau says not the source
Taiwan reported 22 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, almost all of them sailors who were on a navy visit to the small Pacific islands state...
Kept home by COVID-19, U.S. politics goes virtual with digital dance parties and avatars
When stay-at-home orders sparked by the coronavirus forced him to find new ways to reach young voters ahead of the November U.S. election, Felix Clarke...