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Gold slumps ₹222 on weak global cues

That company, along with most advisers , does not necessarily recommend such high allocations for most investors. On Friday , the most-active April gold fut...

Amazon culls one million fake coronavirus products

For instance, a third-party merchant has reportedly offered a 2-pack respirator at $24.99, a hike from its average price of $6.65 previously sold by Amazon. Sev...

President Trump faces off with Democrats over coronavirus funding

But the others are in great shape. It comes days after the Centers for Disease Control warned the respiratory illness COVID-19 would nearly certainly hit c...

China February factory activity shrinks at record pace as virus bites

The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's non-manufacturing sector came in at 29.6 in February, down from 54.1 in January, the National Bureau of Statist...

Fed Coronavirus Rate Cut May Beat Bitcoin Inflation After 2020 Halving

Trump also said he was confident in the us stock market, after a week that saw the biggest loss in the S&P 500 index since 2008. The flip side of the equity...

Shocking Goldman Call Sees Zero Earnings Growth for US Companies in 2020

The bank's analysts cut their baseline earnings per share estimate for S&P 500 index companies to $165 from $174 in 2020, implying that profits will likely re...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey under threat from activist investor

Twitter is one of the few US technology companies headed, but not controlled, by one of its founders. The firm has nominated four directors for Twitter's boa...

New study shows pricy cars less likely to yield at crosswalks

Overall, cars were more likely to yield for women and white people compared to men and people of colour. But the best predictor of whether a auto would stop w...

Mainland China reports 573 new coronavirus cases on Feb. 29

The global ministry encouraged Iranians to stay clear of journeys to South Korea, which on Saturday reported its biggest day-to-day rise in the variety of infec...

Potential pandemic: Netizens criticise Trump for downplaying coronavirus outbreak

Next week, Congress is expected to expedite a bipartisan spending bill for the anti-virus campaign that could total between $6 billion and $8 billion. Politic...

Trump moves to calm virus fears after first death on United States soil

The patient was described as being in his late 50s and having a high health risk before contracting the virus. "Since the early stages of the foreign outbreak...

Govt announces major cut in petrol, diesel prices

It is to mention here that the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority ( OGRA ) had recommended a reduction in the prices of petrol and diesel. Qatar petroleum just ...

Citroen AMI Is A Tiny Electric Two-Seater That Will Impress You!

Yes, you can't replicate Fast and Furious stunts with it, and it doesn't have a lot of range, but the Ami was designed for city driving and narrow streets any...

USA reports first death due to coronavirus in Washington state

Since then, the Chinese government has put millions of its citizens on lockdown to prevent the spread of the virus. Several countries in the Middle East have re...

Coronavirus poses 'very high' global risk, World Health Organization warns

According to the man, who asked not to be named, his relatives in Iran believe the country's death toll from the virus is more than 100. But it is its rapid...

India's GDP growth slowed to 4.7% for the quarter ended in December

Sustained improvement in agricultural and services continue to drive the growth. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman termed the "steadiness" in the economy as...

South Korea reports 594 new coronavirus cases, bringing total close to 3,000

South Korea confirmed its first new coronavirus case from a Chinese woman from Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus outbreak, on January 20. "The Republic of Kor...

Toyota invests $607 million in autonomous driving startup

Founded in 2016, Pony.ai's investors also include Sequoia Capital China and IDG Capital. The investment comes as one of many, as Toyota finds itself strugglin...

S. Korea's virus cases approach 2,400, people urged to avoid mass gatherings

In China, transmission is largely happening in families. Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Arizona each reported one cases, all involving people who recently tra...

Amazon asks employees not to travel unless necessary

Earlier in the day, Amazon confirmed to Business Insider that it had instructed all 798,000 of its employees to "defer non-essential travel". Reuters and ...

Trump administration defends coronavirus response from rising criticism

The number of confirmed USA cases of the respiratory disease is still relatively small at roughly 60, majority repatriated American passengers from the Diamond ...

Worst week since 2008 global financial crisis as global indices nosedive

The worsening global threat from the virus prompted investors to rapidly step up bets the US Federal Reserve would cut interest rates as soon as next month to s...

SoftBank-backed DoorDash confidentially files for IPO

Food delivery unicorn DoorDash Inc. San Francisco-based DoorDash said it confidentially registered with market regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commi...

John Abraham will produce a film about social entrepreneur Revathi Roy

Revathi Roy is a serial entrepreneur who has been working towards empowering urban poor women since 2007 whether be it by pioneering Asia's first all-women taxi...

Bitcoin Pushes above $10,000, Targets $10,360 Resistance

Impressive to note that the coin has gained over 150% in two trading months from the 90-day low price of $170.27. However, despite the mixed reactions, one th...

Stocks In Free-fall: Dow Plummets 900 Points As Coronavirus Tightens Grip

To put that in perspective, the Dow's 508-point loss on October 19, 1987, was equal to 22.6%. Asian stock indexes finished down more than 3%, and markets also f...

Indias GDP growth at 4.7% in Dec quarter, marginal improvement over Q2

The data also showed that projections for economic growth in full FY20 had been retained at 5 per cent in the second advance estimates. However, the farm se...

Statistics Canada says economy grew at 0.3% annual pace in Q4

Household spending on services jumped by 0.8 per cent over the third quarter while business investment in machinery and equipment fell by 3.6 per cent, the thir...

Home Depot Ups Dividend as Earnings Beat Estimates

Same-store sales rose 5.2%, also better than expected. The home-improvement retailer on Tuesday posted net income of $2.48 billion, or $2.28 a share, compared...

Canada prepared to monitor for community spread of COVID-19: Tam

For a second day, the number of COVID-19 cases reported outside China has been larger than the number inside, and the World Health Organization is again war...