The French economy posted a slower growth in the third quarter, thanks to a stagnation in household spending due to high inflation, and the weak foreign demand, preliminary data from the statistical office INSEE revealed Friday. Gross domestic product grew 0.2 percent from the second quarter, when the economy expanded […]

Sydnee Rimes has been promoted to senior vice president of series at ABC Signature. Rimes, who has been at the studio since 2010, will oversee all current series for the studio and will lead the series department. She will report to ABC Signature President Jonnie Davis. In her new role, […]

The Labor Department released a report on Thursday showing a modest increase in first-time claims for U.S. unemployment benefits in the week ended October 22nd. The report said initial jobless claims inched up to 217,000, an increase of 3,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 214,000. Economists had expected […]

The United States has called on all countries to fully implement UN Security Council resolutions related to North Korea in the wake of a series of intercontinental ballistic missile launches carried out by the Communist regime. The UN resolutions call for sanctions which are intended to prohibit North Korea from […]

Investors might react to major earnings reports on Wednesday. Alphabet, Microsoft, Mattel, Spotify as well as Visa are the major corporates reporting their quarterly results after the close of today’s trading. More clues on the economic and rate outlook are expected from the third-quarter U.S. GDP data, due later this […]

YouTube is getting into the third-party streaming subscription game, launching Primetime Channels, a hub where consumers can sign up for Showtime, Starz, Paramount+ and more than 30 other services. The initiative is starting in the U.S., the company confirmed in a blog post. Visitors to YouTube can access Primetime Channels […]

As Google evaluates its response to two recent penalties slapped by the Competition Commi­s­sion of India (CCI), here is a look at the app economy. Apps are bread and butter for mobile operating systems. India ranks second in the number of mobile downloads, with nearly 27 billion downloads in 2021, […]

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META), holds a controlling block of stock in the public company. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing states that he can control the outcome of matters that require shareholder approval and decide who is on the board […]

Credit card issuers saw significant erosion of their card base during the July-September quarter as the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) norms mandated deactivation of cards that have been inactive for a year. The second quarter of the current financial year saw outstanding cards-in-force decline by 2.55 million to 77.7 […]

Asian markets ended mixed on Monday, with Chinese and Hong Kong stocks suffering heavy losses as China’s Communist Party ended its 20th National Congress over the weekend with no signs of a significant change in the zero-COVID policy that has crimped business and trade. In addition, Xi Jinping, who secured […]