* Underlying profit increased by 1 pct to 70.1 million stg (2016 H1: 69.4 million stg), whilst absorbing 5.5 million stg of tier 2 bond costs * Statutory profit before tax reduced by 0.1 pct to 69.4 ...

With net assets of $19 billion, OPTrust invests and manages one of Canada's largest pension funds and administers the OPSEU Pension Plan, a defined benefit plan with ...

The government is mulling a 3-percent wage increase for public-sector corporations in 2016 as it tries to push state-run companies to set the pace for the country to switch to a wage peak system aimed ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Growth in developing East Asia and the Pacific is expected to remain resilient despite the slowdown in China and a gloomy global outlook, the World Bank said Monday. The U.S ...

BERLIN – Official data show that the German economy, Europe's biggest, grew by 1.9 percent last year. The figure released Thursday by the Federal Statistical Office was slightly better than Germany's ...

MADRID – Spain's prime minister says the country's economy is on track to grow 2.9 percent this year and expand an additional 2.9 percent in 2016. Mariano Rajoy gave the upbeat assessment a month ...

PARIS, Jan 25 (Reuters) -- French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen wants to win 8 percent of the booming Chinese car market by 2016, a senior executive said on Monday, as the group launched Peugeot's new ...

A top executive at two related Marietta insurance firms saw his total compensation grow 5.3 percent in 2016, a new document shows. Donegal Mutual formed Donegal Group, an insurance holding company ...

Florida employers cut 1,834 jobs in February, 67 percent more than 1,099 in the same month a year ago, Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Thursday. Since January, the state’s employers have cut 3,406 ...