Despite market volatility, executives across the globe still have appetites for corporate takeovers, says a new EY study. That’s what has been diving the recent wave of mergers and acquisitions, and we’ll see more over the coming year, adds EY, which finds 59% of global companies are planning to secure at least one deal over […]
Does your cafeteria serve bacon or ham? If so, the likelihood of your employees getting cancer might be higher. Ham, sausage and other processed meats can lead to colon, stomach and other cancers—and red meat is probably cancer-causing, too. Read: Unequal funding and treatment for cancer costs employers While doctors have long warned against eating […]
Congressional Democrats are pressing a Republican committee chairman to force a pharmaceutical company to turn over documents tied to price hikes imposed earlier this year.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says growing up as an economic migrant himself shaped his views on many of the major issues he’s tackling now as head of one of the leading institutions fighting global poverty.
Poland's President Andrzej Duda says he is asking the country's lawmakers to lower the retirement age, in a move that reverses a recent reform by the government.
As it does once each quarter, the Federal Reserve will deliver a triple-dose of news Thursday afternoon—a policy statement, economic forecasts and a news conference by chair Janet Yellen. But all eyes will be on one question:Is the Fed raising interest rates from record lows?
Target is going on a health kick, aimed at both customers and its employees.
Will they or won’t they? Nine years after they last raised their benchmark interest rate and after months of feverish speculation, Federal Reserve policymakers this week may finally raise that rate from a record low near zero. Unless they don’t.
The founder of a Wall Street firm who lost a recent sexual harassment lawsuit has been arrested on securities fraud charges. Benjamin Wey was arrested Thursday at his Manhattan home. He is the founder and president of New York Global Group, an investment consulting firm. Read: Why investors are selling stocks The 43-year-old executive is […]
China has cut interest rates for fifth time in nine months in a new effort to shore up slowing economic growth.