TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Thursday as producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia locked horns over the need to extend record production cuts set in place in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind an oil …
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Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Thursday, helped by progress toward rolling out coronavirus vaccines and talk of reaching a compromise on new help for the U.S. economy. Shares rose in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney but fell in Shanghai.
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Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. will sell itself in a $1.7 billion deal that will see the bulk of the company split from its wealth management platform. The Overland Park-based company (NYSE: WDR) said Wednesday after the close of the market that it reached a …
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An advisory panel of the US Food and Drug Administration voted to reject approval of aducanumab, an injectable, monoclonal antibody that targets amyloid-beta, in Alzheimer’s disease. Experts said the drug failed to demonstrate efficacy and more research is …
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JCP&L gets approval to sell off its share in tainted plant, home to nation’s worst nuclear power disaster. Credit: (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File). File photo: Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Forty-one years after Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 partially melted …
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