Boris Johnson forced the resignation of his finance minister for refusing to toe the line, a sign the prime minister was tightening his control in a government reshuffle designed to deliver his vision ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated his confidence in the US economic outlook, even as he said he expected some drag “soon” from China’s new coronavirus epidemic, Reuters reports. “There ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-13
Concerned that big tech companies are unfairly engaging in potential anti-competitive behavior, the Federal Trade Commission has ordered Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Faceb ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-12
Last Thursday, China’s ambassador to Britain criticized its government for advising its tens of thousands of citizens in China to leave the country. “It was an overreaction that ignored World Health O ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
A four-day downpour across Australia’s east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
A Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about a new coronavirus died of the disease on Friday, prompting an outpouring of sorrow, Reuters reports. Li Wenliang, 34, died in the early hours of the ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-07
People are leaving and entering China’s Hubei province by foot over a bridge spanning the Yangtze river despite a virtual lockdown on vehicle traffic due to a coronavirus epidemic that has killed over ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-31
Facebook Inc. said growth would continue to slow as its business matured and it reported a surge in quarterly expenses, disappointing Wall Street expectations that the costs of improving privacy would ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-30