Beyond Meat has another high-profile fast-food partner – KFC – to help the faux meat maker tackle a plant-based substitute for a different major protein source: chicken.
Author: Agency Staff
US President Donald Trump said China has asked to restart trade talks, hours after Beijing’s top negotiator publicly called for calm in response to a weekend of tit-for-tat tariff increases that sent global stocks plunging.
Current and former central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, weren’t sure if Mark Carney’s idea for a virtual reserve currency is the answer, but they agree that the dollar’s dominance is a problem.
Apple’s reliance on China is looking increasingly like its biggest handicap, with the world’s most influential consumer electronics company shedding $44-billion of market value on Friday.
Eskom, struggling with more than R440-billion in debt, has said it will take as long as three to five years to comply with the government’s plan to split the company into three separate units.
Mark Carney has laid out a radical proposal for an overhaul of the global financial system that would eventually replace the dollar as a reserve currency with a libra-like virtual one.
Huawei Technologies expects US export restrictions to reduce annual revenue at its consumer devices business by about $10-billion.
Econet Wireless of Zimbabwe has put its media unit up for sale after saying earlier this month it would be closed because of a shortage of foreign currency in the country.
VMware has agreed to purchase two software companies on Thursday for almost $5-billion, expanding its reach in development tools and cybersecurity.
Apple is readying a clutch of new hardware for the coming weeks and months, including “Pro” iPhones, upgrades to iPads and its largest laptop in years.