New York (CNN Business)Store closures in America are expected to drop to a five-year low in 2021– but that’s not exactly good news. The reason is that the industry, which has been hurt in recent years by a shift to online shopping, may have bottomed out last year, when closures […]

The presidents of five unions representing journalists are calling on President Joe Biden to support news crews and their families who are trying to flee Afghanistan. “The United States government must stand behind a free press,” they said in a letter sent to Biden today. “We now ask for your […]

As Axel Foley would say: “Okay, everybody’s ready here, okay.” Everybody is here to the tune of almost $15.8 million for Netflix and Paramount’s Beverly Hills Cop 4 with Eddie Murphy and producer Jerry Bruckheimer to be specific. That’s the amount the long-awaited sequel will be getting in tax credits […]

MingYang Smart Energy says its MySE 16.0-242 wind turbine will have a capacity of 16 megawatts. With the scale of both turbines and offshore wind farms increasing, attempts are also being made to gain insight into how they interact with the marine environment. In this article SGRE-ES VWS-DK MingYang Smart Energy […]

After coming under pressure early in the session, the major U.S. stock indexes turned mixed over the course of the trading day on Monday. The Dow and the S&P 500 recovered to end the day at new record closing highs, while the Nasdaq regained ground but still closed in the […]

Target will nearly triple the number of Disney shops inside its stores to more than 160 by the end of year. The company has turned its big-box stores into mall-like destinations, with scaled-down Starbucks, Ulta Beauty and Disney shops. Macy's announced earlier this week that it will expand its toy […]

The song remains the same, and it will for the foreseeable future. The Federal Reserve will not be raising rates until probably late 2022, so we remain in a setting with coupons on government securities still close to generational lows. Certificates of deposit at banks are wretched, with the best […]

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s fire department scrambled firefighting aircraft and ground forces as at least two new blazes broke out in areas already scarred by wildfires this summer, with strong winds complicating efforts to contain them. The first broke out Monday morning in the south of Evia, Greece’s second-largest island, […]

President Tsai Ing-wen got vaccinated with Taiwan's first domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine on Monday. The health ministry last month approved the emergency use of the Medigen vaccine, part of a broader plan for inoculation self-sufficiency as delays in global vaccine deliveries have affected Taiwan.  Medigen rejects claims its vaccine is either unsafe […]

The increase in 95-octane gasoline prices would take effect immediately, the government said in a statement. The fuel crisis worsened this month when the central bank said it could no longer finance fuel imports at heavily subsidized exchange rates and would switch to market rates. The Lebanese government said on […]