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Talk of student loan forgiveness has borrowers looking forward to 2021. But many already benefited from some unprecedented events in 2020:

Oil prices fell on Wednesday on a surprise gain in crude oil inventories in the United States and on persistent investor worries about demand for fuel being squeezed amid tighter lockdowns in Europe to counter the coronavirus pandemic.

The Bank of Japan will tap $6 billion in cash from a government account in a rare arrangement to ensure it has enough ammunition to combat any market disruptions caused by a recent resurgence in coronavirus infections.

Monarch butterflies deserve federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, President Donald Trump's administration said on Tuesday, but the blackandorange insects must wait in line behind 161 other species facing more imminent threats.

The SP Group alleged that there was interference by the stakeholder trustee directors in the running of the Tata Sons, the act, which is best left for the board of directors.

The rollout of vaccines this month to combat the coronavirus pandemic will not quickly reverse the destruction wrought on global oil demand, International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Tuesday.

The expression of interest proposes 51 per cent stake under employees and the rest 49 per cent with Interups. Employees from multiple departments come together for the consortium.

The government has substantially sweetened the sale terms for Air India. It has offered for sale its 100% stake in AI and AI Express — instead of 76% in the first attempt — and the entire 50% it owns in ground handling joint venture AI-SATS.

The coronavirus outbreak has crushed many restaurants and forced those that have survived to become more creative. Its not just about deliveries and al fresco dining. Or about the use of services like Grubhub and DoorDash, whose stock jumped in its first...

Federal prosecutors in Brazil filed a civil lawsuit against Danish shipping company Maersk and former executives representing the firm for alleged corruption involving shipping contracts with staterun oil firm Petrobras, they said on Friday.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday sued Sequential Brands Group Inc, accusing the brand management company of deceiving investors by failing to write down its goodwill fast enough after its stock price fell.

MetLife is selling its home and auto insurance business to Farmers Group for $3.94 billion, the insurers said Friday.

The Bank of England took steps on Friday to keep banks lending through 2021 as Britain grapples with the COVID19 pandemic and braces for any market disruption from a big change in the UK's trading relationship with the European Union.

For nearly three decades, two currencies have circulated in Cuba’s state-run economy: the peso and the convertible peso (CUC), pegged to the dollar.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he will recommend that his successor next year consider selling to a third party the $700 million emergency government loan made to trucking company YRC Worldwide at a profit to taxpayers.

Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal on Thursday said it will give local U.S. advertisers access to buy more digital and streaming TV advertising inventory and introduce the ability to target those ads to consumers by their region, as the media company looks to ga...