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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Savers held up two banks in Lebanon on Wednesday to demand access to their own deposits frozen in the country's paralysed financial system, underlining desperation among citizens un...

By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - There is trouble ahead for Britain's new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng: a marked shift in how British assets are behaving in markets points to growing unease about t...

(Reuters) -Comcast Corp and Johnson & Johnson became the latest U.S. companies to unveil share buybacks worth billions of dollars on Wednesday, ahead of a new tax on stock repurchases next year. Comca...

By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - The White House released new details on Wednesday on how it plans to invest more than $2 billion in the U.S. biotechnology sector as it hosts a meeting of government lea...

(Reuters) - Philip Morris International Inc said on Wednesday it had appointed two former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials to key positions at a time when tobacco companies have come ...

By David Shepardson and Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) - U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is hosting talks in Washington on Wednesday with freight railroad and union officials aimed at heading off a rail sh...

PARIS (Reuters) - A wildfire raging since Monday in southwestern France prompted authorities to evacuate an extra 500 people on Wednesday, bringing the total to over 1,000 in an area already hit this ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's SoftBank Group Corp is considering launching a third Vision Fund, likely using its own capital, and will decide on the matter in the coming months, the Wall Street Journal new...

PARIS (Reuters) -Air France on Wednesday announced it would raise salaries for all staff categories by a total of 5% in anticipation of wage talks due next year, and make a 1,000 euro bonus payment to...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's stock exchange will publish new draft rules within the next few weeks to make it easier for hard-tech companies to sell shares in the city, according to three sources...