In Sweden and Norway, Domino’s is struggling. Domino’s Pizza Group, the UK-based franchise of American chain Domino’s Pizza Inc., operates restaurants in Iceland, Norway and Sweden. In October 2019, Domino’s Pizza Group announced it would exit those countries. On a call with analysts, Domino’s Pizza Group CEO David Wild said “whilst these markets are attractive, we are not the best owners of the businesses.” Does Domino’s have a future in the Nordic countries?

Yamaha has warned people not to try and squeeze inside musical instrument cases after reports former Nissan Motor boss Carlos Ghosn fled Japan concealed inside in one. “We won’t mention the reason, but there have been many tweets about climbing inside large musical instrument cases. Japanese authorities have vowed to pursue him and have issued an international wanted notice for him and his wife Carole. Earlier reports, which Ghosn has dismissed, said he was carried out of his home in Tokyo in a

CEO Of Netflix, Reed Hastings, attends the red carpet during the Netflix presentation party at the Invernadero del Palacio de Cristal de la Arganzuela on April 4, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Tuesday:” Apple stock has outperformed the broader market in anticipation of a strong 5G upgrade cycle. We are more optimistic on 5G upgrade based on our latest smartphone survey data (22% citing 5G as a factor, though still lagging performance related factors).” Atlan

Ray McGuire, vice chairman of Citigroup Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, April 29, 2019. Ray McGuire, a longtime Citigroup executive, is being encouraged by allies in the business community to run for mayor of New York. Danielle Romero-Apsilos, a spokeswoman for Citi, did not deny that McGuire has privately talked about running for mayor. “Mr. McGuire is solely focused on his role at Citi; talk about him

Ari Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer, says the discount retail space looks weak here, but there is one name he’d bet on. It doesn’t really stand out for us. “The stock has really just traded sideways for the last five months and that’s helped work off some previously overbought conditions. It’s all impulse buys, but I wonder if we’re not starting to see impulse buys online,” Schlossberg said during the same segment. Five Below on Monday guided for fourth-quarter sales of $685 mill

Presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on Tuesday that she would begin to forgive student loan debt on the first day of her administration, using legal tools that would allow her to bypass Congress. That bill, introduced with Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., would forgive up to $50,000 in student debt for individuals with household incomes under $100,000. But Warren wrote in her plan on Tuesday that the U.S. Education Department already has authority to cancel student debt, “and we can’t a

GaudiLab | iStock | Getty ImagesYou might sometimes receive spam text messages on your iPhone. But Apple has a trick that sorts those messages outside of your main iMessage inbox so that they’re a little less annoying. Your spam messages might look like this:Spam message on an iPhone. The feature isn’t new, but I didn’t know about it until a colleague asked me how to block spam messages this morning. Now, when you receive a text message from someone you don’t know, they’ll appear in a separate t

Analysts who missed the rally have tried to explain away why they were wrong on Tesla’s stock. Yet their conclusion was that there was “no change to our stock views,” expecting Tesla shares will fall nearly 60% in the year ahead. While optimists doubled down, even those analysts caught in the middle of the bull and bear fight tried to explain missing the rally. Tesla’s stock has rallied more than 100% in the past three months, boosted by record quarterly deliveries and the opening of a new facto

Citigroup reported Tuesday quarterly results that easily beat analyst expectations, driven by strong fixed-income trading revenues along with growing sales from the bank’s consumer business. The bank said the strong results reflect a recovery from the fourth quarter of 2018 along with “strong performance, particularly in rates and spread products.” That strong result, however, was slightly offset by a 23% decline in equity trading as the derivatives environment becomes “more challenging,” Citi s

“We reject the characterization that Apple has not provided substantive assistance in the Pensacola investigation. Apple said it “produced a wide variety of information associated with the investigation” after the FBI’s initial request on Dec. 6. But unless the company agrees to provide a way for law enforcement to access encrypted devices, it seems clear Barr won’t be fully satisfied. When law enforcement requests our assistance, our teams work around the clock to provide them with the informat

