Business

Johannesburg: The African arm of Germany's Munich Re has dropped KPMG as its auditor, the latest company to distance itself from the accountancy firm...

Sydney: Miner and commodities trader Glencore has agreed to buy a further stake worth at least $531 million in Peru's largest zinc miner, Volcan...

San Francisco: Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the...

San Francisco: Uber Technologies Inc's fractured board declared peace on Tuesday, attempting to put months of strife behind it by unanimously passing a...

United Nations: Top Indian economist Arvind Panagariya has told the United Nations that the world export market worth nearly $22 trillion is extremely large...

New York: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought a major stake in Pilot Flying J, the largest US truck stop operator, and said it will become the...

Strasbourg: The European Union agreed new rules on Tuesday to guard against excessively cheap Chinese imports, ending 18 months of wrangling over trade ties...

Brussels: Britain and its European Union partners have agreed to ask the other members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to maintain the current level...

Hong Kong/New York: An Indian-American dealmaker for HNA Group, who recently held a big stake in the Chinese conglomerate, said he kept the shares for a...

Manila: The Philippines' plan to overhaul its tax system will only have a modest inflationary impact and will not need a monetary policy response, said...