Thyssenkrupp accepts CEO Hiesinger’s resignation
Thyssenkrupp said on Friday its supervisory board had agreed to Chief Executive Heinrich Hiesinger’s request to terminate his contract.
Thyssenkrupp said on Friday its supervisory board had agreed to Chief Executive Heinrich Hiesinger’s request to terminate his contract.
U.S. stock index futures pared losses to trade slightly higher on Friday after data showed U.S. job growth increased more than expected in June as manufacturers stepped up hiring, while steady wage gains pointed to moderate inflation pressures.
Since March 2018, U.S. stock markets have been facing severe volatility primarily due to imposition of various tariffs by the U.S. government and related trade conflict. …read more […]
U.S. job growth increased more than expected in June as manufacturers stepped up hiring, but steady wage gains pointed to moderate inflation pressures that should keep the Federal Reserve on a path of gradual interest rate increases.
U.S. stock index futures dipped on Friday after the United States and China slapped tit-for-tat duties on $34 billion worth of each other’s imports, triggering what Beijing called the “largest-scale trade war.”
The United States and China slapped tit-for-tat duties on $34 billion worth of each other’s imports on Friday, with Beijing accusing Washington of triggering the “largest-scale trade war” as the world’s two biggest economies sharply escalated their conflict.
Oil slipped below $77 a barrel on Friday, under pressure from higher Saudi production and trade tensions between the United States and China, despite support from oil supply disruptions.
The dollar fell on Friday as the United States and China slapped tariffs on the other’s imports, but a muted reaction in currency markets suggested the escalation had largely been priced in by investors focusing on a U.S. jobs report due later in the day.
Airbus said on Friday it was optimistic it could sign a first export contract for its troubled multi-nation A400M military transport plane this year, and expressed growing confidence about prospects for European defense cooperation.
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Ford Motor’s China slump intensified, with vehicle sales tumbling 38 percent in June and the automaker recording its worst ever first-half, as buyers shunned its aging models that are awaiting overhauls and flocked to rivals.
Six months of wrangling over trade tariffs with the United States has wiped out about a fifth of China’s stock market value and driven its currency down sharply. But those moves may have just been a downpayment on what is yet to come.
U.S. stock index futures dipped on Friday after the United States and China slapped tariffs on each other’s exports worth $34 billion, triggering what Beijing called the “largest-scale trade war.”
Airbus is over the worst on engine delays that have hampered deliveries of its A320neo passenger jet, with the number of semi-finished and undelivered planes beginning to come down, its planemaking chief said on Friday.
Stocks rose and the euro climbed to a three-week peak as the imposition of tariffs by the United States and China on billions of dollars of trade was absorbed calmly by markets on Friday, though concerns about the conflict escalating capped appetite for risk.
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