Business Stories from November 7, 2020 (Change date)
-
Turkey replaces central bank head as lira sees record lowsNov 07, 2020 6:00 am - ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday dismissed the head of the country's central bank following a period of high inflation and record...
-
Air bag fragments kill Volvo driver, touching off recallNov 07, 2020 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Metal fragments from an exploding air bag inflator killed the driver of an older Volvo, touching off a U.S. recall of up to 54,000 cars, regulators said S...
-
Profit jumps 82% at Buffett's firm but virus hurts businessNov 07, 2020 6:00 am - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Warren Buffett's conglomerate reported an 82% jump in its third-quarter profit as the value of its investment portfolio soared, but Berkshire Hathaway...
-
China's October exports accelerate, boosted by US demandNov 07, 2020 6:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - China's export growth accelerated in October, boosting the total so far this year back above pre-coronavirus levels for the first time. Exports in October...
-
Will AI save us from coronavirus?Nov 07, 2020 5:25 am - Early this spring as the pandemic began accelerating, AJ Venkatakrishnan took genetic data from 10,967 samples of the novel coronavirus and fed it into a machine. The St...
-
In a pandemic, every day is bring-your-child-to-work dayNov 07, 2020 5:22 am - Years before "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" became a thing, my dad occasionally brought me to his office as the need arose. There was something a bit thrillin...
-
Waymo seeks to calm doubts about driverless cars with data troveNov 07, 2020 5:20 am - Autonomous vehicle developers have so far operated without shared industry standards for safety and with minimal oversight from state and federal governments. Waymo, say...
-
Inside the chaotic unraveling of Jack Ma's $35 billion IPONov 07, 2020 5:20 am - The midlevel bureaucrats left China's richest man waiting as they prepared for a meeting that would send shock waves across the financial world. It was Monday morning in...
-
Analysis: Uber's ballot victory doesn't fix gig economy's big problemNov 07, 2020 5:20 am - Uber Technologies and Lyft won a big victory on a state ballot measure that could have threatened their businesses by changing their relationship with workers. But this ...
-
Uber won its prized contractor status for drivers. Now what?Nov 07, 2020 5:18 am - In one fell swoop, Uber and Lyft on Tuesday fended off labor protections that were decades in the making, allowing the companies to keep compensating their drivers as in...
Showing 1-10 of 11
next