The world could get its first trillionaire within 10 years

[ad_1] DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to…

Zelenskyy, Blinken, Israeli president and more will come to Davos to talk about global challenges

[ad_1] LONDON (AP) — More than 60 heads of state and government and hundreds of business leaders are coming to Switzerland to discuss the biggest global challenges during the World…

Biden stops by Pennsylvania stores to talk up his record on small business creation

[ad_1] EMMAUS, Pennsylvania (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday tried his hand at retail politics — stopping in a trio of Pennsylvania stores to stress the value of small…

French tourism businesses are wary of customers drying up as droughts worsen

[ad_1] SAINTE-CROIX du VERDON, France (AP) — At the pristine southern French lake of Sainte-Croix-du-Verdon, tourists in pedal boats and on white water rafts — and the businesses that welcome…

U.S. Auto Sales Bounced Back in 2023

[ad_1] Updated Jan. 3, 2024 11:49 am ET U.S. auto sales rebounded in 2023, boosted by pent-up demand and better availability on dealership lots.  But this year could prove more…

Western Anxiety About Chinese EVs Could Prove Self-Defeating

[ad_1] Dec. 31, 2023 11:01 pm ET China hawks have the upper hand in the political battle over electric vehicles. They should be wary of overplaying it. The rules for…

Storied US Steel to be acquired for more than $14 billion by Nippon Steel

[ad_1] U.S. Steel, the Pittsburgh steel producer that played a key role in the nation’s industrialization, is being acquired by Nippon Steel in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $14.1…

Hong Kong’s seafood businesses brace for a sales slump as Japan plans to discharge radioactive water

[ad_1] HONG KONG (AP) — As Tokyo plans to discharge treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, Japanese restaurant operator Sam Lam is busy finding substitutes for Japanese seafood that could…

Foreign companies are shifting investment out of China as confidence wanes, business group says

[ad_1] BEIJING (AP) — Foreign companies are shifting investments and their Asian headquarters out of China as confidence plunges following the expansion of an anti-spying law and other challenges, a…

The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends

[ad_1] TOMPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Rep. James Comer, a multimillionaire farmer, boasts of being one of the largest landholders near his rural Kentucky hometown, and he has meticulously documented nearly…