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Apple's (AAPL.O) European headquarters in Ireland was briefly evacuated on Monday while police searched the premises following a security alert that staff said had been completed and they had returned to work. Irish police, who were assisting in searches with...

WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging service, is dropping its token $1 a year subscription fee for consumers as it experiments with making businesses pay to send notifications to consumers, Chief Executive Jan Koum said on Monday. The seven-year-old company,...

British Airways owner IAG (ICAG.L) is holding talks on leasing additional A380s second hand because it believes the options it has to buy more of the Airbus superjumbo are too expensive, its chief executive said on Monday. The move is...

European fruit growers could be able to export apples and pears to the United States later this year, the EU executive said on Saturday, following the publication of new U.S. rules. European Union producers, hit by Russian sanctions against them...

China's gross domestic product (GDP) totaled more than $10 trillion in 2015 and the economy grew by around 7 percent, with the services sector accounting for half of GDP, Premier Li Keqiang said on Saturday. The premier also said that...

NEW YORK - In recent years, bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach has been outperforming his rival Bill Gross. He has even been dubbed the "Bond King" by the media - a title Gross has held for many years. Now, Gundlach...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 15, (THEWILL) –The Nigerian capital market has lost over $30bn from July 2014 to date, the Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Stock Exchange, Mr. Oscar Onyema, has revealed. Onyema disclosed this at the NSE 2015 Market Recap and...

The average price for a basket of crudes from OPEC producers fell to $25 a barrel on Thursday, the group said, even before unrestrained exports from Iran hit the market. Benchmark global oil prices took a fresh hit on Friday...

Citigroup Inc reported a massive jump in quarterly profit as a sharp drop in legal costs and gains from the disposal of unwanted assets more than made up for weak revenue from its core business. Chief Executive Michael Corbat has...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday that it was pulling the plug on its smallest store format, Walmart Express, and closing 269 locations globally, including 154 in the United States, in a restructuring that will affect 16,000 workers. Wal-Mart, the...