by Asma Al-Ghabiri | Oct 11, 2017 | Business
Jeddah- Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Entertainment vowed to provide some 200,000 job opportunities and to contribute 133 billion dollars to the annual national income by 2030. In May 2016, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz ordered the formation of the authority...
by Mark Whitehouse | Mar 14, 2017 | Opinion
Has the presidential election of Donald Trump reawakened the animal spirits in the US economy, giving businesses more confidence to create jobs? Judging from the latest data, it may have — particularly if you’re a miner, a machinist or a construction...
by NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and BILL VLASIC | Jan 21, 2017 | Business
Donald J. Trump won’t be sworn in until Friday but big business has already thrown him a veritable inaugural ball. A series of blue-chip companies, among them Ford, Lockheed Martin, Amazon and Sprint, have all announced plans in recent weeks to hire and invest in the...
by Neal Boudette | Nov 26, 2016 | Business
New York- Judging from a couple of Twitter messages by President-elect Donald J. Trump, he had scored a hard-won victory for American autoworkers by persuading Ford Motor to keep a Lincoln plant in Louisville, Ky., rather than move it to Mexico. The reality proved...
by Peter Goodman | Oct 7, 2016 | Business
Rotterdam, the Netherlands — For as long as ships have ventured across water, laborers like Patrick Duijzers have tied their fortunes to trade. He is a longshoreman here at Europe’s largest port. His wages put him solidly in the Dutch middle class: He has earned...