MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian state prosecutors said they would back an effort to jail opposition politician Alexei Navalny for up to three and a half years at a court hearing on Tuesday, as the Kremlin said it would not heed U.S. complaints about his case.FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny takes part in a rally in Moscow, Russia, February […]

Slideshow ( 2 images )(Reuters) – U.S. economic growth will rebound to 4.6% in 2021 from a contraction of 3.5% in 2020, powered by a resumption of business activity and coronavirus rescue spending, but growth will taper off to below 2% by the end of the decade, the Congressional Budget Office said on Monday. The non-partisan budget referee said its […]

Iraq’s crude oil exports were nearly unchanged in January, meaning the nation may have failed to meet its pledge to cut overall output to the lowest level in six years. OPEC’s biggest producer after Saudi Arabia exported 3.24 million barrels a day in January, which compares with December’s figure of 3.27 million, according to Bloomberg tanker tracking data. That would […]

Mark Cuban said Wall Street Bets members are disrupting Wall Street’s old guard. The billionaire “Shark Tank” star said they’re applying lessons from crypto trading. “They want to change the game and kick their ass. Which they should and have every right to.” Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Day traders are shaking up the status quo by applying […]

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam has shut schools in 22 provinces ahead of the Lunar New Year “Tet” holiday and ended a ruling Communist Party congress early on Monday following the detection of a new cluster of coronavirus cases in northern areas last week.FILE PHOTO: Medical workers in protective suits stand outside a quarantined building amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak […]

ZURICH (Reuters) – Clariant Chairman Hariolf Kottmann, who hailed the arrival of Saudi Arabia’s SABIC as the chemical maker’s top shareholder three years ago, became a casualty on Monday of a deal to try to patch up relations between the two sides.FILE PHOTO: Chief Executive Hariolf Kottmann of the Swiss specialty-chemical company Clariant addresses a news conference in Zurich, Switzerland […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. unemployment rate hit a record low of 3.5% a year ago, but that bit of history comes with a footnote.FILE PHOTO: Veterans and military personnel discuss job opportunities at a military job fair in Sandy, Utah, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/George FreyIt arguably was not the best overall time for workers in recent decades. That […]