Euro zone governments may need to provide more fiscal and monetary support than initially expected because of the effects of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.

Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani, two of the world's richest men, face a turning point in a battle for preeminence in India's booming, nearly trillion-dollar retail market.

It's been a rough year for Black-owned small businesses in the United States, and the latest surge in coronavirus cases suggests a festive season without much celebration.

The Trump administration on Wednesday granted ByteDance a new seven-day extension of a divestiture order that had directed the Chinese company to sell its TikTok short video-sharing app, according to a court filing.

France will require online technology giants to pay a new "digital tax" on their 2020 earnings, the finance ministry said Wednesday, despite Washington's warning that it could retaliate with new tariffs on French imports.

Shares of Ozon Holdings Plc soared more than 40% in their debut on Tuesday, after the Russian online retailer raised nearly $1 billion in its upsized initial public offering.

Participants -- from the CFDA and PVH, to designers Gabriela Hearst and Anyango Mpinga -- will contribute to the month-long sustainability-focused event led by Kerry Bannigan's The Conscious Fashion Campaign.

British retail sales have fallen by the most since June during this month's lockdown across the bulk of the country, a survey showed on Tuesday.

Once the preserve of gamers, virtual reality (VR) has been seized on by the financial sector as a way of enlivening home working for isolated executives and replicating real-world sales, networking or training events.

Snapchat on Monday unveiled a new curated short-form video feed in a stepped up challenge to social media rivals like TikTok.

Amirshahi will lead internal and external communications across the enterprise, as well as Macy’s cause work, and will help drive alignment across business strategy, transformation, colleague and culture initiatives. 

Italy on Monday signed a partnership with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to build a virtual store for Italian products, in a move aimed at boosting business-to-business (B2B) exports amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Total shopper numbers across British retail destinations fell 55.4% in the week to Nov. 21 year-on-year, mainly reflecting the impact of a second full week of lockdown, market researcher Springboard said on Monday.

China's move to draft rules aimed at preventing monopolistic behaviour by internet platforms is "timely and necessary", Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang said on Monday.

Even as retailers lay off hundreds of thousands of workers globally in response to the pandemic, they are seeking to capitalise on a consumer rush online.

London stocks inched higher on Friday as upbeat retail sales data, the prospect of easing coronavirus restrictions and hopes for a vaccine set the benchmark indexes on course for their third straight week of gains.