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However, earnings declined 10.8% year over year from $1.39 due to currency headwinds and lower sales.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrates World Food Day on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945, FAO sources said adding each year it is celebrated by more than 150 countries worldwide.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated Cuban troops could have been training in Russia and should have arrived in Syria on Russian planes. When contacted, neither the Pentagon nor various US intelligence agencies would confirm the report.

The Kroger Co. of Cincinnati, OH, announced Thursday, October 15, that its retail grocery stores would withdraw from sale unrefrigerated caramel apples that have been pierced with dipping sticks due to new scientific evidence that the product, if left unrefrigerated, may present...

Jefferies Group now has a hold rating on the stock. The ratio turned negative, as 47 funds sold all PNC Financial Services Group Inc shares owned while 357 reduced positions. 1,846,145 shares of the stock were exchanged. PNC Financial Services has a 52 week low of $76.69 and a 52...

Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange fell 0.79% at $5,273.25 a metric ton at the PM kerb close. The response of the global economy, particularly emerging markets, to a possible interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve and the effect of prolonged low commodities...

Speaking to the annual meeting of the worldwide Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Peru, Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) pointed out that the corrections implemented by the equity markets have had only a limited impact on the world’s...

Nike brand President Trevor Edwards said the company’s women’s business is expected to rise to $11 billion by 2020 from $5.7 billion this year, and its e-commerce business is expected to jump from about $1 billion this year to $7 billion in five years.

Carnival Cruise Line’s China operations will also utilize the services of the newly announced Carnival Corporation Shared Services Group based in Shanghai. “These offices will provide sales and marketing support to our travel partners whose customers not only wish to...

A Japanese government source said the committee that made the decision was made up of experts in document preservation, not in evaluating the veracity of historical content.

Nowotny’s comments contrast with remarks three weeks ago when he said core inflation signals an “equilibrium” in prices, and suggests that policy makers are becoming more concerned about the outlook for the economy.

In a press release on Tuesday (Oct 13), SIA says it has 63 A350-900s on firm order and seven of them will be upgraded to an ultra-long-range variant.

The Fed didn’t raise its key interest rate in September because USA inflation hadn’t picked up and the global economy had worsened.

Haley said solving that issue cut the number of people without access to clean water from their taps from 122,000 to 45,000. Haley said those numbers have declined as people are rotated out.

Stocks opened higher on Thursday following two days of losses as investors responded to a few positive earnings surprises.