Forget about high gas prices. It’s record-breaking diesel that America is now starting to fret about. Lawmakers and economists have turned a more critical eye to all-time-high diesel prices in recent weeks, which remain on a record-shattering streak even as oil and gas prices have cooled. Crude crude has pulled back from $100 a barrel,
Singapore’s government says it will raise the annual salaries of its ministers and other office holders, including its prime minister who is the highest paid political leader in the world. Lawrence Wong will see an increase of 1.4 million Singapore dollars ($1.1m; £818,000) in his annual pay package. He has said he will donate this
Former England captain Michael Vaughan has called a 43% ticket price increase for next year’s men’s Ashes Test at Edgbaston “really poor”. The Birmingham ground will host the third Test of the best-of-five series between England and Australia next summer, with ticket prices in the Hollies Stand – which holds almost 6,000 spectators – costing
New electric vehicle sales data released today by the Electric Vehicle Council shows a another great month for EV sales, led significantly by Tesla. The report features just Tesla and Polestar, with EV sales of other brands to arrive in the coming days when the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries publishes August VFACTS report. Combined,
UnitedHealth Group is contesting an Internal Revenue Service proposal to increase its taxable income over how it priced transactions with one of its foreign subsidiaries, a dispute the company disclosed in a quarterly filing in May and repeated in its August filing. The notices cover transactions between UnitedHealth and a foreign subsidiary from the 2017
Home Depot’s sales improved during its second quarter as customers focused on smaller projects during the summer months with the U.S. housing sector still mired in a slump. Revenue increased to $47.86 billion from $45.28 billion, edging out the $47.24 billion that Wall Street had expected, according to a survey by FactSet. Globally, sales at stores
