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Gender pay gap at Tenet revealed

In its annual results report, Barclays said it was confident that men and women across its organisation were paid equally for doing the same job. Barclays h...

Britain's Standard Life Aberdeen sells insurance unit to Phoenix for $4.5-billion

Standard Life Aberdeen has struck a £3.2 billion deal to offload its insurance arm as it takes further steps to overhaul the business following an £11bn mega-m...

Enterprise Rent-A-Car to end discounts for NRA members

The Associated Press reports that FNBO is the nation's largest privately held bank. The announcement comes after First National Bank of Omaha, one of the ...

Zions Bancorporation Raises Position in Walt Disney Co (DIS)

Its share price has decline -26.31% in three months and is down -0.10% for the last five trades. Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS ) received a $125.00 target price from...

New York's Waldorf Astoria is now controlled by the Chinese government

Last May, the CIRC suspended the Beijing-based insurer from issuing new products for three months, as it singled out one of the insurer's product designs that i...

Here Are the Next Cities to Get Amazon Go Cashier-Less Stores

As a result, it is still unknown where these six new locations might open their doors, but speculation is stirring about Seattle, its original home, in additi...

Bitcoin Values Hit New Highs Following Early February Slump

The movement of BTC against the Dollars aside, the world of Bitcoin wasn't tiresome at all this past week. Last December, the value of bitcoin reached almos...

Air France says strike disruptions to hit flights on February 22

Other flights may also be delayed. Passengers will be contacted about cancellations and the airline requested people whose flights have been cancelled not to ...

Oil reverses course and rises as dollar backs off highs

Inventories usually rise at this time of year, as many refineries cut crude intake to conduct maintenance, but a bottleneck in Canada's pipeline system has redu...

Chesapeake Energy Corporation Stock Soars on Q4 Earnings Beat

About 50.90M shares traded or 62.53% up from the average. It has underperformed by 2.01% the S&P500. (NYSE: CHK ) opened at $2.73 on Tuesday. A P/B ratio of les...

Toys R Us to close additional 200 stores, reports Wall Street Journal

There is no list of stores expected to close in the new round yet. The store closings began this month. If the almost 400 Toys R Us closures are realized,...

Bahrain human rights activist Nabeel Rajab jailed for five years

Saudi Arabia has accused its regional rival, Iran, of encouraging its Shia-majority population to rise against Bahrain's minority Sunni rulers, allegations th...

Raj Nair, Ford's President of North America, Exits Company

On June 1, 2017 , he was named as Ford's executive vice president and the head of the North American division. When the AP contacted Nair by phone, he said he...

BC to seek reference case in courts over pipeline dispute

When asked which province - B.C., which wants to delay the project for environmental reasons, or Alberta , which wants to avoid delays for economic reasons - i...

The Olympic women's figure skating event just got interesting

The Olympic Athlete from Russian Federation scored 82.92 points and moved into first place ahead of compatriot Evgenia Medvedeva , who had earlier scored 81.61...

World's Second Richest Man Fails Grocery Price Quiz

Bill Gates must be so used to seeing numbers with extra zeros at the end that he has forgotten how much everyday items cost. So when he appeared on " The Ell...

Wall Street falls as Fed minutes send bond yields higher

Participants in the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting pointed to the tax cuts and improved global economic outlook as factors suppor...

The Final Countdown to Net Neutrality's Death Begins Today

Once it goes into effect, the FCC's "Restoring Internet Freedom Order" will undo an Obama-era regulation that allowed the FCC to enforce net neutrality-a princi...

All the Places With Cheap Margaritas Today for National Margarita Day 2018

It may be a work day, but that makes it the flawless excuse to get out in time for Happy Hour and start slugging back some margs - responsibly of course. A marg...

CBI arrests PNB GM, seals Nirav's Mumbai farmhouse

Before Kavita Mankikar, the CBI had earlier arrested Hemant Bhatt, who was also one of the authorised signatories of the Nirav Modi Group. It has also surface...

As Wall Street Boosts Rate Hike Bets, Fed Doubts Remain

Quarles, who was named to the central bank's board by President Donald Trump, said recently enacted tax changes and bipartisan budget deals could help susta...

OPEC, allies job is not done yet - Mr al-Mazroui

Speaking at an energy conference in London, Mazrouei, who holds the OPEC presidency this year, said the exporting group was not targeting a specific oil price b...

Florida legislature has options when it comes to strengthening gun laws

To every lawmaker out there: No longer can you take money from the NRA. Students in schools in Central Florida have staged walkouts Wednesday to raise awarene...

Fed officials: Stronger economy boosts chance for rate hikes

However, many Fed officials downplayed the impact from the market turbulence, saying they would stick to their forecast of stronger growth outlook and gradual...

Client Attempts to Withdraw $20 Trillion Due To Crypto-Exchange Glitch

The glitch happened last week and lasted for eighteen minutes. The glitch, which lasted for 18 minutes from 5:40 p.m.to 5:58 p.m. on February 16, affected Za...

Barclays delivers on dividend despite 2017 disappointment

Pretax profit, excluding litigation costs, rose slightly to £334 million, missing the average £570 million average estimate of 14 analysts compiled by the bank....

Provident Fund Interest Rate At Five-Year Low, Reduced To 8.55%

According to The Indian Express , Labour Ministry suggested that the decision came in accordance with the Finance Ministry's advise which indicates that the ra...

Wait, McDonald's is Releasing a Szechuan Sauce Podcast Now?

It's available while supplies last, but hopefully it's around for a lot longer this time. We all have our Szechuan sauce-for some, it's a comic; for others it's...

Vipul Ambani, a senior official in Nirav Modi firm, arrested by CBI

The arrest came a day after the agency grilled Ambani in connection to the Rs 11,400 crore financial scandal involving the Punjab National Bank (PNB ). In the ...

US Stocks Decline With Treasuries, Dollar Gains: Markets Wrap

Market participants probably interpreted the Fed minutes as leaving open the possibility that the central bank could raise interest rates four times this year...

Pacific cruise liner brawl sends guests fleeing to cabins

George Barkho (pictured left and right) was left the cruise ship with family. Vision of brawl on board the Carnival ship Legend. "About 1.30 p.m. (Friday), ...

Existing home sales drop as inventory remains depressed

After decline in December, the sales were 4.8 percent lower than a year ago and at the slowest pace since last September's 5.37 million units. The inventory o...

The Buzz About 13 Digit Mobile Number - True but Faintly Misinterpreted!

The government is planning a 13-digit number for SIM-based machine to machine (M2M) communication, which will be used for controlling various devices including ...

Relx (REL) Receives Buy Rating from Liberum Capital

Danaher Corp Del now has $68.00 billion valuation. The stock decreased 3.40% or GBX 104.5 during the last trading session, reaching GBX 2968. About 276,530 sh...

Dish Reports 2.2 Million Sling TV Subscribers

In terms of earnings per share, 11 analysts have a 0.62 EPS mean target for the quarter ending Mar-18, for the quarter ending Jun-18, 11 analysts have a 0.58 EP...