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New Zealand-based online-only stores recorded 7.9 per cent growth over the past quarter – well ahead of total sales growth at 0.1 per cent -which shows that New Zealanders are increasingly turning to the Internet and mobile devices to complete their shopping.

Japan restarted its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday morning under stricter safety standards that were introduced in July 2013 after the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

Hence the 4 percent fall in China’s yuan in the last two days will not change the course of business dynamics between the two nations majorly.

The move was carried out to make the yuan more market-oriented. Malaysia’s ringgit and the Indonesia rupiah plunged to their lowest levels in 17 years.

The latest jobs figures show the number of unemployed people in Wales has fallen to 90,000 for the period April-June.

Miner Glencore said it will cut its capital expenditure target for the year and book an impairment charge on the value of its assets in Chad as a result of falling oil prices, as it reported mixed first-half production.

A former army chief, Sisi led the army to oust Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, in a 2013 coup following protests against his rule.

The report on retail sales added to the fairly upbeat July employment and business confidence reports that suggest the U.S. economy was expanding steadily at the beginning of the third quarter.

Second-quarter revenue rose 28 percent to $3.26 billion, which not only fell below the $3.39 billion analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had forecast, but also represented its slowest quarterly revenue growth in three years. Investor confidence has been shaken, with the...

Trade’s contribution to growth was at its highest since the last quarter of 2011. That translates into an annualized rate of 1.8%, Destatis said. And the economy is also getting a boost from the European Central Bank’s quantitative-easing program, which has driven...

This new one has a 80mm extra wheelbase, is 95mm longer overall and 40mm wider than its predecessor, meaning it has more interior space as well. This update gives it a more athletic appearance despite the coupe being 3.7 inches longer.

Prosecutors in Frankfurt confirmed Thursday they had filed tax evasion charges against eight current and one former employee of Deutsche Bank over their alleged participation in a value-added tax fraud scheme.

Heading west, the daily non-stop flight, to be dubbed EK251, will take 17 hours and 35 minutes (despite what Google Maps thinks).

“But in the technology industry, where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant”, Larry Page, Google co-founder and now Alphabet CEO said in a blog post.

Vietnam allowed the nation’s currency, the dong, to trade in a wider range, adding flexibility which could insulate the country’s exporters from China’s moves, while the Malaysian ringgit and the Indonesian rupiah both fell to their lowest levels since the 1998...