The one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin – previously owned by disgraced hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli and seized three years ago by federal prosecutors – has been sold by the feds to an anonymous bidder for a sum believed to be around $2.2 million. Jacquelyn […]

U.K. retailer Games Workshop has given employees a £5,000 ($6,942) bonus, following record sales and profits amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Games Workshop, which sells role-playing miniatures and games such as Warhammer, said in its annual results on Tuesday that it was splitting a £10.6 million discretionary bonus among its 2,600 […]

German automaker Daimler AG reported Wednesday a profit in its second quarter, compared to last year’s loss, with strong volume growth across all divisions. Looking ahead, Daimler anticipates revenue and EBIT in 2021 to be significantly above the prior year’s level. Meanwhile, worldwide shortage of supply of semiconductor components will […]

The unions say American is failing to provide adequate hotel rooms in a timely manner. The pilot and flight attendant unions filed grievances with the airline over the issues. In this article AAL Labor unions representing 40,000 American Airlines pilots and flight attendants say the carrier has failed to provide […]

Drug major Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday raised its forecast for fiscal 2021 earnings and revenues above market view, after reporting strong growth in second-quarter results. The company’s quarterly adjusted earnings and revenues also beat market estimates. In pre-market activity on the NYSE, JNJ shares were gaining around 1.22 percent […]

Simone Biles, who is considered the most accomplished gymnast of all time, withdrew from the team gymnastics competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to a mental health concern Tuesday.   "Whenever you get in a high stress situation you kind of freak out and don't really know how to […]

WASHINGTON — The signs and banners are dotted along suburban commercial strips and hanging in shop windows and restaurants, evidence of a new desperation among America’s service-industry employers: “Now Hiring, $15 an hour.” It is hardly the official federal minimum wage — at $7.25, that level hasn’t been raised since […]

Tuesday, Jeff Bezos along with his brother Mark Bezos and two other crew members completed his inaugural trip to space in Blue Origin’s New Shephard. Apart from the Bezos brothers, the crew included 82-year-old Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, who marked both the oldest and youngest individuals to reach […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Merck & Co., Inc.’s (MRK) anti-PD-1 therapy, KEYTRUDA, for the treatment of patients with high-risk early-stage triple-negative breast cancer or TNBC in combination with chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment and then continued as a single agent as adjuvant treatment after surgery, Merck said […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in an unprecedented surge in demand for homes in the United States. Inventory is at a record low, as is the average time homes are on the market. Meanwhile, both home prices and the share of homes selling above asking price have reached record highs.  […]