Dow Jones closed above 18,000 for the first time ever
US stocks rallied on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing above 18,000 for the first time ever.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
Barnes & Noble buys back its Nook e-reader business
Barnes & Noble announced that it has agreed to buy back its Nook e-reader business. The company plans on splitting the business into a...
Canada October 0.3% GDP growth higher than expected
Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.3% in October, a much higher figure than most analysts had expected, after expanding by 0.4% in...
Keurig recalls 7 million coffee makers because of burn risk
Keurig Green Mountain Inc., a US manufacturer of coffee brewers for both home and commercial use, announced that it is recalling over 7 million...
What are the world’s 10 biggest banks?
There are two ways banks are measured for size when deciding on league tables – market capitalization or total assets.
Market capitalization, also known as...
Human bones weakened when hunter-gatherers switched to farming
Two studies suggest that during human evolution, our bones became weaker when we switched from being hunter-gatherers to farmers, about 12,000 years ago. Both...
Update 1: NASA’s NuSTAR takes stunning first solar portrait of the Sun
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has taken its first picture of the sun.
NuSTAR, the highest power X-ray telescope, has managed to produce the...
Encana sells Western Canadian Montney assets to KKR and Veresen for $412m
Encana Corporation says it is selling its natural gas pipeline and processing assets in northeast British Columbia to a new 50/50 limited partnership of New York’s...
Google unveils first real build of its self-driving vehicle prototype
On Monday Google revealed a fully functioning first real build of its self-driving vehicle prototype. The company says that it will be testing the...
UK economy grew by 2.6% annually, not 3%, official data showed
The British economy did not grow by 3% between Q3 2013 and Q3 2014, but by only 2.6%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...