Venezuelan consumer prices rose 488,865 percent in the 12 months ending in September, Reuters reports, citing a member of the opposition-run congress. Daily inflation is now 4 percent, according to op ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
A new method of analyzing images from CT scans can predict which patients are at risk of a heart attack years before it occurs, Reuters reports. The technology, developed by teams at Oxford University ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-05
General Electric Co. ousted chief executive John Flannery in a surprise move, replacing him with outsider and board member Larry Culp, Reuters reports. The struggling energy, health and transportation ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
Shares of Tesla Inc. jumped by almost 18 percent on Monday as chief executive Elon Musk settled a lawsuit that had threatened to force him out and said a surge in third-quarter production had driven i ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday for game-changing discoveries about how to harness and manipulate the immune system to fi ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-02
A flotilla of small boats rescued all 47 passengers and crew from an Air Niugini flight that crashed into the sea short of the runway at an airport in the tiny South Pacific nation of Micronesia on Fr ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a new message for financial markets: watch the data on jobs, wages and inflation for signals on monetary policy – not the US central bank’s words or forecast ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-28
US President Donald Trump said he did not have a time frame for North Korea to denuclearize just as his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, plans to visit Pyongyang again next month to set up a second su ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
Facebook, Google and other tech firms have agreed a code of conduct to do more to tackle the spread of fake news amid concerns it can influence elections, Reuters reports, citing a statement from the ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates and left intact its plans to steadily tighten monetary policy, as it forecast that the US economy would enjoy at least three more years of growth, Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-27
With the Federal Reserve widely expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday, financial markets are focused on whether signs of an acceleration in US economic growth will prompt the central bank to r ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
US President Donald Trump’s top trade official said changing China’s economic policies to become more market-oriented “is not going to be easy” even with tariffs now in place on US$250 billion worth o ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
Dunkin’ Donuts is dropping the word "Donuts" from its name and rebranding itself as "Dunkin" in an effort to bring beverages and breakfast meals to the forefront of the restaurant chain’s menu. "The n ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
Pope Francis defended a landmark deal between the Vatican and China on the appointment of bishops, saying he, and not the Beijing government, will have the final say on who is named, Reuters reports. ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-26
OPEC leader Saudi Arabia and its biggest oil-producer ally outside the group, Russia, ruled out any immediate, additional increase in crude output, effectively rebuffing US President Donald Trump’s ca ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards vowed to exact “deadly and unforgettable” vengeance for an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, including 12 of their comrades, and Tehran accused Gulf ...More
EJ Insight2018-09-24
