Here’s how the companies making headlines fared during Friday’s midday trade

Oil prices were expected to decrease for the second week in a row, but after unpredictable trading this week, they reached a floor of over $100 a barrel on Friday, with no obvious replacement for Russian barrels insight in a market already constrained by supply. After surging almost 9% on Thursday, Brent crude futures were […]
Italy, hosting G20, will call for tougher ‘gig economy’ rules

Italy will call for tougher rules governing ‘gig economy’ workers when it hosts labour ministers of the world’s biggest economies in the Group of 20 next week.