A new research conducted by Climate Central, a US-based non-profit news organization, has conclude that later this century, millions more people will be put at risk because of coastal flooding due to rising sea levels driven by climate change. The research also noted that areas that are projected to be below high-tide lines come 2100…
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that was scheduled to be held in Santiago in mid-November will be cancelled, the Chilean government has announced. This summit had assumed importance all across the world because the United States President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping were supposed to sign an initial trade agreement – called the…
The sale of shingles vaccine of GlaxoSmithKline beat market expectations and the continued good performance of the company’s older medicines, including HIV treatments prompted the drug making company to raise its annual profit forecast for the second time this year. Following the announcement by the British drug maker about its expectations of profit for the…
The first eight months of the current year have been good for Japanese car companies operating in China despite the prolonged downturn in the Chinese auto market, with 14 straight months of contraction, as well as the broader Chinese economy. According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, in August, the overall vehicle sale in…
The pressure for making rapid technological advancement in the field of autonomous driving and self driving cars is pushing global auto companies to invest more time resources. This is evident in the decision of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen AG to create a new subsidiary called Volkswagen Autonomy (VWAT)completely dedicated to self driving tech. The…
The largest private coal miner in the United States, Murray Energy, has been forced to file for bankruptcy because of the slow but steady downfall and closure of the coal industry in the United States. This bankruptcy however was being expected for years now. Recently, it was unable to make lender payments and an agreement…
An increase in the sale of cancer drug Ibrance as well as a great launch for its new heart medicine Vyndaqel propelled the third quarter profits for Pfizer Inc which beats estimates of analysts after the company announced its earnings on Tuesday. The strong third quarter performance prompted the company, the largest drugmaker of the…
Despite its third quarter earnings being impacted by the 40-day strike against General Motors by the United Auto Workers, the United States auto maker managed to report a profit for the quarter because of the presence of a good amount of inventory with the company when the strike was announced and implemented in the middle…
Twitter Inc cited issues with advertising efforts, which included product bugs and unusually low demand over the summer as the reasons for the social media company posting both revenues and profits much lower than what the market was expecting for the third quarter. The bad earnings report also resulted in a sharp drop in Twitter…
A $271 million bid for the bankrupt luxury department store Barneys New York by brand developer Authentic Brands Group has been challenged by Israeli businessman Samuel Ben-Avraham who announced that he had put in a contending offer for the company. Barneys New York had applied for bankruptcy in August and since then has been seeking…
