US drugstore group CVS Health has agreed to pay about $5bn to settle all outstanding lawsuits over its prescription of powerful opioid painkillers.It is the first settlement by a pharmacy...
The widening performance gap between public and private markets is a huge topic these days. Investors are often seen as the gormless dupes falling for the “return manipulation” of cunning...
As the tide goes out on a long era of low interest rates, no one can confidently predict where the next wave of financial market turmoil will spring from. And...
Dumisani Mahlangu sits in the cab of a dragline excavator, digging 40-tonne shovels of coal from an opencast mine outside Johannesburg. “Coal has made me what I am,” he says...
Britishvolt has secured a lifeline deal that will give the battery start-up enough money to last until early December, pulling the business back from the brink of bankruptcy. The group...
Telecoms group Veon is selling its Russian Beeline arm as it seeks to extricate itself from a business that has depressed its valuation since the outbreak of the war in...
GSK has raised its yearly profit and sales guidance for the second quarter in a row after beating analysts’ expectations for the three months to September.The drugmaker’s third-quarter sales rose...
The Federal Reserve is expected to continue its fight against the fastest inflation in 40 years on Wednesday by raising rates three-quarters of a percentage point for the fourth time...
The proportion of jobs offering remote working has dropped for the fifth month in a row as businesses accelerate their return to the office, new figures show.Just 12 percent of...
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