Oil prices fell for a fourth day on Thursday on expectations the losses US President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered in Congressional elections this week may reduce the risk ​of further escalation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

The scale of the GOP losses, which Trump blamed on high oil prices, have turned even his vice president against the idea.

Oil dropped Wednesday, putting prices on track for their largest one-week decline since 2020.

Record Election Day diesel and gasoline prices ​helped push Americans toward Democrats in Tuesday's midterms, with voters citing the cost of living in their decisions, exit polls showed. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters,

Hundreds of garment factories were shut down this week as workers in the country, the world’s second-largest exporter of clothing, demonstrated for higher pay.

Garment workers staged fresh ⁠protests ⁠in Bangladesh on Thursday, forcing factories ⁠to suspend operations despite a wage board move to introduce a revised ​pay structure from December. The protests,

Police have clashed with garment workers demanding higher minimum wages in Bangladesh, where days of protests have disrupted an industry that employs about 4 million people

Garment workers in Bangladesh largely resumed work on Thursday after days of wage protests, although some factories remained closed and isolated demonstrations continued.She said she had been ready

Stocks soared on Wednesday, just hours after results showed a blue wave.

U.S. stocks are surging as investors react to a blue wave that puts Democrats in control of both chambers of Congress.

Stocks traded higher on Wednesday after Democrats took control of Congress and President Trump said he’ll accept the results.

Wall Street closed sharply higher today as Democrats’ sweeping midterm election victory eased political uncertainty and boosted risk appetite, though data center shares fell on fears of tighter AI regulation.

Binance detailed the findings in a report on how hackers accessed the company's wallets ahead of the October 29 theft of $6.3 billion in crypto.

A Binance engineer was reportedly tricked into installing malware on a work laptop, enabling suspected North Korean hackers to loot $6.3 billion from the exchange.

Binance said on Tuesday. The FBI on Saturday blamed TraderTraitor, a group of hackers linked to North Korea, for the theft of $6.3bn from Binance in the biggest heist on record. The attack came as advances in artificial intelligence have driven an increase in such hacks in crypto,

The hackers who stole billions of dollars in cryptocurrency from the Binance exchange spent months working on the theft and used both social engineering and novel malware in the process, the company said Tuesday.