Boeing’s new CEO Dave Calhoun had a challenging first day running the company — a debt downgrade warning and outcries from lawmakers over his potential bonus. The decade-long Boeing board member took the reins on Monday, tasked with cleaning up the company’s image, internal culture, relationship with regulators and airlines, as well as Boeing’s finances after two fatal crashes of its best-selling plane, the Boeing 737 Max. “We believe that this bonus would be unconscionable in the face of two tr

Bank of England doesn’t have much room to cut rates, strategist saysMark Oswald, global strategist and chief economist at ADM Investor Services International, discusses the U.K. economy.

The administration of President Donald Trump is planning to move an additional $7.2 billion of Pentagon funding to build a border wall, according to several news reports. The administration had already diverted money from Pentagon funds for counter-drug efforts and military construction in 2019, but the 2020 figures are higher. Trump made building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico a priority during his presidential campaign ahead of the 2016 election, accusing Mexico of “sending” criminal

Aircraft parts from the wreckage of a Boeing Co. 737-800 aircraft, operated by Ukraine International Airlines, which crashed shortly after takeoff lie on the ground near Shahedshahr, Iran, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Iran’s judiciary has arrested around 30 protesters who took to the streets after authorities admitted that a Ukrainian plane that crashed outside Tehran was accidentally hit by an Iranian missile, a spokesman said on Tuesday. “Around 30 people have been arrested for taking part in i

Oil prices could plummet toward $40 per barrel if the Iranian regime collapses, according to the chairman of an energy research institute. “For the oil market, it would mean that the likelihood of oil prices dropping towards $40 is very high,” he said on Tuesday. “Remember Iran could easily add 1.5 million barrels within a shortest period of time. Maybe even 2 million barrels, and that’s a lot of oil,” he said. “Bear in mind we have right now 6 million barrels of oil on the sidelines, 2 million

This picture shows a Dash 8 Q400 of Flybe airline during take-off on September 24, 2019 at the airport in Duesseldorf, western Germany. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered a heavy hint that his new Conservative administration will begrudgingly step in to help prevent the collapse of Europe’s biggest regional airline, Flybe. Flybe is the biggest operator of U.K. domestic flights and serves routes to 30 different airports in continental Europe. Its network serves more than half of all U.

Lusaka, Zambia Tom Cockrem | Getty ImagesZambia is already restructuring, renegotiating or refinancing its extensive Chinese project finance debt, and Chinese companies are playing hardball, according to new research. Given its spiraling debt profile, Zambia has been unable to tap into its foreign reserves to import power from the likes of South Africa and Mozambique. According to a recent report from EXX Africa, several road construction projects contracted to Chinese firms were suspended late

Getty ImagesAfter more than 18 months of sticking up for the Iran nuclear deal after the U.S. administration left it in May 2018, European Union signatories have triggered a dispute mechanism in the accord over Tehran’s suspension of compliance. The motion does not reimpose sanctions; rather, it appears to allow the E3 to officially “register our concerns” that Iran is not meeting its commitments under the deal. Still no sanctions”We do not accept the argument that Iran is entitled to reduce com

Total worldwide debt sat close to a record $253 trillion by the end of September, boosted mainly by higher borrowing by governments and non-financial corporates. This represented an increase from $250.9 trillion at the end of the second quarter of 2019. “Spurred by low interest rates and loose financial conditions, we estimate that total global debt will exceed $257 trillion in the first quarter of 2020, driven mainly by non-financial sector debt,” the IIF said in the report. The group is an ass

Winnow Solutions uses A.I. to help companies curb food wastage”Food is too valuable to waste,” says Marc Zornes from Winnow Solutions, a startup organization that uses artificial intelligence to help companies monitor and curb food wastage. He explains his firm’s business model and its growth plans.