Finance News

September 24, 2020

Australian bank agrees to $919M fine for money laundering

Westpac, Australia’s second-largest bank, agreed to pay a 1.3 billion Australian dollar ($919 million) fine for breaches of ...

September 23, 2020

UK says no-deal Brexit could see 7,000-truck border queues

There there could be lines of 7,000 trucks at the English Channel and two-day waits to get into France immediately after the ...

September 23, 2020

German Cabinet approves 2021 budget with high borrowing

Germany's Cabinet on Wednesday approved a 2021 budget that foresees significant borrowing for the second consecutive year as ...

September 23, 2020

China blasts US House bill, denies forced labor in Xinjiang

China on Tuesday lashed out at the passage of a bill by the U.S. House of Representatives that threatens sanctions over the ...

September 21, 2020

Indian lawmakers pass farm bills amid uproar in Parliament

Amid an uproar in Parliament, Indian lawmakers on Sunday approved a pair of controversial agriculture bills that the ...

September 08, 2020

EU names Dombrovskis as its new trade chief

The European Union’s executive commission is proposing its experienced Latvian vice president, Valdis Dombrovskis, to take ...

September 05, 2020

Trump won't let Pentagon close Stars and Stripes newspaper

President Donald Trump said Friday that he won't allow the Pentagon to cut funding for the military's independent newspaper, ...

September 03, 2020

German prosecutors drop probe of journalists over Wirecard

German prosecutors said Thursday they have closed an investigation into two journalists with the Financial Times that was ...

September 02, 2020

Report: Algorithm question complicates TikTok sale

Sale talks for TikTok’s U.S. operations have been complicated by the key question of whether the app’s core algorithms can ...

August 31, 2020

UN labor body: Qatar 'dismantles' kafala employment system

New labor rules in the energy-rich nation of Qatar “effectively dismantles” the country's long-criticized “kafala” employment ...

August 30, 2020

Belarus cracks down on journalists, 2 AP staff deported

Belarus, shaken by three weeks of massive protests against its authoritarian president, on Saturday cracked down hard on the ...

August 21, 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Dems on minimum wage and poverty

Americans tuned into the Democratic National Convention were told Thursday that the higher minimum wage favored by ...

August 20, 2020

Reports: Nissan failed to report income for Ghosn in Japan

The case against former Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn may have taken another turn as Japanese media report allegations that ...

August 10, 2020

Romanian midwife championed in Britain as homeland in crisis

Queen Elizabeth II, David Bowie and ... Claudia Anghel? Anghel, an experienced Romanian midwife, has joined the star-studded ...

August 09, 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false push on preexisting conditions

President Donald Trump is teasing the possibility of executive action to require health insurance companies to cover ...

August 03, 2020

US Treasury projects record Q3 borrowing of $947 billion

The Treasury Department is projecting government borrowing of $947 billion in the current July-September period, which would ...

July 30, 2020

Spirit warns of layoffs; aid for contractors being examined

Spirit Airlines is warning employees that it could furlough up to 30% of its roughly 9,000 workers in October, when federal ...

July 29, 2020

How to take a high-interest loan and skip the debt cycle

For the millions of Americans who struggle to afford an unexpected expense, high-interest payday and online loans may seem ...

July 28, 2020

Turkish parliament to vote on controversial social media law

Turkish lawmakers were making their final speeches Tuesday before voting on a bill that would give the government greater ...

July 27, 2020

Woman accused of joining IS arrested on return to Germany

German prosecutors said Monday a German woman who allegedly joined the Islamic State group in Syria was arrested upon her ...