For the first time in three months, the Nikkei Services Purchasing Managers’ Index, compiled by Markit, nudged above the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction, coming in at 50.8 in July.
Mary Jo White, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 24, 2015.
Off camera, Palmer’s next door neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, said she didn’t really know Walter Palmer but that his wife was a “great person'”.
San Francisco: Microsoft says it will offer more paid leave to new parents and increase other benefits for US employees, a day after Netflix announced generous new-parent benefits for its workers.
Whole Foods, which has been roiled with accusations that it grossly overcharged customers in its New York City locations, recently tried selling asparagus stalks in water for $6 a bottle.
Cleveland; Las Vegas; Akron, Ohio; and Orlando had higher percentages of underwater homeowners in the second quarter of 2015. That lags behind the country as a whole, where the percentage was 19.6 percent, up from 19 percent in the second quarter of 2014.
RSA is run by chief executive Stephen Hester, the former boss at Royal Bank of Scotland, who was hired to revive the insurer’s fortunes after it was hit by a series of profit warnings more than 18 months ago. The largest purchase announced this year was Ace Ltd.’s...
2K and Gearbox Software have announced that Battleborn, the new first-person shooter from the creators of Borderlands, will be available worldwide on February 9th 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC.
After a team of white hat hackers exploited a vulnerability through a Jeep Cherokee’s UConnect system that allowed them to remotely seize control of the auto, Fiat Chrysler announced a 1.4-million vehicle recall and a vow to fix the problem.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened a criminal investigation into business and accounting practices at Hampshire-based Quindell. Quindell said the SFO had informed it has opened an investigation into the company’s past business and accounting practices.