LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks ran higher on Thursday following their slowest quarter in a year, as U.S. economic strength offset the return to strict COVID-19 lockdown measures in parts of Europe and elsewhere.FILE PHOTO: The front facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in New York City, U.S., March 29, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidU.S. President Joe Biden’s […]

As the curtain rises on another baseball season, it’s worth celebrating the fact that something we tend to take for granted every spring has, in fact, arrived. Going an additional three months without baseball, as we did last year, was not something any of us would like to repeat. (Hint, hint, MLB and MLB Players Association officials …) We’re coming […]

Houston Methodist Hospital is mandating COVID-19 vaccines for its 26,000 employees. Managers have until mid-April to get their first shot, otherwise they could be fired. The hospital said that the policy is legal under state and federal employment law. See more stories on Insider’s business page. A hospital in Houston is mandating vaccines for all its staff, saying they could […]

NFL power rankings, 2021 offseason's post-free agency edition (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Buccaneers (1): "We’re keeping the band together," per QB Tom Brady. "We're going for two," per head coach Bruce Arians, who kindly advises you not to use the Chiefs' (failed) "run it back" motto. Whether or not the Bucs do become the first team to repeat in 17 years, […]

The pace of the spread of COVID-19 has slowed across America. Increases in daily fatal and confirmed cases are about half what they were seven weeks ago. Nevertheless, 556,487 Americans have died, which is about 20% of the world’s total. Confirmed cases have reached 30,613,592, or about 25% of the global number. Hospitalizations, which had reached over 100,000 during the […]

Parents received good news Wednesday when Pfizer-BioNTech announced its  COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective in children 12 to 15 years old. The vaccine is currently authorized for use starting at age 16.  The company announced last week that it had begun testing in children under 12 years old. These trials are expected to take longer as younger children may need different doses than teens […]

This comes at a time when the group’s copper plant in Tamil Nadu remains shut for nearly three years, causing a Rs 5 crore loss every day. Vedanta Group is looking to set up a new copper smelter plant in the coastal region of the country at a cost of around Rs 10,000 crore. This comes at a time when […]

He was always “a private man”, says Georgina Beyer, who once slept in Sir Ron Brierley’s bed. “Oh not when he was in it, of course,” she laughs. Rather, it was a coincidence of a broken marriage and her step-father Colin Beyer flatting with Brierley in early 1970s Wellington. It illustrates the close proximity Beyer enjoyed to watch the creation […]

Japanese big manufacturers' sentiment improved to pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter and companies stepped up capital spending plans, suggesting the export-reliant economy was benefiting from a solid recovery in global demand. Confidence among big non-manufacturers also recovered from three months ago, underscoring the fading strains from the coronavirus pandemic, a central bank survey showed on Thursday. The data offers […]