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For India’s youth, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget speech on Feb. 1 was mostly salad dressing and hardly any meat.All eyes were...

Toward the end of the year, Jeff Bezos will step down from his role as CEO of Amazon, the company he founded and built into the dominant fo...

If you’re a European or US company trying to get your goods shipped from China, good luck.Competition for container space has soared, result...

Dolly Parton’s hit song “9 to 5” is a rousing critique of the American workplace. Released in 1980 as the theme song for the film 9 to 5, co...

Pfizer expects to sell $15 billion worth of Covid-19 vaccines in 2021. That would make it the second-highest revenue-generating drug anytime...

In another stark sign of the pandemic’s impact on office-space demand, data from Costar Group, a commercial real estate firm, shows there is...

ExxonMobil posted a fourth-quarter loss of $20.1 billion on Feb. 2—its fourth consecutive quarter in the red—after writing down $19 billion...

Uber is looking even more like a delivery company than a ride-hailing business.Uber announced Tuesday that it will buy Drizly, an alcohol de...

The borders of India’s national capital could give some of the most war-torn areas on the planet a complex right now.Over the past two days,...

Every play during a pandemic is, by necessity, experimental. For the few theater companies that are attempting to hold live performances, ev...

The short video quickly went viral: a single police officer sprinting up a street while rapidly unrolling police tape, with half a dozen som...

India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman completely ignored cryptocurrencies in her almost two-hour-long budget speech yesterday (Feb. 1)...

Indian startups running a one-man show are in for a treat.On Feb. 1, Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed the scrapping of ca...

Kamala Harris caused a stir this past September when she stepped off a plane in Milwaukee.Harris was there campaigning after Joe Biden sele...

GameStop hasn’t crashed out yet.Not only is the Reddit-inspired short squeeze on the video game retailer’s stock still in play—it’s spreadin...

It took only a few weeks for a group of Reddit users to send GameStop’s stock soaring and throw Wall Street into a frenzy. It took even less...

Eventually, the party will end. Even enthusiastic members of the Reddit forum WallStreetBets, who have been boosting the stock price of Game...

With the Covid-19 pandemic rampaging the global economy, governments across the world are trying to maintain a balance between spending to s...

In an example of how Covid-19 has changed governance, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed healthcare as the first item on her unio...

Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had to walk a tightrope today (Feb. 1) as she presented the Narendra Modi government’s ninth unio...

???? The Big IdeaTravel in 2021 is going to be a stop-and-go journey, as governments and businesses try to figure out an equitable plan to g...

As the first US president since the Civil Rights era to make racial justice a prime concern, Joe Biden has identified racial equity as a top...

Sub-Saharan Africa will see moderate but positive growth of 2.7% this year, a welcome rebound from the region’s first recession of 25 years...

If last week’s stock market frenzy surrounding GameStop had any public value, it might be that it served as an introduction for many to the...

While Netflix, Disney, and other media conglomerates were battling it out for streaming TV dominance, another type of streaming war was ragi...