Most U.S. stocks fell following a mixed round of data on the economy, keeping them on track for their worst week since April.

With all the complaints about Standard & Poor’s these days, let’s not drag Henry Varnum Poor into it. That would be the artist Henry Varnum Poor (1888-1970), painter of landscapes, portraits and still ...

Refuse workers in the east London borough of Redbridge have voted against holding a two-week strike over working conditions in what would have been their second walk-out this summer. Unite had ...

Citing "numerous ongoing unsafe working conditions," the union representing courthouse staff sent a letter to the Mass. Trial Court on Aug. 15 calling for the closure, and threatening to take ...

A Kenyan city was forced to remove statues commemorating the country’s national athletics heroes after public outcry over their embarrassingly poor likenesses. Authorities in Eldoret ...

The CEO of the Standard Bank Group has announced plans to increase its stake in the Nigerian bank, Stanbic IBTC Holdings. Sim Tshabalala noted this while speaking about plans to increase the group’s ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 15 (Reuters) - South Africa's Standard Bank (SBKJ.J), opens new tab said on Thursday its half-year profit rose by 4%, helped by franchise growth in its banking businesses and ...

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But their conviction that the media are employing a “double standard” is actually backward. It is Donald Trump who is being held to a lower standard than Harris. The main indictment of the ...

Here's everything you need to know about this influential index. Developed by Standard & Poor's (now S&P Global), the S&P 500 launched in 1957. But its status as a proxy for the U.S. equity market ...