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TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares of Toshiba Corp jumped 4% in early Tokyo trade on Friday on speculation that private equity firms could be lining up to take the embattled conglomerate private. Singapore-base...

By Leika Kihara and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has little to cheer about a weak yen, which reflects its deteriorating economic fundamentals and trade deficit, the country's former top ...

By Tina Bellon (Reuters) -Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law a minimum pay standard for Uber and Lyft drivers, making Washington the first U.S. state to implement earnings stan...

By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese business confidence soured in the first quarter, a quarterly central bank survey showed on Friday, as companies took a hit from supply ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Australian government on Friday appointed a woman as second in command at the country's central bank, the first female to hold the position in the bank's 62-year history and a li...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles police were on site and ready to arrest actor Will Smith at the Academy Awards on Sunday for slapping presenter Chris Rock, the producer of the Hol...

By Hussein Waaile CITY OF ORANGE, N.J. (Reuters) - Struggling with the rising cost of grains, aluminum and fuel due to inflation exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, New Jersey brewery Four Ci...

LONDON (Reuters) - The number of households in England spending at least 10% of their budget on energy bills, a share deemed to represent "fuel stress", will double on Friday to 5 million and will esc...

LONDON (Reuters) - A surge in demand for workers in Britain is showing some signs of stabilising, according to a survey published on Friday that may provide some comfort to the Bank of England as it w...

By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oreo cookie maker Mondelez International Inc said its plant in Trostyanets, a town in eastern Ukraine, has suffered "significant damage" because of military ac...