PepsiCo’s core soda brand, chips boost quarterly results
PepsiCo Inc’s quarterly revenue and profit beat Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, boosted by higher sales of its traditional Pepsi soda as well as snacks...
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to launch IPO by end of the year
British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic plans a stock market listing by the end of the year, becoming the first space tourism firm to tap...
Deutsche Bank in partnership talks with SoftBank-backed OakNorth: source
Deutsche Bank is in talks with SoftBank-backed British fintech firm OakNorth to use the latter’s credit analysis and monitoring platform, a source with knowledge of...
Doubts over Deutsche Bank turnaround plan dent shaky shares
Deutsche Bank shares extended losses on Tuesday on investor doubts that its chief executive can revive the lender by shrinking the investment bank and returning...
Two Kenyan athletes suspended for doping: AIU
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Tuesday it had provisionally suspended two Kenyan athletes, one of them a Commonwealth Games former champion, for doping,...
Oil edges up as supply concerns offset trade disputes
Oil edged further above $64 a barrel on Tuesday as OPEC supply cuts and Middle East tensions countered the U.S.-China trade dispute that has been...
Aramco awards $18 billion in contracts to boost capacity at Marjan, Berri oilfields
Saudi Aramco has awarded 34 contracts with a total value of $18 billion for engineering, procurement and construction projects at its Marjan and Berri oilfields,...
Biodegradable toy turns kids into paleontologists
‘Circular Species’ is a biodegradable toy woolly mammoth that teaches children about the carbon cycle, combining natural materials and augmented reality. Francesca Lynagh reports....
China’s PLA hints it will stay out of HK turmoil
The Chinese military commander responsible for Hong Kong has assured a Pentagon official that Chinese troops will not interfere in the city’s affairs – an...
U.S. billionaire Steyer enters 2020 Democratic presidential race: report
Billionaire donor and liberal activist Tom Steyer, who flirted with the idea of running for president earlier this year but declined, now says he will...