Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other gig economy companies scored a victory after a California appeals court upheld the current law classifying gig workers as independent contractors instead of employees.
HSBC Holdings Plc is planning to inject £2 billion ($2.4 billion) of liquidity into Silicon Valley Bank’s UK division, a move capping a frenzied weekend of talks that saw Europe’s largest lender take ownership of the stricken subsidiary.
A proxy firm has called on shareholders at Italy’s UniCredit SpA to vote against a proposed compensation package for Chief Executive Officer Andrea Orcel and to oppose the bank’s new incentive plan.
Emmanuel Macron faces parliamentary brinkmanship and protests this week over his plan to raise the retirement age, with the potential for a politically bruising outcome that would shape the French president’s capacity to keep pushing a pro-business agenda.
Jammed guns and refreezing runways are among the problems facing military forces that train in the Arctic, where climate change is causing temperatures to rise and fluctuate more dramatically.
When Judge James Boasberg is sworn in Friday as the new chief judge of the US District Court in Washington, he’ll suddenly be at the epicenter of federal investigations circling former President Donald Trump.
The UK is carrying out an “important” investigation into Chinese social media app TikTok, Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said, but he refused to be drawn on whether it would be banned from UK government mobile devices.
An unexpected acceleration in India’s inflation in the last two months has reignited debate on data collection practices that ignore changes in the economy and rely on obsolete items for collecting prices.
Credit Suisse Group AG said it found “material weaknesses” in its reporting and control procedures for the past two years, after questions from US regulators last week.
The UK labor market showed some signs of cooling as wage growth slowed for the first time in more than a year.
