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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...

By Samuel Shen and Tom Westbrook SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's push to wean property developers from excessive borrowing is spilling over into loan losses at banks and pain in credit markets ...

(Reuters) - Partner Communications Company Ltd said on Thursday it has offered to purchase the business operations of Israeli telecoms firm Marathon 018 Xfone for 187 million shekels ($58.07 million)....

By Julie Zhu HONG KONG (Reuters) -JOYY Inc's top two shareholders, its Chairman David Li and Xiaomi founder Lei Jun, plan to take the Nasdaq-listed company private in a deal that could value it at up ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British businesses reported that 7% of their staff - equivalent to around 1.6 to 2.0 million people - were partly or wholly on furlough in early August, unchanged from late July, th...