Amazon, the huge on-line retailer, introduced with nice fanfare that it's going to increase its minimal wage to $ 15 an hour, and can encourage others throughout the nation to do the identical. Is it unselfish public-mindedness, or political and aggressive pressures that's behind the transfer? Sorry, Jeff Bezos, ...

Efforts by the Argentinian central financial institution to stabilize the nationwide foreign money by elevating a key rate of interest to 60 % have performed little to assuage quickly deteriorating sentiment in Latin America’s third-largest economic ...

The wealth of a few of Russia’s richest shrunk on Monday following a suggestion by presidential aide Andrey Belousov to boost taxes on the nation's largest metals corporations. Learn Extra at mysouth.su ...

Costs for canned Coke in North America are set to rise partially as a result of monetary pressure linked to tariffs on overseas metal and aluminum launched by Washington earlier this yr, based on the Coca-Cola ...

Donald Trump has requested Saudi Arabia to drastically improve its oil manufacturing, citing “turmoil and dysfunction” in Iran and Venezuela. The US president says King Salman agreed, though that declare stays unconfirmed by Riyadh. Learn Extra ...

Russia’s Financial Improvement Ministry has slashed the nation’s financial development forecast for subsequent yr amid geopolitical uncertainty and a deliberate two-percent improve in value-added tax (VAT). Learn Extra at mysouth.su ...

India will droop commerce concessions and lift import duties on 30 merchandise from the US by as much as 50 %, in a mirror response to Washington’s impetuous transfer to impose tariffs on metal and aluminum ...

Moscow authorities have anti-fascists hold a rally in memory of Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. As head of the Moscow branch of the regional security Alexey Mayorov, the procession of street Tverskaya Tverskoy Boulevard Nikitsky Gate pass.