Saudi Arabia's oil company Aramco gained 10% in its first moments on the stock market in a dramatic debut that held until closing and pushed its value up to 1.88 trillion dollars (£1.43 trillion), surpassing Apple as the largest listed company in the world.
Thousands of protesters marched through central Algiers on Wednesday to demand that a presidential election planned for Thursday be canceled. The demonstrators demanded that the vote be postponed until the entire ruling elite step down and the military quit politics. Algeria's political stalemate between the protest movement and a state increasingly dominated by the military...
France's prime minister has said the full retirement age will be increased for the country's youngest, but offered concessions in an ill-fated effort to calm a nationwide protest against pension reforms that critics say will erode the nation's way of life.
French prime minister Edouard Philippe has announced that the minimum retirement age will remain 62, but workers will have to work until 64 to get a full pension.
IN the small hours of this morning former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern took to a stage on the other side of the world to announce the results of an historic independence referendum.
The global banking sector has been experiencing a major shakeup lately, with banks cutting jobs and closing branches to save money. Boom Bust is joined by Bartlett Naylor, financial advocate at Public Citizen, to discuss the future of the online banking trend. He says there were about 80,000 bank branches in the US before the...
JD Sports shares have plunged after the company's largest investor sold holdings worth £177 million.
