Category: World News

  • Biden desires to provide home consumers and builders a giant increase

    Biden desires to provide home consumers and builders a giant increase

    A building contractor frames a home under construction in Lehi, Utah, United States on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Private residential construction in the US rose 2.7% in November. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anyone looking to buy a home today is likely to be frustrated by the sky-high prices and slim selection. President-elect…

  • Pure gasoline costs in Asia could have peaked after latest highs: Eurasia

    Pure gasoline costs in Asia could have peaked after latest highs: Eurasia

    SINGAPORE – Natural gas prices in Asia hit a record high last week and are likely to fall from here, according to political risk adviser Eurasia Group. “We heard individual loads actually sold in the high 30s, I heard one at $ 39 [per million British thermal units]”said Henning Gloystein, director of energy, climate and…

  • First Shanghai-made crossovers delivered in China

    First Shanghai-made crossovers delivered in China

    Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks at an opening ceremony for the Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai on Jan. 7. Aly Song | Reuters Tesla has reportedly started supplying locally produced Model Y crossovers in China. This is another milestone for the electric car manufacturer in the world’s largest vehicle market. According to…

  • The “superpower” that led Maya Hari to run Twitter’s APAC enterprise

    The “superpower” that led Maya Hari to run Twitter’s APAC enterprise

    Maya Hari has made a name for herself as the second woman to lead Twitter’s Asia Pacific operations. As Vice President for APAC, she is responsible for overseeing the technical processes of the social media company, managing its business units and, increasingly, for socio-political issues. However, the Indian-born engineer who worked her way up in…

  • Trump Retains Republican Assist After Capitol Assault: NBC Ballot

    Trump Retains Republican Assist After Capitol Assault: NBC Ballot

    President Donald Trump retains overwhelming support from Republican voters in the final days of his tenure, an NBC News poll conducted after a crowd of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol shows. Nearly nine out of ten Republicans are in favor of Trump’s job performance, according to the poll, a number practically unchanged from the…

  • The British man is making a last-ditch effort to recuperate misplaced Bitcoin arduous drives

    The British man is making a last-ditch effort to recuperate misplaced Bitcoin arduous drives

    The reflection of bitcoins on a computer hard drive. Thomas Trutschel | Photo library via Getty Images LONDON – A British man who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing a lot of Bitcoin, again urges local city officials to have him look for it in a landfill. James Howells, a 35-year-old IT engineer from…

  • Jacob Fracker, a sergeant within the Virginia Nationwide Guard, was charged with a riot within the U.S. Capitol

    Jacob Fracker, a sergeant within the Virginia Nationwide Guard, was charged with a riot within the U.S. Capitol

    This January 6, 2021 photo, provided by the United States Capitol Police in a warrant of appeal and arrest, shows Rocky Mount Police Department Sgt. Thomas “TJ” Robertson and officer Jacob Fracker in the Capitol building in front of a statute of John Stark, a Revolutionary War officer known for writing the New Hampshire state…

  • Biden goes public with a tailwind

    Biden goes public with a tailwind

    President-elect Joe Biden speaks as he announces members of the business and jobs team at his interim headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware on Jan. 8, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President-elect Joe Biden moves into the White House next week with the greatest tailwind in the stock markets since a presidential election day dating back at…

  • Citigroup outcomes This autumn 2020

    Citigroup outcomes This autumn 2020

    Jane Fraser, General Manager for Latin America at Citigroup Inc., speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California on Monday, April 29, 2019. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg via Getty Images Citigroup is expected to post a fourth quarter profit ahead of the opening bell on Friday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings:…

  • Particulars on checks, unemployment, minimal wage introduced

    Particulars on checks, unemployment, minimal wage introduced

    President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday revealed the details of a $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package designed to aid households and businesses in the pandemic. The proposal, dubbed the American Rescue Plan, includes several well-known stimulus measures in the hopes that the additional tax support for U.S. families and businesses will remain in place until…