Business & Money

Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa pledged on Wednesday to significantly increase the investment in science by 2030. “We have a very ambitious goal that we must achieve by 2030 — to increase the investment in […]

Members of the German Bundestag (federal parliament) debated the country’s draft budget for 2020 presented by Finance Minister Olaf Scholz . According to Scholz’s plans, Germany will spend around 360 billion euros (397.5 billion U.S. […]

Gas exploitation in the northern Dutch province of Groningen is expected to stop in mid-2022, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Eric Wiebes announced on Tuesday in a letter to the parliament. The Dutch government is […]

The BMW Group’s vehicle sales increased year-on-year by 4.4 percent to a total of around 181,000 vehicles in August, the German luxury car maker announced on Monday. The biggest driver of growth was BMW’s sports […]

France’s leading energy company Total announced on Thursday that it had agreed with Russia’s Novatek and their Chinese partner China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) a final investment decision on “a major liquefied natural gas […]

New car sales in Britain fell slightly in August as electric car registrations surged, according to figures released here on Thursday by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Data showed that 92,573 new […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced a line of credit worth one billion U.S. dollars to the Russian Far East as an offer to further contribute to the region’s development. “This is the […]

Christine Lagarde, stressed the importance of “agility” from the European Central Bank (ECB) in the face of changes and challenges as she introduced her agenda as new ECB president during a hearing at the European […]

South Africa’s economy rose by 3.1 percent in the second quarter of 2019, a growth rate much stronger than the forecast growth of 2.4 percent by economists, according to statistics released last night. This quarter-on-quarter […]

Trade policy uncertainties and weak manufacturing data were the major reasons why U.S. equities suffered a sell-off on Tuesday. All three major indexes ended the day in red territory. The Dow erased 1.08 percent, the […]