Tag Archives: Business

CNN  —  This is it. The media defamation trial of the century is on the precipice of kicking off in Wilmington, Delaware, in just days. Jury selection in Dominion Voting Systems’ monster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit took place all of Thursday, with 300 potential jurors being summoned to court. Good …

CNN  —  When customers at Silicon Valley Bank rushed to withdraw billions of dollars last month, venture capitalist Arlan Hamilton stepped in to help some of the founders of color who panicked about losing access to payroll funds. As a Black woman with nearly 10 years of business experience, Hamilton …

Let’s kick off with the happy news that a judge has dismissed the silliest ever class action for L’Oreal . Let’s go back to last year when a plaintiff claimed that having ‘Paris’ on L’Oreal Paris products implied that everything was made in Paris rather than elsewhere and the use …

Hong Kong/Atlanta/London CNN  —  Oil prices spiked Monday after OPEC+ producers unexpectedly announced that they would cut output. Brent crude, the global benchmark, jumped 5.31% to $84.13 a barrel, while WTI, the US benchmark, rose 5.48% to $79.83. Both were the sharpest price rises in almost a year. The oil …

It is being reported that a minimum, Trump will be charged with 34 counts of falsifying business documents. Video: CNN: Trump is facing 34 counts of falsification of business documents. pic.twitter.com/toPsRXM7Ij — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 31, 2023 CNN reported, “I am told by my sources that this is …

Nigerian singer, Gabriel Oche Amanyi, popularly known as Terry G, has warned Nigerians comparing him to his controversial colleague, Portable to desist from such actions. Naija News recalls that Portable began to trend after his recent altercation with the Nigerian Police when he rejected an attempt to arrest him. In …

CNN  —  When EU lawmakers voted to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars in the bloc by 2035, it was a landmark victory for climate. In February, the European Parliament approved the law. All that was needed was a rubber stamp from the bloc’s political leaders. Then Germany …

Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 23, 2023 arrested 28 persons suspected to be “Yahoo-Yahoo Boys” in Ilorin, Kwara State.   A statement released by the antigraft agency says the arrest, which was effected at Mandate Area, Ilorin followed …

A representative for the New York State Department of Financial Services said on Tuesday that the closure of Signature Bank, the third US financial institution to fail in as few days, had “nothing to do with cryptocurrency,” according to Reuters. Tuesday night, Bloomberg reported that federal authorities were looking into …

Washington, DC CNN  —  Jim Stewart was getting ready to sell his home in East Palestine, Ohio, and retire. Then came the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on February 3, releasing toxic chemicals into the air and nearby water, and he fears crashing the value of his home. He …