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Amazon Introduces First-Ever Small Business Impact Report

Amazon has launched a new Small Business Impact Report, which highlights new details about the millions of small and medium-sized businesses...

US Convenience Stores Enjoy Profit Boom In 2017

US convenience stores have experienced the 15th year in a row of record in-store sales, and the fourth successive year of more than $10 billion in pretax p...

Wheat Rallies As Cold Weather Threatens US Crops

US wheat futures jumped more than 1% on 9 April to hit a three-week high, as cold weather threatens to cause further harm to crops already damaged by dry w...

Colgate-Palmolive Unveils Smart Toothbrush

Colgate-Palmolive has introduced the first app-enabled electronic toothbrush with artificial intelligence. The new Colgate ‘Smart Electronic Tooth...

Trump’s Trade Policies Could Cost Italy €1.4 Billion

US president Donald Trump’s 'America First' trade policy, if fully implemented, could see the Italian economy losing up to €1.4 billion in expor...

Hurricane Harvey Causes Damage To Texas Farms, Grain Silos

Texas farmers are assessing damage caused by Hurricane Harvey after it slammed into the coast, knocking over grain storage tanks and damaging cotton crops....

US Retail Industry Records Slight Job Decrease In July

The US retail industry saw employment declining slightly in July, with a decrease of approximately 1,700 jobs from June, according to statistics from...

UK-US Talks Put Trade-Chief Fox Among The Chickens

UK Trade Secretary Liam Fox was in Washington hunting for a trade deal, and despite the enthusiastic endorsement over Twitter by US President Donald Trump,...