Bloomberg With a flat fee of $70 for trips into Manhattan and a guaranteed stream of passengers, a ride to and from New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport is one of the more lucrative journeys for the city’s cab drivers. But federal prosecutors say two 48-year-old Queens men found another way to profit from the crowd of taxis ...

  Bloomberg Canadian retail sales edged lower in November after higher gasoline prices boosted spending in October. Receipts for retailers dropped 0.5% last month, according to an advance estimate by Statistics Canada. That erased some of the 1.4% growth in October — the largest increase in five months that was led higher by sales at gas stations and supermarkets. The ...

Bloomberg Africa has the potential to produce $1.06 trillion worth of green hydrogen a year by 2035, allowing it to export the fuel and boost local industry, according to a study backed by the European Investment Bank (EIB). By harnessing the world’s best solar energy resource a number of countries on the continent could produce the fuel, which is made ...