The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates to near zero on Sunday in another emergency move to help support the economy amid the fallout of the global coronavirus pandemic. Coordinating its action with ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-16
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in isolation for two weeks after his wife, Sophie, tested positive for coronavirus, Reuters reports. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau recently returned from Londo ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
Princess Cruises, the operator of two ocean liners that were quarantined after they became hotbeds for coronavirus infections, said it will suspend the voyages of all its 18 ships for two months, Reut ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced strict immigration curbs and a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Metro Manila, in what he called a “lockdown” of the national capital ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened the door to constitutional changes that would allow him to remain in power until 2036, Reuters reports. Putin, who in January unveiled a major shake- ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-11
IKEA on Tuesday started selling its products on Alibaba’s Chinese e-commerce platform Tmall, the first time the world’s biggest furniture retailer has sold through a third party in its 77-year history ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
Britain’s top royals came together on Monday at Westminster Abbey in their last public family gathering before Prince Harry and his wife Meghan set off on a new career path devoid of official duties. ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-10
Investments in cryptocurrency have remained broadly depressed through a prolonged "crypto winter" after 2018. While a growing number of crypto ventures and startups struggle for funding and survival, ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
Hundreds of thousands of women across Latin America’s biggest cities flocked to the streets for International Women’s Day on Sunday, with anger over inequality, femicide and strict abortion controls b ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
Oil fell by the most since 1991 on Monday after Saudi Arabia started a price war with Russia by slashing its selling prices and pledging to unleash its pent-up supply onto a market reeling from fallin ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
A British judge has decided that Dubai’s ruler ordered the abduction of two daughters and orchestrated a campaign of intimidation against his former wife, Reuters reports. Judge Andrew McFarlane said ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
Hong Kong has arranged four charter flights to bring back 533 of its residents from central China's Hubei province, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, about a month after countries around the wor ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
The United States said it is slashing the number of Chinese nationals permitted to work at the US offices of major Chinese state-owned media outlets to retaliate against Beijing’s “long-standing intim ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
