Cote d’Ivoire is close to agreeing to an increase in the minimum price paid to cocoa farmers to 750 CFA...

ECONOMICS & FINANCE Jim Goldman, Assistant Professor of Financial Economics at University of Toronto Firms’ R&D activities and financiers’ information...

The pound surged and U.K. government bonds fell as the Bank of England said it sees scope for stimulus reduction...

US consumer prices are reported to have risen more than expected in August as a result of Hurricane Harvey, which...

Credit reporting company Equifax Inc. blamed a web server vulnerability in its open-source software, called Apache Struts, for the recent...

Nigeria’s Stanbic IBTC Bank said Thursday it will offer shareholders the option to receive scrip dividends in lieu of cash...

Apple Inc. unveiled its most important new iPhone for years to take on growing competition from Samsung Electronics Co., Google and...

By Noah Smith Economists have lately been rethinking free trade. They’re right to do so -- and not just because...

Nigeria’s Dangote Cement has officially communicated its interest in buying over South Africa’s largest cement company, PPC Group Limited. In...

Interswitch Ltd., a Nigeria-based payments-processing company, expects to complete its delayed dual listing in London and Lagos before the end...