This week: consumer prices, unemployment benefits, Walt Disney earnings

This week: consumer prices, unemployment benefits, Walt Disney earnings

The Labor Department issues its October report on consumer prices on Wednesday, The Walt Disney Co. releases its latest quarterly financial results before the bell on Thursday followed by the Labor Department’s latest report on weekly unemployment bene… A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week. INFLATION WATCH … Read more

Pakistan suspends train services in the country’s southwest after deadly train station bombing

Pakistan suspends train services in the country’s southwest after deadly train station bombing

QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistan’s railways suspended all train services on Monday to and from a restive southwestern province where a suicide bombing at a train station over the weekend killed 26 people, including soldiers and railway staff. The train services would be suspended for four days for security reasons, according to a statement from Pakistan … Read more

Mali detains top executive and 2 others from an Australian gold mining company over dispute

This week: consumer prices, unemployment benefits, Walt Disney earnings

YAOUNDE, Cameroon — The military junta in Mali has arrested the top executive and two other employees of Australia’s gold mining company Resolute Mining while they were visiting the country for talks over an unspecified dispute, the company said Monday. The three – including the chief executive Terence Holohan – were detained last Friday in … Read more

UN climate talks to focus on money to help poor nations cut carbon pollution

UN climate talks to focus on money to help poor nations cut carbon pollution

BAKU, Azerbaijan — A complex international two-week-long game of climate change poker is convening. The stakes? Just the fate of an ever-warming world. Curbing and coping with climate change’s worsening heat, floods, droughts and storms will cost trillions of dollars and poor nations just don’t have it, numerous reports and experts calculate. As United Nations … Read more