A blueprint of how the U.S. National Security Agency likely used weaknesses in commercially available software to gain access to the global system for transferring money between banks was shown by a review of the data, documents and computer files released by hackers, reported Reuters.  ...

With a view to shelving or restructuring them, review billions of dollars' worth of unfinished infrastructure and economic development projects has been ordered by Saudi Arabia's government to its ministries and agencies, reported Reuters citing government sources.   Reuters reported quoting...

Beaten-down sectors such as retail, apparel or biotech are being chosen in place of "Trump Trade" bets on financial and infrastructure stocks by some of the actively managed funds that have performed the best since the Nov. 8 presidential election.   Due to growing doubts the new...

By replacing traditional top-down manufacturing relationships with complex webs of alliances and acquisitions, the race to develop and exploit autonomous vehicle technology is reshaping the hierarchy of the automotive industry.   The rapid transition of self-driving vehicles from research...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Wednesday that though there is "deep uncertainty" about economic and policy developments, particularly in the United States, world trade is on track to expand by 2.4 percent this year.   While making a general appeal to resist protectionism, more...

Farmers in Iowa, US are stuffing storage bins with corns and risking potential crop damage from the elements than pay the exorbitant cost of storage elsewhere as well as selling the crops because prices have hit the rock bottom.   Years of bumper crops and low prices have overwhelmed storage...

75 year old Bill Hinshaw is a member of a dwindling community of IT veterans who specialize in a vintage programming language called COBOL and he first got into computer programming in the 1960s when computers took up entire rooms and programmers used punch cards.   Newer, more versatile...

Traditional supply dynamics have been upended and forecasts have been made far more polarized by the shale oil boom which has transformed the U.S. and global energy sector.   Warnings that huge spending cuts caused by a plunge in oil prices since 2014 would lead to a supply crunch in the...

Top U.S. chicken company Tyson Foods Inc and rival producers are turning to sanitizing wipes, bacteria-reducing fog and even oregano to keep birds healthy to meet increasing demand for meat raised without certain antibiotics.   In a part of a fight against the rise of dangerous...

As S&P 500 companies are set to report their first quarter of double-digit profit gains since 2014, U.S. investors are looking overseas for stronger earnings even though America First may be a main policy of the White House and fuel to the stock market rally.   With the S&P 500...

With the intention to fund an artificial intelligence institute at the University of Toronto, about C$200 million ($150 million) is being arranged for by the Canadian and Ontario governments who have teamed up with a group of businesses, project organizers said.   With the significant...