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UPDATE 1:30 P.M. — According to Peoria Fire Battalion Chief Tom Sander, the fire Thursday at the apartment building was put out in approximately 25 minutes from alarm time. Sander said attack li...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Financial institutions in China including banks and insurers should do more to help struggling offline retail, accommodation, catering and trading firms in the wake of recent domes...

(Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc is nearing a deal to buy a controlling stake in storage facilities manager China Logistics Property Holdings Co, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce beat analysts' estimates for quarterly profit on Thursday, as it released reserves set aside for loan losses and saw higher volumes and fees in i...

By Jane Lanhee Lee LIVERMORE, Calif. (Reuters) - Silicon Valley has a new pitch to persuade small companies to automate: rent-a-robot. Better technology and the need to pay higher wages to humans have...

By Ann Saphir (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's highly anticipated speech to the Jackson Hole economic conference on Friday will likely offer few new hints about when the U.S. central ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss private bank Lombard Odier said it was cautiously optimistic for the remainder of 2021, after hiking net profit by 20% year-on-year in the first six months through June. "Thes...

By Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - Growth in China's home prices is expected to slow more than initially expected this year, as more cities implement curbs to stabilise their real estat...

(Reuters) - Australia's Crown Resorts Ltd said on Thursday it had appointed Ziggy Switkowski as chairman to succeed Helen Coonan as a broader inquiry that could see the casino operator lose its licenc...

By Lea Guedj PARIS (Reuters) - It looks like a bus that has taken a wrong turning, speeding down a slipway into the River Seine, scattering swans and prompting screams from the passengers. But when th...