Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst outages on one of the busiest trading days of the year.As the Dow Jones Industrial Av
"The borders of Greece are the external borders of Europe. We will protect them... do not attempt to enter Greece illegally – you will be turned back."Greece's prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, ma
The organisation for Economic Cooperation and Growth predicts that the UK economy will slow down by 0.20% in 2020. This comes amid the worst recorded drop in European s
Italy's usually bustling piazzas have been deserted as tourists stay away. /AP The outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Italy – the largest outside Asia – may have struck a fatal blow to a
What’s a Corvette? To me, the formula is simple: Loads of power in an affordable package that can hold two golf bags. For the past 62 years, that meant putting the engine in the front and a stick shif
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re in for a treat, as we get to dig into
Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq have reversed course after a week of losses. The Dow was up 570.50 points to 25,979.86 and the Nasdaq was up 112.96 to 8680.33 near midday trading
At least 21 people were killed when a bus overturned in Eastern Cape Province on Monday morning, authorities said. The bus was travelling from Chebe to Butterworth when it went down the gravel road t
To many Chinese, "cooking a meal without rice" is like "making bricks without straw."Rice is by far China's most popular grain, served with nearly every meal. The grain has remained etched on China's
Armenia, the Dominican Republic, and the Czech Republic joined the list of countries reporting their first cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, while the worst-hit countries have been strengthening their ef
For a generation, Roya Sadat has been a voice for Afghan women in one of the world's worst places to be one.One of the first female filmmakers to make her name after th
Senior officials in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Sunday tried to calm market panic that the coronavirus could cause a global recession, saying the U.S. public had over-reacted and
Pete Buttigieg, who rose from relative obscurity as an Indiana mayor to a barrier-breaking, top-tier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, ended his cam
Editor's note: Matteo Giovannini is a finance professional at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Beijing and a member of the China Task Force at the Italian Ministry of Economic Develo
Greece said Sunday it has blocked nearly 10,000 migrants at its border with Turkey, which opened its gates to Europe as tensions mount over its deepening conflict in Sy
South Korean exports snapped a 14-month losing streak in February due to more working days this year compared to last, although evidence of disruptions from the coronavirus were reflected outside
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attends a rally in Philadelphia on May 18, 2019. Joe Biden on Saturday kicked off his running campaign for the 2020 presidential el