LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV on Thursday accused EU competition regulators of over-reaching their powers and acting as a supranational tax authority for the bloc when they ruled against its tax deal with Luxembourg three years ago.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – German industrial gases company Linde and U.S. peer Praxair have offered concessions in a bid to address EU antitrust concerns and secure approval for their merger.
SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese oil buyers will keep taking crude from the United States through September, but plan to reduce future purchases to avoid a likely import tariff amid a trade spat between the world’s two largest economies, multiple industry sources said.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The demographic trend is no secret: the populations of the United States and other major industrial countries are getting older, and fast. That means workforces are aging too, but employers are doing surprisingly little to prepare to meet the challenges or adapt to employees’ needs.
VIENNA (Reuters) – OPEC’s leader Saudi Arabia and Russia were trying on Thursday to convince fellow oil producers to raise output from July to meet rising global demand, with Iran still signaling it would support only a modest increase in supply.
LONDON (Reuters) – Simmering trade and political tensions weighed on European and world shares on Thursday, while oil prices were under pressure ahead of an OPEC meeting that could boost the global supply of crude.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s Truck & Bus division plans an initial public offering in summer 2019 and could raise more than 6 billion euros ($6.9 billion) by listing a stake of around 25 percent, the division’s chief executive told Manager Magazin.
The five heavyweight stocks also powered the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) to a record high and helped the broader S&P 500 (.SPX) shrug off concerns over tariffs between the United States and China. Trade war worries have limited the benchmark S&P 500’s gain to about 3.5 percent this year, but the FAANG group, whose businesses are largely immune to trade and tariffs, has surged 10 times in this period. “We’re seeing a big question mark over global trade … and whenever you see the market get in trouble, it’s always important to look for leadership and isolate strength,” said …read more […]
(Reuters) – Starbucks Corp has reported a sudden slowdown in China growth just weeks after trumpeting rapid expansion in the country, citing a drop-off in unapproved third-party delivery services whose bulk orders had been clogging up its cafes.
PARIS (Reuters) – A leading French industrialist has urged France and Britain to preserve co-operation in the defense industry despite Britain’s departure from the European Union next year.
BEIJING/CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. producers of pork, already saddled with duties enacted in an earlier round of the escalating trade dispute with China, are bracing for further pain after Beijing hit the products with additional tariffs due to come into effect next month.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Shares crept higher in most major markets on Thursday as a lull in the Sino-U.S. trade tussle and talk of more stimulus in China helped calm nerves, though the nagging trade tensions caused Chinese shares to slip, dragging other Asian markets lower.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German luxury carmaker Daimler cut its 2018 profit forecast, blaming a trade war between China and the United States and stricter pollution targets, sparking fears of a wave of earnings downgrades across the industry.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s commerce ministry on Thursday accused the United States of being “capricious” over bilateral trade issues, and warned that the interests of U.S. workers and farmers ultimately will be hurt by Washington’s penchant for brandishing “big sticks”.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. investors expect banks and other financial institutions to announce large returns of capital to shareholders after the Federal Reserve publishes the first set of results from its annual “stress test” late Thursday.
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