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General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co are using fast-payment programs set up with financial lenders to help cash-strapped small suppliers survive production shutdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a bright spotlight on weaknesses in many of the systems designed to protect Americans from risks. But with older people more susceptible to serious illness and death from the virus, the problems in our Medicare system that were evident pre-pandemic have come into especially sharp...

The millionaire named to lead Norway's massive sovereign fund will earn 6.65 million Norwegian crowns ($672,400) per year, the central bank said as it released his employment contract on Thursday.

Most Southeast Asian markets ended higher on Thursday, led by Indonesia, as optimism over economies reopening from coronavirus-induced lockdowns overshadowed concerns about flaring Sino-U.S. tensions over Hong Kong. China's parliament approved a decision earlier in the

* Same-sex couples hit by evictions due to lack of legal recourse

The death of globalisation and world-encompassing supply chains has been foretold so often it is hard to imagine it might actually be happening. Could Covid-19 be the blow that finally shatters them?

Switching from bulk service sector to retail is a steep learning curve for many companies

New focus on older people as ‘vulnerable’ has serious consequences for over-60s at work

Argument that diversifying or reshoring is necessary is easy to make but oversimplified