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Tasmania has been Australia's top performing state for the past year, but other jurisdictions are catching it up. Commonwealth Securities' quarterly State of the States analysis shows Tasmania leading the ...

The Australian economy is showing a marked rebound from its first recession in decades, but the improvement is ...

WASHINGTON—The economy's momentum has reversed in recent weeks with spikes in coronavirus cases that forced a series of ...

A blank-check firm backed by prominent investor Bill Foley has agreed to take Alight Solutions LLC, the U.S. ...

Silicon Valley is hoping a Biden administration will push back an impending wave of global regulation aimed at ...

WASHINGTON—Foreign direct investment flows worldwide plunged last year due to the pandemic, which caused severe economic disruptions and ...

The top five Western oil and gas companies sharply slowed the search for new fossil fuel resources last ...

UK department store Debenhams has sold its brands and websites to online fashion retailer boohoo group PLC, Debenhams' administrators ...

For the first time since 1983, when Anheuser-Busch used all of its ad time to introduce a beer ...

NEW YORK—U.S. refiners are girding for a painful slate of fourth-quarter earnings, reflecting the pressure of rising crude ...

Merck said it's stopping development of both of its COVID-19 vaccine candidates. The candidates in studies "were generally ...

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that seeks to increase purchases of products made in the ...

Australia's approval of its first COVID-19 vaccine will lift confidence and help fuel the country's economic recovery from ...

LONDON—Economic activity in the eurozone shrank markedly in January as stringent lockdowns to contain the coronavirus pandemic hit ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Jan. 22 unanimously approved Janet Yellen’s nomination as the first woman Treasury ...

President Joe Biden’s administration has temporarily suspended oil and gas permitting on federal lands and waters in the ...

WASHINGTON—The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits decreased modestly last week as the COVID-19 pandemic ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. manufacturing activity surged to its highest level in nearly 14 years in early January, but bottlenecks in ...

Amazon is seeking to block mail-in votes in an upcoming unionization vote. Workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, ...

If you had told Sophie Westlake this time last year that she would soon create a disinfectant to ...

ROME—The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of any users ...

Pfizer said Friday it will be shipping fewer CCP virus vaccine vials after finding an extra dose in ...

The Washington Post this week removed content from a profile of Vice President Kamala Harris. The 2019 profile ...

A sex trafficking victim has filed a lawsuit against Twitter in a U.S. district court in California, alleging ...

Commentary After one peels back the layers of sugarcoating, there are two thorny truths about environmental, social, and ...

Google on Friday pulled its trump card against the Australian government’s news media payment code, threatening to cut ...

Another 900,000 U.S. workers filed for state unemployment benefits last week, a slight drop from the week before ...