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Indian equities plummeted 2.6%, posting the biggest single-day drop in three months, amid a slide in stock markets as risk-off sentiment intensified across global financial markets on Monday. Anxiety that the US Federal Reserve is on course…

Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s latest novel is “Violeta,” an epic tale that transports readers across a century of South American history, through economic collapse, dictatorship and natural disasters like an earthquake and a hurricaneBy…

Hampshire College has received an anonymous $5 million gift in honor of one of its most famous alumni, award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, that will help the school continue its academic transformationByThe Associated…

A late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall Street Thursday, leaving the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slightly below the record highs they set a day earlierBy The Associated PressDecember 30, 2021, 9:21 PM• 1…

Stocks were modestly higher Thursday, helped by a bit of good economic dataBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business WriterDecember 30, 2021, 6:49 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleStocks were modestly higher Thursday, helped…

Asian stock markets have risen after Wall Street hit a new high as fears of the coronavirus’s omicron variant easedBy JOE McDONALD AP Business WriterDecember 24, 2021, 4:06 AM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this…

COVID-19 vaccination passes have become obligatory for Tunisians, who will now be asked for proof they have received both vaccine doses to enter public spaces or keep working at state institutions, universities and certain private…

Stocks fell in morning trading on Wall Street Monday in a sluggish start to the week following the market’s best weekly gain since FebruaryBy DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business WriterDecember 13, 2021, 3:43 PM• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to…

A close aide of Angela Merkel's has told a German news outlet that the former chancellor wants to write an autobiographical book explaining her most important political decisionsByThe Associated PressDecember 10, 2021, 12:30 PM• 2 min…

Stocks are opening mostly higher on Wall Street, led by gains in airlines and other travel-related companies that would benefit from more reopening of the economy. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% in the early going Monday and the Dow Jones…