TOKYO (Reuters) -A Belarusian athlete who took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo after refusing her team’s orders to fly home from the Olympic Games will travel to Poland on Wednesday, a group of her supporters said. Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was granted a humanitarian visa by the Warsaw government. She had earlier refused to get on a flight home, […]

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. London (CNN Business)Want to buy a new coat without shelling out the entire cost upfront? For shoppers, that’s becoming an increasingly popular payment option — generating a windfall for the handful of companies that facilitate such services. […]

BERLIN (Reuters) -German retail sales increased much more than expected in June following an easing of COVID-19 restrictions, supporting hopes for a consumer-driven recovery in Europe’s largest economy over the summer months.FILE PHOTO: Christmas shoppers wear mask and fill Cologne’s main shopping street Hohe Strasse (High Street) during the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Cologne, Germany, 12, December, […]

FILE PHOTO: People queue during Black Friday sales in front of a Foot Locker shoe store, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Zurich, Switzerland November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann(Reuters) -Foot Locker Inc will buy two smaller shoe store chains for a total of about $1.1 billion in cash, the footwear retailer said on Monday. The company […]

FILE PHOTO: Christmas shoppers wear mask and fill Cologne’s main shopping street Hohe Strasse (High Street) during the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Cologne, Germany, 12, December, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang RattayBERLIN (Reuters) -German retail sales increased much more than expected in June following an easing of COVID-19 restrictions, supporting hopes for a consumer-driven recovery in Europe’s largest economy. The […]

LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar lurched lower on Monday, back towards the one-month lows hit last week when it became clear the Fed was in no hurry to tighten policy and policymakers broadly shared Chairman Jerome Powell’s view that rate rises were “a ways away”.FILE PHOTO: A picture illustration shows U.S. 100 dollar bank notes taken in Tokyo August 2, […]

A 31-year old entrepreneur from Sydney’s eastern surburbs has capped an extraordinary rise after agreeing to sell the payments firm he founded less than a decade ago, Afterpay, to US financial technology giant Square for $US29 billion ($39 billion). Nick Molnar, a graduate of Moriah College and Sydney University, developed the idea for Afterpay together with a neighbour in Rose […]

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from a factory during the sunset at Keihin industrial zone in Kawasaki, Japan, January 16, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s factory output growth picked up in July due to a stronger expansion of output and new orders, as manufacturers benefited from a continuing recovery of the coronavirus pandemic-hit global economy. The final au […]